Below are her words Culled from her personal website http://www.tonipayneonline.com
In some cases I agree that silence is powerful, but when silence continues to do so much damage, it may be wise to rethink that stance and say something. Some will say ignore, I say,I have ignored a lot of things, in fact I ignore most things. Others will say don't grant interviews, I say, why should I stop creating awareness about my work. Before I continue, letme say there are still some good, in fact, awesome media people out there who do their job well and hold the profession at high esteem.Now,on to the reason for all this.
I gave an interview to Punch Newspapers recently, which in my mind I was comfortable with. The interview came out Saturday as a frontpage feature interview. Before I had the chance to leave my house to see it, a friend of mine snapped the headline and sent it to my phone. When I saw what she sent, my heart skipped a beat because I knew what it meant, that I would soon be trending, but for the wrong reasons.
Let me state clearly, my problem was not with the interview per say but with the HEADLINE and the fact that It did not tally with anything I said in the interview and that fact bothered me alot considering the caliber of the publication.
The bold headline read " 9ice, Ruggedman SHOULDN'T HAVE fought over me".
I'm not an English student, but I know well that "shouldn't", implies that they fought over me andI feel they should have just made merry. Which is not so! You know now, Oko and Oko Ile tinz.. lol.. seriously though, its not funny.
I have stated times without number that the alleged fight was NEVER about me. 9ice has said soo many times that the song was never about me, I have shouted it from the rooftop that I never cheated and was a VERY MUCH, I BEAT MY CHEST WHEN I SAY THIS, A FLIPPING LOYAL WIFE!!!!!, but with careless Headlines like this from a widely read paper, how can people hear the truth?
If the headline stated that "9ice, Rugged DID NOT fight over me", maybe I wouldn't have been as bothered but it still doesn't change that I feel the headline should have been based on the reason I agreed to an interview in the first place.
The primary reason I agreed to do the interview was to promote my works but I guess in their eyes the good things I am doing was not WORTH their headline.
Personally, I feel the 9ice,Rugged,Payne gist is beyond stale, old, finished, more boring than counting your toes. All parties involved, as well as most media houses have moved on from it. All parties involved have clearly stated that the rumors never happened, so what exactly is some peoples' problem? I cant remember how many times I said "no comment" during the interview, it really shouldn't have been so, Why can't they just let sleeping dogs sleep peacefully?
If in 2013, you feel the need to wake up a dead topic or see that topic as fit to make your headline, then there is a need to go back to the mission statement written when your publication was created and really sit back and rethink why you are there.
Anyways, with that said, I'm not even going to touch on the issue of copy and paste bloggers who don't verify or care to check well before posting, I am not going to get into the topic of people who just read headlines, without fully reading and trying to comprehend each story, because if I do, we will be here forever.
Anyhow, It's nothing personal. The same way it's their job to report news, it's also my job to protect my image from shoddy, half baked false headlines. The rest I'll say is left in Gods hands.
One good thing though, this and many others inspired this poem HERE Go figure!
Link to Poem : http://tonipayneonline.com/ let_the_headline_scream_Toni_ Payne.mp3
Lyrics to the Poem is below
Life so calm like the wind in the night sky
I'm steady chilling cos life has new meaning
No worries enough to sharpen
Then one day it happened
In a captivating Style, meant to demean
Let the music play, Allow the headline scream
So that it would appeal, let the noise go on
Doesn't matter if it's a lie
No one can pass this by
I thought it was done
But she had to come
A simple sit down, opened old wounds
To look at a face does not access how demanding
Write about me, let it be the truth
Let the headlines scream of what I could do
Allow it reek of what I did say
The passion must reside with consideration
Free me from your manipulations
Let it be justified, I mean the "hateration"
they do not care about the reprimanding
It's their job, we should be used to it,
The price you pay, is filled with disdain.
Memories begin to spill again
Thought I was past this, that had no gain
It's been like that
The headlines that created a problem that neverexisted
one too many lies they stayed consistent
I thought Life was predictable,
but now that was debatable.
The questions they ask, ring in my head
Why dint she stay, she could have sustained..itseasy to say.
did she or didn't she? Could she?
They continue, not minding the gravity of their actions
Afterall, its minor in their life's faction
You choose your path in life, but can never predict those you chose to walk with.
Nobody is immune
It could have been you
I close this page with a lot to say
Hold my hand or let me be.
Allow my spirit to be free,
Allow me do the things you say
So your mouth can have a say
Beat your chest cos u were right
But till then, ill fight this fight
To them who started and those that continue
You wish for me to fall, so selfishly.
Who are you to judge, so carelessly
Running your mouth, incoherently.
I played them white walls
Within my four walls
I let the music play
My destiny, no longer to be delayed
We love you, let it go
I think I have but that is a side apart
Though I move far I think of the start
The situations that created this day,
the headlines that brought about the pain
Because blood runs through my veins.
I choose to be strong
To rise above the malice
At last I'm free
As you can see
I have a voice
You have no choice
But to listen, listen attentively
And to choose decisively
Where you stand abundantly.
You either live for the truth
Or continue to walk with lies
Remembering that the end justifies
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