KARRINE STEFFANS: Time for some Double Exposure

By Karu F. Daniels, AOL Black Voices

karrine steffans open up to essence.com about jamie foxx, lil' wayne, ne-yo and other stuff. The media continues its lurid love affair with Karrine Steffans.

The former music video actress turned best-selling authoress -- who blew the bed-sheets off of the hip-hop industry by exposing trysts with some of the genres biggest names -- is ready to do it again with her second explosive tome, 'The Vixen Diaries' -- in stores next month.

Since the first book's release, the Caribbean born beauty, affectionately known as "Superhead" by many -- and once known as Yizette Santiago -- was featured in a pre-memoir adult video with porn stud Mister Marcus, been romantically linked to HBO 'Real Time' host Bill Maher, hip-hop soul crooner Ne-Yo and rugged rapper Lil' Wayne.

And even Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx is all up in her mix.

Or so she says.

The Los Angeles based head-turner referred to the 'Dreamgirls' and 'Ray' star as a "male groupie" in an interview with essence.com

"I had a weird experience with Jamie Foxx with whom I have a long history with and we're cool," she revealed. "He was acting like he was in awe of me and I'm like, 'Yeah, right, you're the famous one and with an Oscar at that.'"

She got a little more candid about the Cash Money Records hit-maker Lil' Wayne though, saying she can't start or end her day without talking to him. "We don't necessarily talk on the phone, but we text each other all the time," she furthered. "It's a perfect relationship. He knows that no matter who he's with and vice versa, we love each other."

Regarding Ne-Yo, who is currently headlining the McDonald's Live tour, she brought clarity about their rumored relationship. "Ne-Yo and I are friends, but he's just not my type of person," she said. "I had to have a conversation with him because he thought that I had written a detailed description of our sex life in my book. Instead of asking me, he responded to a reporter's question in a tone that I didn't appreciate, implying that I'd been telling lies about our relationship. I never claimed him as my boyfriend. Once I told him he wasn't in my book, then he was cool."

During last month's Essence Music Festival, the chart-topping Def Jam crooner seemed to nopt mind the fodders of a relationship with Steffans, admitting that it helped downplay rumors of him being homosexual.

On the heels of the release of 'Confessions,' Steffans was lambasted by some celebrity/hero worshipping media types -- for her exposure of touchy and taboo topics (including hip-hop homosexuality, men who didn't live up to their egos, affairs with men who were "spoken for," etc. Throughout all of the mistreatment (specifically in the hip-hop media industry), the book continued to sell-out at retailers across the country.

Some in the publishing industry believe that Steffans -- who starred in 'A Man Apart' alongside Vin Diesel and Larenz Tate -- jump-started the new era of black tell-all tomes, which has become a new trend among the urban literature scene.

Earlier this year, Carmen Bryant, a former record company receptionist, who has a child with renowned rap lyricist Nas, wrote her memoir 'It's No Secret ' detailing hot and steamy sexual escapades with NBA star Allen Iverson, and hip-hop mogul Jay-Z.

Last month, Tarsha Nicole Jones, a former hip-hop soul singer turned notorious on-air radio personality known as Miss Jones, released her no-holds-barred page turner 'Have You Met Miss Jones?', in which she broke silence about rivalries with nationally syndicated shock jock Wendy Williams, and affairs with rap veterans Doug E. Fresh and Busta Rhymes.

About the reaction to her book -- which landed her on a prized spot on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' -- Steffans rationed that "at the end of the day, it's business not personal."

"I can't afford to ruin my professional life simply to save face with my friends," she continued, then added, "but I also don't want to lose my friends for the love of the almighty dollar, and I think I found a good balance with this book."

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