: Earlier this week, MediaTakeOut.com told you that rapper Juvenile failed to attend the funeral services of his 4 year old daughter Jelani - who was brutally murdered. And that the same night of the funeral, the New Orleans rapper performed at a concert in Augusta, GA. Well now Juvenile's people are offering an explanation as to why Juvenile did the concert.
According to reports, Juvenile is claiming that Saturday night's concert was scheduled before Jelani's death. And that it would have been difficult for him legally to get out of his commitment to perform.
But Juvie made sure the concert wasn't done in vain. According to one of MediaTakeOut.com's sources in the area - concert promoters told the public that a portion of the proceeds from the concert would go to a "Jelani Memorial Fund."
Jelani, her mother Joy Deleston, and sister Micaiah, 11, were shot and killed on February 28, allegedly by Deleston's 17-year-old son, Anthony Tyrone Terrell Jr. Terrell has been arrested and charged with three counts of murder and three counts of aggravated assault. He is currently being held in a DeKalb County prison.
YEAH RIGHT - ITS CLEAR THAT HE HAD NO RELATIONSHIP WITH THAT CHILD AND HE WAS JUST PAYING CHILD SUPPORT BECAUSE THE COURT ORDERED HIM TOO!!! KEEP IT REAL!!! NOT TO DISRESPECT THE DEAD BUT THE LIL GIRLS MOM WAS THE JUMP OFF AND SHE TRIED TO PUT THE BABY ON SOMEONE ELSE WHICH IS WHY THEY LIL GIRL GOT SOMEONE ELSES LAST NAME. JUVE WAS ONLY PAYING SUPPORT BECAUSE THEY MADE HIM AFTER THEY FOUND OUT SHE DID NOT BELONG TO THE OTHER DUDE!!!!
First off, let me say that I do not know Juve, his family, or his true intentions. But here's my whole thing:
What is the memorial fund supposed to help? Usually those types of things are set in place for the surviving family. BUT, in this case, the mother and the other sister were killed as well. The brothers in jail for doin it. So.....who gets the profits from this "Fund"????
Just seems strange to me. *shrug*
He is just plain ole WRONG.
And this PR spin is not going to help.
His PR people would have said this from the beginning if it were true. When it first came out that he didn't attend. In fact, We would have seen a YOU TUBE video of him saying so on stage! H*ll, You tube has everything!
Lastly,
He should have attended the funeral - even if security - allowed him to sit on the front row. And then escorted him out first.
THIS IS YOUR CHILD.
There is no excuse for a Brotha - being this SORRY!
AND WE BUY HIS RECORDS...this fool has no credability. YOU TALK ABOUT VIOLENCE. and then when it shows up on your door step, and affects your people...you hide in a corner!
"MAN UP!"
His people are just trying to smooth things over. That's a good lie that they came up with, but not good enough. Because we all know that he could have rescheduled that concert. So he is just a liar, I would like to hear from Jelani's real family about the matter. Juvi is just scared of losing his fan base---sorry *** son of a bIAATCH!
Thats his explanation?? You can't be serious.. I dont care what legal problems I would have had to face. Blood means more than anything and a funeral only happens once.. ((Nothing would have kept me away))Regardless if he was apart of her life or not he should have been there to show his respect and compassion. I have lost all respect for him....he makes me sick.
Once again...HAS IT OCCURED TO ANYONE THAT HE WASN'T PERMITTED TO ATTEND THE FUNERAL?! Yes! He had to go to court to acknowledge that the child was his, and had to be put on child support...so with all that being said...whose family was letting him come to the funeral?
I wish my deadbeat, no money gettin, middle-aged in the club azz babydaddy would step a foot onto a cemetary plot of mine or my son's...my mother would pop him...right on the cemetary lawn. It'd be a wrap...it may be that the only way he could pay his respects was to have a concert in her honor...especially if the funeral consisted of the child and her mother and other sibling...
This is a sad and very unfortunate situation. God bless the grieving families.
But at the end of the day...we will never fully know what went down between Juvenile, his daughter, and baby mama. We're just outsiders relying on a third party story. Maybe he wasn't there for her. Maybe he was. Maybe the concert was the way he chose to grieve. Maybe he wasn't allowed at the funeral. We'll just never know. All we can do is speculate. So stop pointing fingers at who did or said what like you was there.
That Aint No Excuse, Thats his Daughter, the promoters or the people over the concert should have understood that it wasnt like he was backing out of the concert for any ole reason, I mean its good that he did the memorial fund but no something about that aint right! Or maybe he didnt have a relationship with his daughter because I dont care who you are if you really were close to your child or anyone for that matter you would want to pay that final respect..... but hey thats just me!
@luscious_vanilla I am so with you!!! I can't believe the comments that I am reading. People are sitting up at their computers passing judgement on this man like they're GOD. We don't know what pain that man is in and how is trying to deal with. Rather he was at their for his daughter, or not, is none of our *** business. The commentors on here are acting like he murdered that baby; and we all know he didn't. Someone on here said that people grieve differently - that is so true. When my grandfather died most, if not all, my family members cried and fell out. However, I didn't. And people wanted to know if I was okay and how I was handling it. And some even speculated that I didn't show any emotion because I didn't care...whatever. I was crying so hard inside that I couldn't even shed tears.
One day, the tragedy of Juv losing his daughter will probably hit so hard that he may attempt to take his own life (God forbid!). But that's just how sensitive the state of mind can be.
So don't any of you sit on your behinds talking trash about this man and how he's wrong for this/that. We're (you're) just reading this ***, HE'S LIVING IT!!
Peace out!!!!
N*gga should've been there, if he got money like that he could of took the losses of da show. It aint like Millions of people was gone be there. Even if they weren't tight, you pay your respects to YOUR child! You can handle it any way you want at a later date! He aint have to be all in da front wit reporters, or none of dat, he could've played da back if he had beef wit baby Mom's fam. No Excuse for not attending to me. Point Blank!
How do we know that he didn't have his own private ceremony or visitation for him and his side of the family? FYI: When my friend's sister was murdered(she was 9 months pregnant, the baby passed too), the family had a 'public' visitation/service, and then they had a private service'; only immediate family members knew the date and only immediate family (only her mother, sisters and father) attended.
Also one last note, when my uncle passed a while back; he had two services because our family is spread over in several states. He had a service for his children & family in NY, because about 50% of the fam lives in Queens, and then we arranged for the body to be flown to Chicago; where we were able to see him. The other family members were not present at the Chicago service (his wife, children, etc.)
We just don't know the whole story and I surely don't believe everything I read. I am pretty sure this man spent some final moments with his CHILD.
I'm not surprised he didn't go to the funeral. He NEVER wanted to be the child's father. Of course some of you will say then he should've used protection and you're right but that's after the fact.
Women should NEVER contemplate having a child for a man who doesn't love them. Too often SOME women choose a man to bare children for based on his perceived financial status. You may get the check but you'll be lucky to get the get the LOVE and ACCEPTANCE after the fact. If you're a hustler then be true to that and consider yourself the winner when you get the bread. Just don't try to put the man on a guilt trip to make yourself look better.
This "lady" had two prior children from two other men and was 35 when she decided to have unprotected *** with a B list rapper 8ys her junior. Not to mention she had a career in law enforcement. Where's the SHAME?!!! No wonder her life was such a ball of confusion. Some will suggest she failed to learn from her mistakes while ignoring the possibility that her character was lacking in many areas. How does a grown *** woman go to work with a big belly and no ring on her finger?
You can blame men all you want but YOUR body is YOUR responsibility. If a man didn't love you or respect you before a child don't expect him to feel that way about you or the child after the fact. It's not impossible but why roll the dice with something so serious? Oh that's right... the check. It always come down to the check.
There aren't enough lawsuits in God's creation to make me miss my child's funeral. He should have been there...no matter what. Yes, he can grieve in his own way, but that's your baby. Maybe he wasn't involved in his daughter's life; I don't know the whole story, but his excuse is LAME. God bless them all. There are a lot of people destroyed over this. This woman's family lost her AND 2 of her children. So sad and tragic.
Flag post HE WASN'T CLOSE WITH HER. SAD. THAT IS WHY WOMEN *** TRICK MEN INTO FATHERHOOD.
I disagree! unless the man was RAPED, he doesn't get tricked into fatherhood. You have ***, you risk conception. All the hoe s Juve's with (I'm sure) he knows he's gotta be on the lookout for the 'gold diggers'. Yes, they exist, but they don't TRICK the man. The man (and the woman) take that risk. Don't want it to happen? Get married or keep your zipper up!
@luscious_vanilla....I give a conditional ditto. It still seems so disrespectful of him...
@nimrod, I think you are right that the woman *** EXPECT Juve to be there, I'm sure her reasons for having the baby were less than lofty. So Juve didn't HAVE to be a part of that child's life, even though that's still irresponsible REGARDLESS of the "reasons" for conception (if there were any). He's still the father, and the baby was innocent in all this. THEY had *** with EACH OTHER. Coulda been protected, maybe the con dom broke. Who knows. Anyway, the blame is equal. Especially considering the violent way in which all of them died, he HAS to know how horrible that looks. You're in the spotlight, Juvie, a-list, b-list, c-list, whatever. Folks are watchin. So you GOT to do better than that....
Really??? A memorial fund for the baby??? BULLTSH*T!! She is dead and in the ground. And I'm sure her mother had some insurance since she had a job with benefits. That's just a sorry azz excuse, and I sincerely hope that no thinking, feeling individual would buy into it. Juvenile sucks, and I'm sure that the next time I hear his music I will be reminded of this and turn it off. He is so played.
I'M SORRY, BUT HE COULD NOT RESCHEDULE HIS CORNY *** CONCERT? HOW IS THERE GONNA BE A MEMORIAL FUND WHEN THE POOR CHIL HAS PASSED ON...THE MEMORIAL FUND IS FOR OTHER CHILDREN, BUT HIS CHILD DIED...WHETHER HE WAS CLOSE TO HER OR NOT, THAT WAS HIS BLOOD RUNNING THROUGH THAT LITTLE GIRLS VAINS...AND HE SHOULDA BEEN THERE GOD BLESS HER SOUL... WE HAVE TO STOP THE VIOLENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY. ALL WE DO IS GIVE EACH OTHER THE EVIL EYE, OR OUR BROTHERS READY TO FIGHT IF ONE LOOKS TO HARD AT THEM, OR STEPS ON THEIR SNEAKERS.WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE OUR CHILDREN KNOW NOTHING IS THAT BAD THAT YOU WOULD THINK OF KILLING YOUR MOTHER OR SIBLINGS.... FAMILY IS ALL A PERSON HAS, IF YOUR LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE ONE. POOR EXCUSE JUVENILE!!!
No could not have gotten out of the contract. There is no if someone in your fsmily dies clause. In any entertainment contracts. I have been to New Orleans many times before Katrina. I met him before. He is a good dude. I personally beleive that he did donate some money for his daughters memorial. Her mother's benefits dont cover memorial funds. Just the burial and funeral costs. If she had them covered. I highly doubt that 4 year old had an life insurance policy. Remember the mother and two of her children had to be burried. The memorial fund will more than likely be used for a scholarship or someting for other young black girls to further their education. I wonder how many people showed up to the funeral just to see if he was gonna come.
All yall talking bout he’s this and that for not going need to STFU already! ***, let that man breath you never know why he didn’t come and yall don’t know what he’s going thru, everybody don’t like funeral and don’t like to remember they folks in a casket so stop judging that man based on speculation and pray for him and his family.
1. juvie was wrong. POINT BLANK. 2. IM NOT GOD, and im not passing judgement. 3. but i will say this; karma is a ***. i think he should have went to the funeral, it was his child, close relationship or not. only reason i dont believe this is cause its comin from his p.r, i think we would think diffrently if he said it himself. but im gonnna wait, only because you know someone recorded the concert, so i want to see if he said anything about her/the killing. my real question is, do we still not know why her brother did it?
Let's reason this out. Funerals are usually at 10, 11, 12, 1....DURING THE DAY! Concerts usually start 8, 9, 10, 11....AT ***! Let's keep reasoning this out. It's about 2 hours between Atlanta and Augusta. Stay with me now. *scratching head* Looks like he pulled a story out his azz to conteract the bad publicity. BTW why does a child who's whole immediate family is dead need a memorial fund like right away?
AND AGAIN: A CONCERT IS A PLANNED EVENT...HIS NAME WAS NOT EVEN ON THE TICKET; THAT PROVES THAT HE DIDN'T HAVE NO *** BUSINESS BEING THERE, UNLESS HE WANTED TO. SO THAT'S WHERE THAT ***@ CHOSE TO BE INSTEAD OF BURYING HIS BELOVED DAUGHTER.UNLESS HE JUST KNEW THAT HIS DAUGHTER WAS GOING TO DIE AND HE WOULD BE DOING A SHOW ON THAT *** TO BENEFIT HER----EXACTLY; IT MAKES NO FREAKN SENSE!!!HE ANI'T $HIT,NEVER WAS $HIT, AND AIN'T GONNA BE $HIT-ATLEAST NOT IN MY BOOK---TRIFLING ***@!!!!!
Let me school ya'll on something else.(I used to work in promotions, so I know a little something.)Being that Juvenile is a "has been" and was not the "Main Event" , or even on the ticket for the concert, that broke a$$ed sorry piece of $hit may have walked out of there with $1000, if that...but he's your hero for so- called "remembering his daughter?" Gimmee a freakn break!!!!You idiots are killing me-ROTFLMAO..................If he wants to start a memorial, all he has to do is continue to add money for her child support dummy.He's gonna spend it anyway-*** FLUNKY!!!!
A "Memorial Concert" lets think about that...It couldn't have been a "MEMORIAL" concert because this was an event planned in ADVANCE, way before his daughter died. He did not know she was going to die so he did not do a "Memorial Concert". As for the "PROCEEDS" going to her memorial...who is this "money" going to???? his daughter is dead, so is her mom and sister-proceeds usually go to the victims family or children!!!!!!!!! Anywho- if Juvie &I was cool I could of gave him something better to say! Perhaps..."I just couldn't attend the service, because emotionally I wasn't ready" or even "Nobody knows what i'm feeling, and I had to keep my mind off of my kid because i'm breaking down" THEN AND ONLY THEN would we probably be saying: ooh wow, he's hurt, he has feelings, he's a f*ing human! NOPE don't believe him.....
@ SoulOfNesha and diamond_girl
Thank ya'll!! Glad to see there's some people who think logically on here instead of passing judgements like they were all up in the situation themselves.
Again I stress the fact that none of us really know what happened so we can't say who did, said, or shoulda done what.
God only know how he's coping with the situation at hand. So be a little sympathetic and take it easy on the man.
Instead, worry about spending time with ya'lls loved ones and don't take 1 second for granted. This story just further cements the fact that tomorrow isn't promised.
Similar happened to my nephew, my brothers son...his mom killed him then killed herself...my brother remained strong, did things that made people think he didnt care but I know my brother and it was his way of greiving....we all have our own ways so you cant really put anything on any one persons actions when you suffer a loss like that....Its hard to deal with but with time, you survive.
LIAR, LIAR PANTS ON FIRE!!!!!! The whole family is deceased, so who is this memorial fund money going to? KANYE WEST MAMA DIED, HE STOPPED HIS TOUR *** TO GO BURY HER AND PAY HIS LAST RESPECTS, THEN HE FINISHED HIS TOUR! AINT NO WAY A BUNCH OF GREEDY *** MANAGERS, PROMOTERS AND YES MEN GROUPIES, ABOUT TO TELL ME IT WOULD BE IN MY BEST INTREST TO GO ON WITH MY CONCERT OR FACE LEGAL TROUBLES FOR NOT SHOWING UP BECAUSE i WANT TO GO TO MY CHILDS FUNERAL! HELL NAW! The NEXT THING THEY WILL SEE IS MY BACKSIDE WALKING OUT THE DOOR, GOING TO CATCH MY PLANE TO MY BABYS FUNERAL! I DON'T BELIEVE HIM, AND YOU ALL THAT STILL BELIEVE THIS GHETTO *** HEARTLESS ***, ARE DUMB. YOU NEED TO START THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX AND STOP BELIEVEING EVERYTHING THAT PEOPLE TELL YOU! JUVENILE REALLY LOOKS LIKE A PUNK NOW, BECAUSE HE LET SOME PEOPLE PUNK HIM INTO DOING A CONCERT ON THE DAY OF HIS DAUGHTERS FUNERAL, CLAIMING LEGAL PROBLEMS IF HE DIDN'T SHOW UP. TRIFLIN DEADBEAT!
We all know that concerts are booked well in advance. So this were already booked and planned prior to the death of his child. There is no excuse for his behavior. As I stated before, he booked this concert qoute" for his daughter's memorial fund." unqoute. How in the hell he knew she would need a memorial fund set up? Secondly, who does the proceeds from this fund goes to now, since all are deceased. Answer..It goes to him, be cause he is the only living parent of the child. So he reap all the benefits, no one else. Let's talk real S/h/i/t. It just smells strange to me, from the moment it happened. My prayer's are for the souls of the deceased. Any man who is forced to prove his fathering of a child he knowingly father, is a replica of a man in my eye's. God bless their souls. As a paralegal, I been discoved loop holes in this case.
That's a bunch of BS and I'm tired of people saying that people grieve in their own way. He would have came out a lot better just not showing up and offering no explanation to anyone but God. But no, he does a concert...I like Juve but it was probably a concert at a *** club or small venue. That wasn't one of his boys that got killed; that was his child and whether he was in her life or not he should have been there...end of story...sorry bastid.
There is no excuse for not going to your child's funeral. Forget about any legal problems that would occur if you didn't perform; this was your daughter's funeral. You are trifling, selfish, and you are a sorry excuse for a person. Your name Juvenile fits you perfectly because you're not a real man. I don't see how you can live with yourself.
everyone grieves in their own manner. i have a relative that did not attend their own sister's funeral but she did stop by and do her hair before the viewing. i do not know about his relationship with his child but i am not going to pass judgement because i do not know all of the facts. i do not see any reports of him deciding to do a concert the day of her funeral but i see other reports. there could be bad blood between him and her family i don't know. maybe he held his own vigil i don't know. only juvenile knows what's really going on and ultimately he is the only one whom has to deal with this.
The funeral for the 4-year-old daughter of rap star Juvenile, was held in South Carolina, Saturday with a reported 500 attendants. But out of all the mourners one person was noticeably missing…. Juvenile.
According to TMZ.com, a spokesman for Juvenile, real name Terius Gray, explained that the rap star decided to skip the funeral to avoid media attention that would divert attention from mourning and celebrating the life of his daughter.
Jelani was found dead Thursday, alongside her mother 39-year-old mother Joy Deleston, and 11-year-old sister Micaiah Alique. Police say the *** was Deleston’s 17-year-old son, Anthony Tyrone Terrell Jr., who was prohibited from coming to the funeral. All three females were mourned together on Saturday.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Terrell implicated himself in the killings, going so far as to tell police where he stashed the gun. Terrell, a *** at Central Gwinnett High School, was charged with three counts of murder and three counts of aggravated assault and is being held at DeKalb County Jail.
Sexy yoyo, I feel you. 1 More thing made alot of sense, too. But getudoem, why are you on here? The same comment was posted under the story about Floyd and Chili. Are you trying to prove a point, that you "date rich men?" Whatever. Anyways, true indeed, everyone does grieve differently. But I'm sure he had it in his mind that he wasn't attending. It was known he wasn't an active part of his daughter's life. Yeh, he may be hurt, but he's not torn up about it. That concert could have EASILY been cancelled if he wanted it to be, as we all know death is an automatic excuse. But this is something HE'LL have to deal with.
One must know everyone does not deal with pain the same way to o a show on the day of his little queen child maybe being on stage is the only way to release his pain, I think to see his child in a casket he may have lost it to the point to where as he would have hurt himself such as self- murder who would know, he lost two women of his the child and the child mother one would have to have a lot of heart and very, very bold to try to live a good life after all of this, Juevy would need a whole lot of support during the aftermath!!!
I hope ya'll don't believe that ***. As I said before and I'll say it again. Even my 6 yr old could tell that Juve wanted NO part of the baby's mom or the daughter or he wouldn't have been forced to pay child support. His PR people are just tryin to do damage control cuz they know how bad this *** looks. His career is basically already dead and his PR people don't want him to lose whatever little bit of fans he has left. I agree both of them were wrong for not using protection. I'm tired of men making excuses when things do go right with the baby's momma. As a man you are still responsible to take care of that child regardless, that's why you need to wrap yo *** up. And I still say Juve is a straight BIATCH for not being at the funeral. I bet if it was one of his HOMIES he'd been on the front row of the funeral and made a rap bout losing his homie. No one is judgin him, just tellin the truth. It is what is. He's a LOSER!!!
I didn't know that they all died and I didn't know that they were killed by her 17 year old son... what a disgrace. God rest their souls.
As for Juvenile, I ain't trying to hear it. That's an excuse he's making to try and excuse his actions. You can make a memorial or benefit fund for someone after their death, after you pay your respects and put it towards a charity or start a scholarship. I don't care what anyone says, he should have been there at his daughter's funeral.
FOR THE ONES THAT SAID ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE; OR LEAVE HIM ALONE; YOU ARE RIGHT, ONLY GOD'S JUDGMENT COUNTS.... INMAGINE IF YOUR CHILD DIES AND THE OTHER PARENT PARENT DIDN'T SHOW UP TO THE FUNERAL. HOW WOULD YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT PARENT????? THIS GUY IS UNREAL, AND HE'S OUT PARTYING AS IF NOTHING HAPPEN?? IT'S ALL ABOUT RESPECT. I THINK HE'S A LOSER!!!!!
