Everyone loves a good tell-all…besides the names listed in the memoir. “Love & Hip Hop” cast member Winter Ramos is the latest former industry-used female to speak out about her misguided years in the abusive music business. Her 223-pager, titled “Game Over” is a detailed biography filled with enough celebrity names to keep you enticed to make it through each chapter to the end. “Game Over” is no literary masterpiece, but it does exactly what is supposed to do–spills the tea on your favorite rappers of the past and present.
Like Superhead‘s writing debut “Confessions Of A Video Vixen,” Winter’s book is an eerie reminder of what some women will do for money and fame. The common denominator in it all is the missing fatherly presence that seems to breed women like Winter who look to men for that void. “That seemed to be the norm, none of my friends had fathers around,” Winter mentions in the first page of her first chapter.
Aside from the daddy issues that are all too common in groupies, “Game Over” exposes rappers for two-timing, sexual beings whose bank accounts don’t match their flamboyant lifestyles. But, more than that, it puts the women who chase after them, on front street.
“After being around Dame and his glamorous lifestyle for an entire summer, my sense of entitlement had increased. It was bad enough that I’d been spoiled by my mother’s family my entire life, but now I felt as if I deserved the best-nothing less. The gifts Dame showered me with and the ‘benefits package’ that came along with being around him made me want more,” an excerpt from “Game Over”
Winter’s hunger for extravagance fuels most of “Game Over.” Her cautionary tale is one we’ve heard before, but that doesn’t make it any less interesting. Groomed in Brooklyn’s Cyprus Hill projects, Winter claims she learned her hood demeanor from her environment–that was filled with black faces. Her introduction to the lavish life, by her older drug dealing boyfriend, introduced her to a drug she’d sacrifice so much to attain.
She frequently apologizes for the intimate stories she is sharing, the names she is putting out there to be judged (and, there are a lot). So, before the book hits shelves. allow me to introduce you to some of these names she mentions in “Game Over.”
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“That life changing moment came when a tall, slim cat approached me. His lips were full and thick. His smile had a sort of cockiness to it. His swag was one of the most confident I’d ever seen. He was kind of cute although many people beg to differ. He introduced himself to me as Jay-Z. The name wasn’t familiar at the time. I didn’t know he was the cat who just released what is now considered a hip-hop classic, the album ‘Reasonable Doubt.’ “
& Dame Dash
“Dame had the money, he just sucked in bedroom. I do literally mean sucked. He got off on licking me like a cat licks its newborn kittens. The memory of his tongue slurping in my ear, filling it with saliva still haunts me now. All that nasty wetness made the sex horrible.”
Ja Rule
“To be honest, sleeping with Ja would probably be far from a disappointment. I knew I would’ve had to treat it like a booty call. I had to keep it moving and never let it happen. Those were my intentions. I swear they were. But one influential factor made those intentions extremely difficult… Ja was hung like a damn water hose!”
Swizz Beatz & Mashonda
“Our relationship grew quickly the moment we ‘got it in’ for the first time. Of course, Swizz kept us a secret. Since he was married, it was self-explanatory. He also didn’t really want the industry in his business. He preferred to keep everything about us between us, which was all good with me. So it came as no surprise that we’d meet in the most unlikely places. The Full Surface office is where I first got christened and realized he was the biggest I’d ever had. Table top, on the desk, he punished the p***y amongst the many related plaques that lined the wall.”
Jadakiss
“Then there were the times where we really got it in, with Jason showing off his mandingo skills. He was good in bed, the cuddly type. He knew how to be affectionate yet handled his business leaving me satisfied. Just the fact that he thought enough of me to offer a rag afterwards or asked me if I was hungry, thirsty, or needed anything should’ve told me to try to keep things working with him.”
Fabolous & Emily B
“The day of The VMAs, Fab called me and told me to pick up a female friend of his from the airport. She was coming in from Virginia. When he told me her name was Emily, I remembered her from the trip we’d recently taken to St. Thomas and St. Kitts. Fab and I had gone there for some Caribbean festival and Emily was the flavor of the week that had been flown in. At that time I figured he must’ve really like her. My strict orders were to pick her up and book her in a hotel away from ours. She wouldn’t be going to the VMAs with him.”
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The Game
“When Game opened the door he was dripping wet and dressed in just his boxers. His body was tight, and he was tatted up all over. He shut the door and I followed him out to the Jacuzzi. Game hopped in and with no shame, pulled me in with him. The moment seemed weird. There weren’t many times where I was with someone who just chilled in a situation like that. Eventually we just talked, with the jets shooting out pressure all around us; my body leaned back against his chest. They say everything happens for a reason…enough said.”
Big Money
“The moment he entered me I felt like we were consummating something real. I had craved this man for so long. But to my disappointment he was small…real small…yet for the first time in my life I was okay with that I wanted more than just sex. Big Money gave me passion.”
*We speculate that she is talking about Young Jeezy. She does not say his name.
