Monie Love
, Monie Love
Coming to the U.S. a British import via the Hip Hop movement, Monie Love found herself amidst the cream of the crop within the rap community. Forming allegiances with the likes of De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest and Queen Latifah, which were all solidified by recording a song with each of the mentioned, Monie sealed her place as the British Hip Hop Ambassador, with the spitfire rap flow. After enjoying success as a recording artist, and being recognized with 2 Grammy nominations, Monie ventured into the world of radio, starting out in NY at Hot 97 where she could be heard as part of the line up of radio personalities 9yrs running. Since leaving Hot 97,Monie went on to do morning radio with Hip Hop radio personality Ed Lover at Power 1051 also in NY. When the opportunity arose to do her own morning show, Monie, eager to continue moving to new heights, took that position, which brought her to the Philly Tri State area. With a grand run in mornings in Philly, plus a quite controversial exit from where you heard her last, Monie landed on the Flagship for hip Hop radio in Philly, Power 99 fm. Still not ready to stop striving towards higher heights, Monie moved her family to Miami, joined the classic artist lineup that grace the Tom Joyner family events and cruises, and partnered up with the prominent Miami socialites to create events in South Beach catering to music lovers young and old new and classic. With all of this, Monie is still able to create a Cook Book, which embraces the Non Chef, and allows all to develop courage in the kitchen, with easy to follow steps in creating classic comfort foods to entertain at home. Needless to say Monie has managed to maintain her love of motherhood and life in all its aspects and glory.
Monie, coming from a Jamaican background with parents who saw to it that complete knowledge of ancestry and African history was prevalent in the household, recently joined the ranks of artist/activists to form SANKOFA Social Justice Organization, lead by Harry Belafonte.
As an 'Artivist' as Monie likes to refer to herself, Monie travels both nationally and internationally to participate in speaking engagements connected with social awareness and it's marriage to the artistic community across the board. Monie recently sat on a panel for Emancipation Day in DC with Chuck D and MC Hammer for Centric TV.
You can hear 'The Icon' Monie Love every Saturday 6pm on Sirius XM radio with her show Ladies First that is now approaching it's 7th year running on the satellite network. Monie travels and performs both as a solo artist and also as part of Classic Hip Hop performance collective THE ALUMNI along side fellow artists Kwame, Dana Dane, Special Ed and Chubb Rock. You can also catch Monie DJing on the road at an array of events from corporate to Metro City Nightlife in a city near you.
Monie is currently Curator In Chief of SHEmovement.com the worldwide portal for all things Women in Hip Hop related covering all elements of Hip Hop culture from a woman's perspective.
In addition to all of this, Monie Love is now the career mom with a total of four children ranging in age from 23,17,11 with the youngest coming in at 6yrs old.
With all this said, she still finds time to enjoy the little things in life, and wraps herself up in motherhood and all that it entails, as she considers having her 'Fab Four' as she calls them, being the richest experience of her life!
In a wild turn of events, Miami Heat star Dwayne Wade’s ex-wife Siovaughn was arrested over the weekend after refusing to return her sons to Dwayne’s custody in time for Father’s Day.
Dwyane Wade has temporary full custody of his sons Zaire and Zion. Their mother, Siohvaughn, was given visitation rights. But this past weekend, she allegedly did not return the boys in accordance with the court order.
Chicago’s Cook County Sheriff’s spokesman Frank Bilecki told The AP that Siohvaughn Funches-Wade was charged with misdemeanor charges–two counts of attempted child abduction, two counts of unlawful visitation interference and one count of resisting arrest this weekend. Apparently she did not bring the boys to Dwyane’s sister in Chicago on Saturday at the agreed upon 12p time so that they could make a 3p flight to Miami in time for Father’s Day.
Dwyane’s sister called the Sheriff’s office to check on the home when Sioh would not answer calls after several hours. The filing states that Siohvaughn attempted to leave the home with one of the boys when the Sheriff’s department showed up.
Another woman, Nadgee Alarcon, was also inside the home and was charged with resisting arrest. And after Dwyane charted a private jet to get his boys to him on Sunday, his eldest son told him that the Alarcon woman “smacked him in the head.”
Huff Post also reports that Siohvaughn was admitted to a hospital later Saturday night for possible asthma attack.
All of this drama led to Dwyane’s lawyer, James Pritikin, filing an emergency motion in court today (Tuesday) to suspend Sioh’s visitation rights. A hearing has been set in regards to Siohvaighn, whom Dwyane divorced in 2012, for June 26th, the same day as Game 7 if necessary.
Dwyane said in his motion:
“Once again, S.L. has used our minor children as the proverbial pawns in this contentious dissolution of marriage action,” Wade wrote in the filing, using initials to protect identities but referring to his ex-wife. “This court must take action to protect our minor children from further exposure to the present environment S.L. creates while they are in her care and preventing S.L. from exercising her parenting time in a manner that is harmful to our children.
“The minor children have been subjected to great deal of drama/trauma as a result of S.L.’s conduct.”
He didn’t seem to let it affect his game Sunday night or last night as he and the Heat beat the Thunder for both.
Reports say Siohvaughn posted her $10K bail and has a hearing for her own charges in August.
(Source: TheYBF)
