um growing up i didn't always think i'd be entertained i knew i was gonna be something
i didn't know if i was gonna be a lawyer or a superstar but i really could do both so i'm gonna
be a superstar first then i'm gonna do law but it was just like i always just knew how to control
crowds and who people like get people to go like dad i know you could say like that i know you
like people only i don't know you yeah well now you know and so you can pass the word on
she was born with golden vocal cords and news stardom was just around the corner from a very
young age it took some time but once she was out of the gate she was off and running however
after years of repeatedly getting knocked down by her personal demons and toxic relationships
she couldn't take it anymore and thought the only solution was to end it all let's find out
what happened to american r b singer songwriter radio and television personality little mo
cynthia karen loving known to the world as lil moe was born into a christian family in long island
new york she was only partially raised there since her family moved around a lot due to her
father's military assignments they shuffled around texas atlanta and north carolina before finally
settling just outside of baltimore maryland she began singing at the age of four in the church
years later as a teen she would get to hone her skills on tour traveling around with her uncle
gospel singer and pastor john p key after graduating high school mo moved back to new
york to attend hair school and also pursue her music career at the same time then in early 1998
at the age of 19 she would catch the attention of rapper singer songwriter and record producer
missy elliott after submitting a demo tape to a record company for r b singer nicole ray's debut
album make it hot missy invited mo to come with her on tour and also helped her land a contract
deal with that same company elektra records by the summer of that year her debut single called
five minutes would be released while trying to get her album out mo began being featured quite a bit
on tracks by other artists she gained a tremendous amount of attention for her
contributions on missy elliot's hot boys as well as rapper ja rule singles put it on me and i cry
unfortunately things wouldn't stay kosher between jaw and mo for long in early 2003 while co-hosting
hip-hop and r b music video shows spin-off series 106 and park prime mo shouted g-unit
after introducing a video at the time jaw and g-unit member 50 cent were in the middle of a
major beef naturally the incident angered jaw and his crew murdering mo later claimed that she
didn't think her mic was on and assumed bet was going to edit out that part of the show
later jaw released the diss track loose change which targeted several artists including mo
then mo disja right back on a track of her own that wasn't the end of it though in 2005 mo
filed a lawsuit against ja rule murdering and def jam for 15 million dollars in unpaid royalties for
her contributions on the two tracks however by 2010 the two had reconciled and even recorded a
track together the following year called you and me in the spring of 2000 mo released the song tada
it would be the lead single on her debut album titled based on a true story
which would finally drop in june 2001. just before that she would release the song that
would be her first solo successful hit the album's second single superwoman part two
it peaked at number 11 on the billboard hot 100 and featured an up-and-coming rapper by
the name of fabulous also around this time mo met her first husband augustus stone at a gas station
in washington dc after dating for just five months they wed in august 2001. they would go on to have
two children four years later she would file for divorce during that summer as well a violent and
potentially deadly incident happened to moe while leaving a concert venue in san francisco
she was bludgeoned in the head by a man wielding a champagne bottle she was immediately hospitalized
and received nearly two dozen stitches a reward was issued in hopes of catching the assailant
however he was never found while recovering from the assault she temporarily settled down in her
adopted hometown of baltimore and began her radio career as a part-time on-air personality
with urban station x 105.7 wxyv fm the little moe show ran for a little under a year before she
went back to focusing on music her second album titled meet the girl next door was released two
years later it included the singles forever and ten commandments the former would become
a top forty head then her label elektra would eventually become absorbed by atlantic records
bringing moe's contract to an end the next year she signed a new deal with universal's cash money
records and began work on her third album again she had to accept the album release being pushed
back due to the singles not doing well to add insult to injury that album titled syndicated
the little mo hour would end up shelved following the destruction of cash money's new orleans studio
by hurricane katrina mo was also then dropped from the label she began releasing singles as
an independent artist under her own production company called honey child entertainment which
she founded in 2000 in 2005 a feud between little mo and r b singer kisha cole erupted via
the syndicated radio show the star and buck wild show apparently mo dismissed the vocal talent of
a new crop of r b performers saying that they're more concerned with dancing instead of singing
keisha took offense even though mo didn't mention any names she ended up spotting mo's manager and
stylist in the lobby of a new york city hotel she confronted them and told them they were traitors
and that mo was the enemy word got back to mo but she just brushed off the incident claiming
that she heard that kisha was drunk so she blamed her behavior on the alcohol
they would go at it again years later when in 2013 kisha would be criticized by urban media
outlets for her twitter critique of beyonce's song bow down i've been on mo a clear queen bee stan
then put her two cents in and her and keisha then began exchanging aggressive tweets over the next
several days despite the experience in may most said there was no beef between her and keisha
which led to the two exchanging more aggressive messages again via instagram and twitter in
august 2007 mo released the album pain and paper none of the singles charted the following year
she began work on her fourth album however plans including turning it into a double disc full of
live performances were eventually scrapped things may not have been going moe's way professionally
but personally things were definitely on an upswing in june 2008 she married gospel
recording artist philip bryant they would go on to have two children together sadly the couple
separated and subsequently divorced in 2014 due to his infidelity that mo apparently found out about
during a threesome yes you heard that correctly she told new york city's power 105.1 radio station
morning show the breakfast club that her and her husband would engage in threesomes by his choice
during one particular encounter she just knew that the other woman had been with her husband before
because mo noticed that she was a little too comfortable with certain moves luckily there
was no need for anyone to feel sorry for miss moe since before the ink was even dry on the divorce
papers she'd already moved on to someone new in may 2011 mo released her first mixtape titled p.s
i love you quickly followed up just six months later with the studio album ps i love me
two years later she made a decision that would take her career and life to new heights
mo became a cast member of the reality television series r b divas los angeles as what usually
happens on reality tv shows the beefs between her and her castmates got major air time during its
three-year run namely with shantae moore and kelly price it was on the show that mo also revealed a
painful childhood memory she as well as her sister had been m******d by a member of their church
her sister told a cousin who confronted and threatened the man and no further incidents
occurred after that the individual never ended up suffering any legal consequences for his actions
mo though went on to be a reclusive person dressing in more masculine ways and not trusting
men in general for a long time when she did enter into intimate relationships with the opposite sex
she would self-medicate to deal with any drama or abuse that happened 2014 would turn out to be an
extremely productive year for little mo especially the month of october her fifth album titled
the scarlet letter dropped as well as her second mixtape no s*** sherlock additionally her tell-all
book taming lumo was released that summer she'd get into a short-lived beef with the king of funk
prince mo was apparently minding her own business while trying to access a bathroom at the essence
music festival in new orleans she was denied entry by security and nola police because at the same
time the purple one was making his way through the backstage area before going on to perform an
irritated and offended mo sounded off in a since deleted instagram post and prince responded in a
series of since deleted tweets mo said he didn't even hit all the damn notes which she claimed in
an exclusive interview with entertainment blog the jasmine brand wasn't even about prince but
another performer and he shut her down by saying that he hopes she knows none of her clothes match
mo would also walk down the aisle for the third time this year she wed professional boxer carl
dargan whose seven years her junior and best known for winning a gold medal at the 2007 pan am games
he actually first saw her in a music video when he was just a teenager he may have been very young
but he had the fortitude to pull a slick one asking his cousin to book her for an event so
he could make his move even though they did meet mo already being locked down in a relationship
and their obvious inappropriate age difference prevented anything from transpiring until over
a decade later they would have one child together her fifth and his fourth to honor her husband's
faith she would also convert to islam and would begin wearing a hijab in january 2016 mo found a
spot once again on the radio airwaves when she began hosting the 93.9 wkys radio show the fam
in the morning with dj quicksilva in washington dc the experience came to an abrupt end when she was
fired the following year and also had a falling out with quick she believed that he knew what was
about to go down and didn't give her a heads up later that year mo decided to try reality tv again
actually several more times first she joined the cast of vh1's love in hip-hop new york then
she would appear along with her husband in an episode of couples court with the cutlers where
she petitioned the court to give her husband a lie detector test to determine if he was cheating
or not he denied all of the accusations however the lie detector test determined that was a lie
then they appeared on wetv's marriage bootcamp reality stars 12 hip-hop edition where the issue
of carl's cheating came up yet again in early 2018 mo faced some serious backlash over her
support for her friend fabulous concerning some domestic violence allegations she expressed
similar sentiments the following year when the lifetime documentary surviving r kelly debuted
in the same breakfast club interview she admitted that even though she'd never met him and hadn't
seen the documentary she didn't understand how everything could go down the way it did
being that he had a wife and family at home how the parents could allow their children to
be in that kind of situation in the first place and why the victims waited so long to speak up
mo faced more backlash again over comments she made criticizing r b singer queen naija's
performance at the 2018 soul train awards she later clarified her statement to raidedrnb.com
saying that in her opinion naija shouldn't have sung on stage while pregnant
she went on to explain that as a singer herself she doesn't do that
because of how it affects her breathing niges performance also followed one by kelly price
and even though they butted heads in the past on r b divas mo acknowledges and respects her
tremendous talent and said even she wouldn't want to go on after kelly in october of that year mo
announced on her instagram that the time had come for her to move away from music and follow her
other passion of becoming a lawyer however things didn't turn out that way in the early part of 2019
mo announced that she had left carl after an exchange between them that for her was the last
straw he spat on her in front of their children during an argument interestingly enough it was
the same day they returned home from marriage boot camp also that year mo admitted that she was
hooked on opioids and lived as a functional drug addict in fact the interview her and carl did with
the breakfast club in january as promo for the show happened after the spitting incident while
they were already on the outs in the same year she revealed in an interview with dj kwiksilva
after they had patched up their friendship that she was spending hundreds of dollars a day on
substances to not just get high for the sake of the feeling but to just be able to not have
to deal with anything including her children she also spoke about the different manners of
abuse she endured from her husband including physical violence and threats to end her life
he didn't need to do that mo already had thoughts of doing the same thing to herself those thoughts
even go back many years as she was also struggling with anxiety and depression this time she decided
to get clean focus on her children and scrub her social media 2021 has been another successful year
for lilmo she released a couple of singles broken heart and her latest shining star featuring
rappers t-pain and fat man scoop in anticipation of her upcoming album titled savage heart
that's been in the works for the last two years on september 14th mo took to the stage with ja rule
to participate in his instagram live vs battle against rapper fat joe mo did her thing but before
that joe decided to make an inappropriate and disrespectful comment towards mo and rapper vida
who was also in attendance to support jaw you had to bring remy to save you this is [ __ ] pathetic
in the coming days moe would speak to tmz about how
vile and triggering the comment was and how disappointed she was in him
joe would later apologize this year also marks the 20th anniversary of lilmo's debut album
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