After dropping off of the map for a few years, the St. Louis rapper Chingy has resurfaced and wants to clear the air on what really happened.
Back in 2010, a transsexual named Sidney Starr, who was looking for 15 minutes of fame, took to the media to say that she and Chingy had a secret homie-lover-friends undercover relationship, which set the hip hop world ablaze. Two years later, Sidney resurfaced to say that not only did she lie about her relationship with Chingy, but that he didn't even know she was a transsexual when they met at a show in Chicago. Unfortunately, by then, the damage was done and Chingy's career had already taken a hit.
Speaking on the matter in a recent interview, Chingy has opened up about the false accusations, and explains the aftermath, which included him losing a record deal and tons of bad publicity.
Read his side of the story below;
"I remember that day we had that show when me and Ludacris had that show in Chicago. The promoter had some girl dancers on stage that were dressed in body paint just for promotion, promoting whatever he wanted them to promote.
And one, who I thought was a young lady, came up to me that wanted a picture, I just took a picture. I thought she was a fan. I thought it was a young lady who was a fan. She seemed pretty cool. I took the picture and that was it.
"Two years after that I see something come out of some bullcrap about this transsexual person was in a relationship with me. I was just like everybody else. I didn't have a clue as to what this person was talking about. But what happened was, it made me not want to take pictures with people that….with a man that's in touch with his feminine side a little too much, or a woman that's in touch with her masculine side a little too much. It made me not want to take pictures with those type of individuals.
"Before I got in this business, I didn't know anything about somebody trying to sabotage my career [and] my name.
That was foreign to me. I thought, I ain't did nothing to nobody. Why would they want to try something like that with me?
So that was foreign to me, so when them people did that it was a shock, but I still was cool. I still was good, but everybody else was taking to it. It actually…it injured my career a little bit. I watched it happen. I lost a deal because of that.[...]A record situation. I lost a deal over that.
"I've never been through a sabotaging situation like that, and it was so fabricated. False. And I watched people take to it and it was just crazy. I can't even…it was beyond me.
On how he would react if he saw Sidney Starr today;
"First off, I'm a humble dude. I'm a forgiving dude. And that's another thing…if people know anything about what Jesus spoke of in the Bible you know it was about love and forgiveness.
So, I'm a forgiving dude. I would tell that person…which I've already told that person how I felt about it because that person contacted my people. I forgave them. I forgave the person because it ain't no need for me to hold no grudge. It don't mean that just because that person chose to be evil don't mean that I gotta be evil right along with them. I'ma stay good-natured. Stay good-hearted. I would tell that person that was pretty messed up. That was foul. I [ended] up losing a lot for that. While they was trying to gain something that they still didn't gain and trying to walk over people to get where you wanna get, that's not the way to go. That ain't it. Because a circle is 360 degrees. So what that tells me is what comes around, goes around."
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