Did you see that AJ was KILLED in a brawl in the parking lot outside a club called "Body Tap" (bad sign)? An employee of the club (bouncer?) has been arrested. AJ died of severe head injuries. Apparently, he and Kandi had broken up, at least temporarily, but she is devastated.

Thanks for the picture of Ed. You have got to watch some football, Leia (if you don't already). I saw Dwight Freeney walking off the field, injured, last week and I almost fainted from the hotness.

I think Big Papa is making some demands on Kim's time now that they're back together and that's why she couldn't make it to Kandi's show.

From what has been said Body Tap is a strip club and AJ was a cowner of it.
No word on what started the fight.
The realtionship was put on haitus and the two were still good friends.

Are you serious!!?? AJ was killed??? OMG! That's horrible. Kandi is such a likable person. I'm bummed.

On the lighter side, Kim and Nene are both being twats this season. They deserve each other.

I think Kim nips actually did pop out of the red birthday dress. I thought I saw some blurring on the screen.

The story about A.J. was on the local news earlier. I feel so bad for Kandi and her family!

Leia, I couldn'y post his picture (because URLs aren't allowed here), but Big Poppa is allegedly a guy named Lee Najjar. You can probably google pictures of him. He's apparently a Turk and his wealth is supposed to have come from the Atlanta real estate game. He's also married and has two kids, and their mansion was featured on MTV's Teen Cribs a while back.

Lee Najjar was outed last season as Big Poppa. He owns the company that sets up all of those Tanjier Outlet Malls all over the southeast. His son also runs with the crowd from The Hills apparently.

I found a link to his picture, but of course I can't post it. Wait, try this as it works for me... put this in google with quotation marks and it comes up as the first hit:

"big poppa moves in with kim"

It is a bit dated and says that Cori was supposed to replace DeShawn, but it has pictures of Big Poppa and his sons.

I found Big Poppa's picture by googling "who is big poppa". www.twominutenews.com brings up a picture of the guy. He looks decent enough I guess.

Yeah I heard about AJ too. That's terrible. He was stated as being Kandi's ex-fiance and she is taking care of his 12 year old girls.

I agree with everyone that Kim and Nene are sad this season. I watched only part of this episode because Kim recording at the studio was so painful. Kandi is so professional and patient. I heard the song and it shows what a wiz Kandi's team is. I hope the elderly guitar teacher get some kind of compensation for it.

Well considering that the guy in the studio who "fixed" Kim's voice and who came up with the music had to sue Kim in order to get paid, I am sure the poor guitar teacher who wrote the song will have to sue her too. Especially as she is saying that her daughter co-wrote the song. That is not what they said in that episode last season. The music teacher clearly said that these were some songs that HE had done. But Kim is a money-grubbing piece of trash, so what do you expect.

Yes, it was really sad to hear about AJ. There is a pretty good interview after the break up, before he died of course on Bossip. Yes it was at Body Tap a club he partly owned that is actually a few miles from where I live. Kandi is suppose to be opening up a boutique in my neighborhood too next month. I plan to go visit and support her.

Leia how can I email you? I would love to send you this article done on the Housewives in "Atlanta Magazine" that had the women VERY UPSET. Especially Kim, tehehe. It was titled "Trashanista's". Apparently they agreed to the photo shoot and interview, but did not know the article was going to completely dog them. tehehe

You can see a preview here (take out the spaces):
www. atlantamagazine. com/insider/access/RHOA.aspx

Thanks Kdog, Snootchy & viane. I thought I was a RHW jukie, but you guys rock with your insider info.

Leia, your ATL girls are pretty horrid, with the exception of Kandi, but nowhere near the level of the Orange County ho's. I love you're skewering of them each week. Roast those biatches, just like Kim's suckling piglets are begging for.

I'm so disappointed that Kim didn't go to Kandi's performance! It amazes me how selfish some people can be! Kim got her song and her man and now she's saying f u to everyone else! How selfish! It'll come back to bite her when Big Poppa leaves her for the next big - breasted hookah.

""This is a lot of work," Kim drawls. No shit, you spoiled human cartoon!"

Best line ever from any recapper that has written about any the different housewife shows. This is one of the best description of Kim- it encapsulates her to a tee- it is perfection. She is a cartoon- her lips, her oversized balloon breasts, her wig, everything. I couldn't figure out what bothered me so much about her and after reading that I finally figured it out. Thanks!

I can't watch this show anymore because it is just too much of a disgusting display of humanity. With the exception of Kandi and sometimes Ed and Lisa. But I do get enjoyment out of reading the recaps.

Plus it makes me so angry that a woman with no talent is some how connected with a song that people seem to be enjoying. I just can not watch Kim get anything good in her life and I know that she has so some shit to deal with in her life. But she distresses me. The bitch can't even sing the song live. She has to know that she had no part in making that song sound some what decent and marketable. One can only hope.

But I did just read somewhere the Kim and Big Poppa called off the engagement. Shocker, I know. And well it is more like Big Poppa called it off. So now Kim is hitting up another Bravo show, The Millionaire Matchmaker, to find her another gold mine to dig.

I am not sure why I like NeNe still. Maybe it is just that she is not Kim. And I think why NeNe got so upset about the song is because I think she has a confidence problem and I think it chipped away at her confidence, made her feel less than. I don't know that is the way I see. People that seem like they have huge egos, generally, have some sort of issue with confidence.

Sheree just kind of sucks and is boring. She is very predictable and is so spoiled and delusional. And Lisa and Ed seem pretty damn normal, sane, and down to earth. But that might just be in comparison to the other nut jobs on this crazy train of a show.

Big Poppa is actually pretty good-looking. I'm sure he could do MUCH better than Kim, but maybe he has a weird, suckling pig-breast, Dynel-wig fetish.

I still think these ladies, except Sheree, would be fun to hang out with, especially NeNe and Kandi. Even Kim is somebody I could see drinking with. Unlike those hussies in RHOC, who would bore me senseless.

Leia, thank you for another entertaining recap. The headphone wig pic had me reeling.

It's miraculous how Kim's hairline fracture (oh, the irony) healed just in time for her to ditch the crutches for those fm stilettos.
I guess "maimed for the party" doesn't have quite the same ring.

I've got such a girl crush on Kandi - she's adorable!
Da-wight didn't act quite so haughty last season, or at least it seemed more tongue-in-cheek. How dreadful that he and Nene are taking themselves so seriously this season.