“After just a few minutes, I lifted my head from his lap, wiped my lips, and knew we’d made a mistake. Over the next few years, I would see Jay again, as I became close with his then business partner Damon Dash. We never mentioned our Malibu melee and acted as if it never happened. My cousin Chuck would be livid.
This was pre-Yoncé, of course, but the fact is that a Becky is a Becky [the name given to sidechicks by Beyoncé], and I was the Becky for many men…”
On Dating Method Man Before and During His Marriage:
“I [..] thought back to my 7-year relationship with another well known rapper and member of the celebrated Wu Tang Clan, Clifford Smith, known better by the world as Method Man — known to me as Bizkit. We were already a year into our romance before he called me with the news — he was getting married.
Well, I never knew about her or their children, or anything about his life back in New York. All I knew was our life in Los Angeles and the memories we’d created in our own little world.
I loved him, as a person, as a friend, as my lover, and with that love, I warmed his cold feet over the phone and soothed his doubts and fears about marriage.
After all their years together, after giving him children, she deserved to be his wife.
And for the next six years … I would be his Becky.”
On The Differences Between Being a “Becky” vs Being a “Beyoncé”:
“I have been the other woman and I have been the wife. As the other woman, I have had more privileges than the wife, knowing all the secrets, the lies and” – read more on the next page.