Former Death Row Records crooner, Danny Boy, is best known for singing on several Death Row hits, such as Tupac’s “I Ain’t Mad At Cha.” However, in more recent years, not only is he still known for his dope singing ability, but also for his straightforward personality, as well as the countless stories he’s been revealing about what he says really went down behind the scenes of the music game with some of our favorite artists back then.
This time around, Danny Boy is putting Jodeci’s, K-Ci; and K-Ci’s ex, Mary J. Blige, in the forefront…and it involves him as well.
Ya’ see, Danny Boy, Jodeci, and Mary J. apparently go way back to when they all used to be cool with each other beginning in the ’90s. Although Danny says “K-Ci and Jo-Jo have always been like a brother to me,” he also feels that when it came to Mary J., K-Ci “got in his feelings” a lil’ bit. Why? Because according to Danny Boy, he, too, had relations with Mary J. Blige supposedly around the same time that she was in an on-again-off-again relationship with K-Ci.
Danny Boy Explains Why K-Ci ‘Fired Him Over Mary J. Blige’
In his Art of Dialogue interview, Danny Boy says the beef over Mary J. Blige was sparked during the time when Danny Boy was singing background for and touring with Jodeci, according to Danny:
“I was out on the road with K-Ci and Jo-Jo probably about 5 or 6 years. … During the good times…during the bad times when people seen the viral videos of them being drunk on stage.”- Danny Boy
Danny said that they were so in-sync during performances that he would be “holdin’ it down” for Jo-Jo at times when Jo-Jo wasn’t feeling well enough to sing his parts.
But Danny explained that while the touring with Jodeci all came to a screeching hault for him unexpectedly. It was during the time when he says everyone on tour began reading his memoir, where he discussed allegedly having a sexual relationship with Mary J. years prior:
D.B.- “While we were on tour with Jodeci, that’s when everybody on the tour bus started reading my book, “Stranded On Death Row.” … Everybody was like, ‘Man…so you was with Mary?!?’ And they’d just be laughing about it. And it really wasn’t on a disrespectful end, but they kinda always just brought it up.”
As time went on Danny Boy said that he could tell this had struck a nerve with K-Ci:
D.B.- “K, you could tell he was kinda in his feelings about it. … And [then] we got to one city and K-Ci just kinda flipped out…and started telling me, ‘Ya know I’m your boss!’ And I said ‘you not my mothaf^^ing boss! …I sing backgrounds, this is a work-for-hire.'”
Then came the firing:
D.B.- “So we kinda exchanged some words. And after my book being out for a while…we were gearing up for some shows…and they never called me back again for any shows. I was kinda like fired third party.”
Danny Boy says after getting fired presumably over his past with Mary J., he’s talked to Jo-Jo “maybe a couple of times,” but as far as K-Ci, he says “I haven’t seen K-Ci, or talked to him since.”
“I Lost A Lot Of Respect For Them”
According to Danny Boy, as a result of being fired for a years-old sexual past with Mary J., he “lost a lot of respect for them.” He says although he and Jo-Jo have always been cool, “they always be doing some funny sh*t…as brothers,” and that he was “disappointed and let down” by the way they handled the situation surrounding their business relationship, over a past he allegedly had with Mary J. well before he’d ever started working with them to that capacity. He also admits that he’s “more let down on the brotherhood side” because they were “like brothers” to him. But he says he’s “thankful for the opportunity”…although he admittedly doesn’t ‘give a f**k if he ever talks to K-Ci again.’
It seems like all of those dudes had – and likely still have – love for each other. So hopefully in due time they’ll be able to dap it up and let bygones be bygones. Now, as far as Danny Boy’s claims regarding his past relations with Mary J. Blige…as far as we know, Mary has never publicly disputed his claims.
Check out what else Danny Boy said about K-Ci’s and Mary J.’s alleged abusive relationship in his Art of Dialogue interview clip up top. You can also cop Danny Boy’s memoir, “Stranded on Death Row,”on Amazon.
