Melyssa Ford Drags Karrine "Superhead" Steffans On "The Joe Budden Podcast"

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Ford believes that Steffans' work doesn't merit the same categorization, praise, and historical mark as her own.

Gunna's recent music video for "Bachelor," which stars many famous video vixens from hip-hop music videos, sparked a lot of debate. Namely, it focused around who got a spot to feature in the visual, and which other notable names did not appear. During a recent episode of The Joe Budden Podcast, they were able to discuss this quite intensely based on one of their members' personal experience and judgement. Moreover, Melyssa Ford is among this class, and she resisted the guys' view that Karrine "Superhead" Steffans should've appeared. With personal know-how and expertise in mind, she broke down why it's not a solid argument.

"What?" Melyssa Ford incredulously responded to someone bringing up Karrine "Superhead" Steffans during this discussion. "Name a video that you know of her in. Which [Jay-Z joint]? And a lot of us had a really big problem with that f***ing [book] title [Confessions of a Video Vixen]. Really, really big problem. Okay, no hate, no shade: when you think about her, do you think about her being one of the most prolific in terms of recognizable?

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"Like, where you can automatically say, 'I know her from this, I know her from that, because she was the starring role'?" Melyssa Ford continued. "No, you can't really say that, because that wasn't... She wasn't me, she wasn't Buffy, she wasn't Esther, she wasn't Rosa," she concluded before the guys went through Steffans' filmography. "Okay, now, can you remember actually seeing her in those videos?" Ford retorted. "'Danger,' yeah. Okay," she said when the guys said they remember Steffans.

"'Hey Papi' had like 50 f***ing girls in it, okay?" Ford maintained. "And the majority of the shots was literally body shots, heads cut off. So there's that. And 'Hey Papi' comes after 'Big Pimpin',' so I'm already here, and I'm Melyssa f***ing Ford. I'm not a girl's girl to everybody, f**k that s**t. Okay? Maybe [it's a little hate]. I'll back it up." For more news on Elisabeth Ovesen (formerly known as Karrine "Superhead" Steffans), Melyssa Ford, and The Joe Budden Podcast, keep checking in with HNHH.

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Gabriel Bras Nevares is a staff writer for HotNewHipHop. He joined HNHH while completing his B.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication at The George Washington University in the summer of 2022. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Gabriel treasures the crossover between his native reggaetón and hip-hop news coverage, such as his review for Bad Bunny’s hometown concert in 2024. But more specifically, he digs for the deeper side of hip-hop conversations, whether that’s the “death” of the genre in 2023, the lyrical and parasocial intricacies of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, or the many moving parts of the Young Thug and YSL RICO case. Beyond engaging and breaking news coverage, Gabriel makes the most out of his concert obsessions, reviewing and recapping festivals like Rolling Loud Miami and Camp Flog Gnaw. He’s also developed a strong editorial voice through album reviews, think-pieces, and interviews with some of the genre’s brightest upstarts and most enduring obscured gems like Homeboy Sandman, Bktherula, Bas, and Devin Malik.
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