Christina Milian is back on her first magazine cover since parting ways with Island Def Jam in 2006. The 27-year-old singer breaks her silence to Rap-Up on the emotional past two years, her reaction to ex-boyfriend Nick Cannon’s marriage to Mariah Carey, and her brand new album on MySpace Records. (…)

On the reason why she was dropped:

“It was a budget cut, I believe. [Def Jam] probably got rid of projects like mine to spend the money on [Rihanna].”

Source: Just Jared

29 Comments on “Christina Milian: Def Jam probably dropped me because of Rihanna”

  1. Yawwwnnnnn at K. Number 1 I am from the Caribbean so I am not hating. If people can’t take constructive criticism, then you need to grow up. The truth is, Rihanna and you know this has no real vocal range, She sings off and flat most times live and lacks genuine passion for music. So far to me she just seems to be singing and that’s he problem. She does not sing from her heart. She just seems to sing because somebody glammed her up and shoved her on a stage. She needs to get into her music and stop singing from her throat. She will lose her voice if she continues in this way. They need to get a proper vocal coach for her because she just bellows and shouts out her notes singing them from the throat.She is young it will be very unfortunate if her lack of proper technique makes he lose her voice. That’s the risk and she needs to really start making different kind of music that will not sound so grating on her voice. This is not hating. It’s called seeing for yourself and not jumping on a badnwagon drawn by blind horses. She does not have a unique voice ppl its her BAjan accent… if anyone of us Caribben peoppe sing you will hear it. Stop exoticizing the girl. All ppl have accents. It’s just something a little different.

  2. K I may not be a millionaire but I am contributing to society in a more meaningful way. I do not need money to make me feel happy or mark my skin to be cool. I have nothing to lose and we all know, those of us who are smart that money does not buy happiness. Knowledge is power and that is what I have. I have been educated at the highest level and can see through all of these theatrics of popular culture. I am currently doing research on identity and culture hence the reason why I visit sites like this, so please find someone else like yourself to pick on. It is however unforunate that Christina felt she had to strp to be recognized. Thanks for the info.

  3. this is funny. K’s gettin so defensive. calm down, it’s not that serious. no need to cuss and stuff. it’s all about image and promotion and Christina doesn’t have an image and she’s not promoted as heavily as Rihanna is. i actually heard of and saw Christina before she was even dating Nick Cannon so…

  4. K is obviously intoxicated

    and yes, it is true that Christina turned down to sing “umbrella”. i’ve read it on every site i went on, and they all say the same ass thing over and over.

  5. I’ve heard rihanna is broke because every dime she’s made has just been spent on making her as big as she is now. Her hit ‘umbrella’ was a money-making scheme. It was made specifically to make money. It was completely commercial. Rihanna has been fashioned from nothing by def jam. They effectively turned water into wine with rihanna. They did consider dropping rihanna – hence her 3 back to bacl albums. but then her epiphany came. Good girl gone bad was created, a new,sexy image for rihanna,and this was the best buisniess descision def jam could have made regarding rihanna. Despite all this, I love her, although I’ve heard she’s a bitch to her fans. I’m a 15 year old boy by the way, incase you think I’m being biased.

  6. Yo yall need to check ya facts for real though cause mary j blige was originally supposed to have the song umbrella but the song went to rihanna instead but mary j said now that the song was out with rihanna singing it then it was probably better for it to happen that way and she said rihanna did her thing on the umbrella song and another reason mary j wasn’t upset is she said there will be other songs and cause she was busy and the people told rihanna the song was hers. So that’s what really happened and yall can read up on it at this website
    http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1571625/20071010/blige_mary_j.jhtml

  7. I think she is the new britney because her talent is not her highlight but she still selling. She has something special, and its not the image. Her songs are catchy as hell.

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