Rev Run Says Women Can Learn A Lot from Beyonce on Relationships & Dating

By: Taren Vaughan

Rev Run and Tyrese‘s new book has arrived. And as we all know, Rev Run and Tyrese are two celebrities that use their Twitter accounts quite often to tweet out relationship advice to their followers, along with other things that they feel very passionate about. And while some times all of their efforts don’t receive a round of applause as their messages don’t always come out the way that they intend them to, Rev and Tyrese seem to feel that they can hang with the best of them when it comes to dishing out relationship advice to the ladies as Comedian Steve Harvey has thought of himself to be a creditable source for the job as he released two books, schooling women on how to act like ladies yet think like men at the same time. After seeing the success that Steve Harvey had with his books, Rev Run and Tyrese thought to take their own stab at it and joined together to write their own book titled ‘Manology: Secrets of Your Man’s Mind Revealed’. The two sat down with The Hollywood Reporter and discussed the concept behind their book and shared their personal opinions about women and relationships. When asked the question of what is the biggest mistake that women tend to make earlier on in relationships, Tyrese says that the one thing women need not to do when they first meet a man is talk excessively and put all of their business out there for him to know:

“They talk too much. It’s simple: ladies, I love you to death, but shut up. Stop telling random guys that you meet all your business. You don’t know what’s gonna happen in this particular relationship: he might be sexy, tall, charming and charismatic. But all of the drama – dysfunction from your childhood, all of the abusive relationships, being cheated on and lied to, going into details about what didn’t work from your relationships in the past – becomes too much information. You look at that as, I’m supposed to be sitting here and talking and getting to know this man, [which] includes me telling him all my business. Like, shut it up already!…So what ends up happening, is I got one more person with all my secrets, all of my business, and I don’t really know if I’m gonna be with him. You’re trying to emotionally hook him in, and all he wants to do is have sex with you, if that’s the case. So just keep it simple, have fun, laugh, enjoy yourself, but just shut up! I know that sounds harsh as hell, but stop talking so much when you first meet people.”

Rev Run came from a different angle and says that women should continue to work hard while giving a man attention at the same time, praising Beyoncé for doing a great job of that, keeping her focus on her career while still giving attention to her now husband Jay-Z:

“I like the way Beyonce and Jay-Z played out: they came together, but I believe in my mind, Beyonce stayed on her game. She stayed dancing, making her videos, she kept it moving; she gave him attention, but she gave her career a lot of attention too. … So for me, stay focused. In the Bible, the book of Ruth talks about Ruth and Boaz. I talk about this in the book, that Ruth was out in the field, doing her thing, and when King Boaz came to town, all of the women were like, “Oh my god, Boaz is here!” She just, “I acknowledge he’s a big tall, handsome man, yeah. But I got work to do and I’m not playing it like I don’t notice him, but definitely gotta finish up my job.” And he took note of her, and this young lady captured the king by staying on her job. Sometimes, you have to just – not to a point where he thinks, oh she’s trying to act like she doesn’t notice me. No, that’s too much; you do that, then you’ll lose him completely. But at least stay on your grind of what you were doing. Love yourself first before you invite somebody else into your world to love with you. Don’t get too caught up in going from not knowing a person to giving all your energy to them.”

And in reference to Rev Run’s comments about Beyoncé, in her HBO Documentary that aired last night, Beyoncé revealed that she talked to Jay-Z over the phone for over a year as friends before they went on their very first date, an interesting piece of info that a lot of people were unaware of.

What’s your take on Rev Run and Tyrese’s comments?