By: Amanda Anderson-Niles
We already told you earlier that Rihanna’s hairstyle at this year’s American Music Awards made just as many headlines as her receiving the show’s first ever Icon Award, and now it appears that the trend continues. While there’s been an influx of memes about the interesting choice of a hairstyle, now a female rapper’s former manager is claiming that the superstar actually stole the look.
Trumaine Ferguson is the former manager to Patwa, a Jamaican American female rapper. The artist’s former manager has reached out to the YBF and tells the blog that Rihanna completely stole Patwa’s signature doobie wrap hairstyle for her AMAs look. Ferguson claims Patwa has been rocking the look for years and even wore the hairstyle to a meeting with Roc Nation in 2010 but music executives told Patwa the look was too “hood” to work. Needless to say she never got signed to Roc Nation. Ferguson says in a statement:
Fast forward to 11/24/13 and who do I see grace my flat screen while sitting in my modest one bedroom apartment wearing a doobie wrap with jeweled pins at the AMA’s. Roc nations own RiRi. I honestly felt violated. You see during 2011 Patwa and I crossed paths with Rihanna at a Roc Nation event. Rihanna, who on that evening was wearing a hairstyle that she “borrowed” from Cassie, complimented the jeweled pin wrap said it looked nice and even inquired as to who did it? We of course were flattered out of our socks and felt almost validated. Two years later it appears middle America is ready and Rihanna really liked what she saw. By no means did we invent the doobie wrap or name. However prior to the AMA’s no one had attempted to wear the doobie as a hairstyle in public. No one!!!!!! I just find it very insulting that something we brought to those people was too “ghetto”. But now Rihanna can accept awards while proudly displaying it. I am really hurt by this and wanted to scream.
Here’s the video Ferguson claims “inspired” Rihanna:
What do you think? Did Rihanna steal the look or is this just a petty way to get publicity for an up and coming artist?
This girl needs to have a seat. People have wrapper their hair forever. She didn’t invent anything. Stop using Rih’s name to help your dusty a-s career.
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Sigh…this is a pretty desperate way to get attention.
Agreed. And we aren’t even Navy. LOL.
And no one will remember her name tomorrow, meanwhile Rihanna has been on top for years. These females just can’t stand it.
This isn’t the kind of thing you brag about starting first. And hasn’t wrapped their hair before. She didn’t start anything. And I’m not even a Rihanna fan.
Very petty! And yes this was just a lazy way to get some publicity. That Rihanna reign will not let up but who’s going to even be checking for this girl next week? Exactly!
Who? Oh that’s right NOBODY. People need to stop using Rihanna’s name for a come up.
Seriously? This is dumb. We’ve been wrapping our hair forever.
Wearing your hair in a doobie wrap in a music video and for an awards show isn’t anything to beef over. Both of them look crazy walking out the house like that.
Thank you
Stupidest thing I’ve heard all day. No really.
My mama has wrapped her hair since the sixties. Girl bye.
Patwa may have started it, but Rihanna has made women all over feel confident about stepping out the house with a dobbie wrap. No lie I saw some women going to work that way today. So Patwa, you ain’t got nothing on Rihanna. That’s why you never got signed to Roc Nation but she did. You ain’t It boo. Sorry!
The devil is a liar….women will not start walking out of their house with that ratchet bed head style on their heads….I rebuke you in the name of the most high God……
What? This is beyond dumb! Who doesn’t wrap their hair man!!!!!! This will not help her career anyway.
Another bitter artist mad Rihanna has achieved more than they ever will in just 8 years. Next.
I don’t understand why some people do this. Patwa is trying to get on. Why would you start beef with someone who has already made it? Wy burn bridges with all of Rihanna’s fans for two days of attention on the blogs? Her manager is stupid.
Girl bye.. The former manager of this Patwa character needs to seat down and fast. People wear the hair in a wrap all the time in public. check every dominican salon in the hood, everyone that walks out have their hair in a wrap… I can’t with this foolishness. FYI this is nothing to brag about
People been wearing their hair wrapped for centuries going to the store,mall or etc please and if they call that a style OMFG what has the world come too LOFL
I’ve seen chicks been stepping outside with their hair wrapped like this for years. Before I knew what it was, I actually thought it was a hairstyle..Anyway, I see where she’s coming from as an artist- they play you like your idea or style isn’t cool, then next thing you know a bigger name artist is rocking your sh**. Well that’s what the major labels and artists do. Steal from the little fish (songs, lyrics, ideas, costumes, hairstyles, etc.) to keep their name hot.. Sorry boo, it happens to the best of them..