Calling all hip hop practitioners, it's that time again. Boy old boy is it ever that time again when you have a mega superstar like Whitney Houston sit down during an interview and admit to being spit on. Once upon a time there was only one phenomenal songstress that was deserving of the top position, with more than 140 million albums sold there was a true diva in Whitney Houston.

Oprah delivered the goods early by asking what was Ms. Houston's drug of choice. Whitney wasted no time in saying, "Cocaine and Marijuana. That's it. But he [Bobby Brown] liked to drink. I wasn't a drinker. The alcoholism, that's an ugly thing. Either you're going to be a really nice alcoholic or a really mean one. He was really mean. We were lacing our Marijuana with base. We weren't on crack. We weren't on no crack stuff. We weren't buying $20 jumbos. We were paying money. We were buying kilos and ounces and ounces. We would have our stash. We weren't doing pipe smoking. We didn't get that far. Yet some how she made it far enough to admit to doing drugs while reading the Bible at the same time, what type of multi-tasking is that? In seeing the demise of her as a power house starlet one statement rings true, "Cocaine is a hell of a drug."

During a two day tell all interview with the queen of media Oprah Winfrey, Whitney spilled the beans on everything from her music, to being painfully abused by her former famous husband Bobby Brown. Oprah pointed out that many considered Bobby to be the bad boy type and the diva explained, "They don't have any idea about that sweet, gentle tenderness about him that nobody knew. He was a very quiet person. When that entertainer came out onstage, he did that thing. But at home, he was very much the father. He was very much the man. He was very much in control. I liked that because I was in control of all my stuff, and here he comes along and everybody was like, "Wow, she's got somebody now." When he said something, I listened. I was very interested in having someone have that control over me. It was refreshing." Whitney did take a moderate jab when stating that things took a wrong turn in her marriage when her husband became jealous over her successful career while his seems to crash and burn. She also stated that she begin to lose herself as a person in trying to please him and always boldly play the role of Mrs. Bobby Brown.

Now anyone who laughed over the insanity of the television show Being Bobby Brown can attest that the couple was living in a catastrophic arena of dramatic, ghetto, buffoonery. The hip hop culture has been so supportive of Whitney doting her to wear the title as a ride or die chick for her loyalty to her x-husband despite his chaotic past and negative affiliations. She spoke on the abuse, "Emotionally, he was abusive. Physically, no way. Because first of all, I was raised with two boys, and I will fight you back. I will fight you back with anything I can find. He slapped me once, but he got hit over the head three times." She also goes on to discuss knocking Bobby out with a telephone for disrespecting her. This is kind of believable because if there's one thing we've learned from all of this Whitney keeps it hood. Ms. Houston also keeps it too real when talking about her turning point once confirming that Bobby was out and about entertaining women and being promiscuous and having the nerve to charge it to her credit card, damn!

There were countless memories of destruction leading to the end such as, "There were times when he would smash things, break things in the home. Glass. We had a big, big giant portrait of me and him and my child. He cut my head off the picture. Stuff like that. And I thought, "This is really strange." So I figured, cutting my head off a picture, that was a little much for me. That was one sign." And then there were other things like he started to paint in my bedroom eyes. Just eyes. Evil eyes that were looking at every point of the room. Yes folks Bobby was trippin' hard.

Whitney who's normally known to keep a tight lip on her personal life shed light on her struggles and regrets in this special two day segment. She discussed where she stands now and hopes to be in the future. She spoke on living the simple life growing organic fruit with her daughter on a remote island, which frankly sounds nutty as hell and does not constitute not making an album in seven years. Whitney recounted, "At that time in my life, I was going through such trauma. ... I thought that was enough for me. I had the money. I had the cars. I had the house. Had the husband. Had the kid. And none of it was really that fulfilling. For a time, I was happy. I was happy, but I needed that joy. I needed my joy back. I needed that peace that passes all understanding." She goes on to claim she didn't even miss not singing anymore.

Thank goodness her mother stepped in with the sheriff and forced her to crawl back to her feet. I guess rehab can work and she certainly looks better than she did for the Michael Jackson 30th Anniversary special when she was bone thin. All and all this interview unfolded some of the wackiest things anyone could've ever imagined but was amazingly informative meeting all expectations. I think Whitney said it best when she said, "this isn't a come back but a come through," she's right this is her come through moment.

- By Sha'Linda Jeanine