She reps the Big State with her big cake and has the Internet going crazy. Your turn.If Houston, Texas model Lyric had a slogan for her exploits, nothing would be more fitting than: Never underestimate the power of the Internet. In 1999, the “born hustler” stumbled upon a modeling career via the information-age communication system and today is an on-line star because of it. “A friend of mine took pictures of me for fun and put them on BlackPlanet [.com] and I thought it was cute.
In two weeks I came back and I swear I had 700 emails,” tells the caramel cutie about her inspiration to start her own website, lyric0611.com, in 2002. “I got my first real check [from my website] and I was like, Damn, all I did was pose for three hours and made $500? Okay I can do this.” Now, with a fan base larger than that of many rappers, it should come as no surprise that Lyric has been summoned by several MCs to spice up their videos with her almond-shaped eyes, juicy lips and beauty of a derriere.
Though she’s laced a few “wack-ass videos with budgets like $400” in her day, the 20-something Gemini has upped her TV game of late with spots in Mike Jones’ Slim Thug- and Paul Wall-featured “Still Tippin’” and the Geto Boys’ “Yes, Yes Y’all.” But she hit the jackpot this past January when casting eye G-Flixxx landed her the opportunity to straddle 50 Cent in his Terrero brothers production “Candy Shop.” Already a favorite with obsessed fans, it looks like Lyric’s mail is about to read even crazier. “Today I checked my P.O. box and I got this letter [from this guy who wrote] that he’s so blessed to know me––I never met this dude. He writes me every week and sends me a gift card or outfit. He’s a preacher! Thanks to him I had a nice Christmas.”
Stalkers will never make it on this fatty owner’s to-do list. She prefers the baller type. Lyric needs someone who understands and is comfortable being in the limelight––so they can understand her life. “The [lack of] confidence with regular guys is the reason I don’t date them,” drops the U of Houston economics major. “They don’t approach me. They automatically assume I’m a gold digger or won’t date a guy with a regular job. But as long as a guy got a good job with benefits I will date him.”It’s fitting that Lyric shuns unemployed cats, since her back pockets are priceless. But it wasn’t always like that. In ’95, when the Gulfport, Mississippi-born doll was snatched out of her live-in boyfriend’s home by her parents and relocated to Houston, she was a different Lyric. “If you ever knew me in school I was this scrawny, no-ass, glasses- and long skirt-wearing girl. I didn’t get an ass ’til I was like 21. I was cute but I was like homely cute,” she laughs. “I took birth control pills and it started to spread. My ex-boyfriend will tell the world that he made my ass, though.” Either way it’s cool with us, ’cause here at XXL we’re pro-contraceptive and doggystyle.
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