Friday, March 29, 2024

Whitney Houston’s Nephew Sides with Kanye & Pusha-T on Drug Photo

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*Proving that the family of the late Whitney Houston is not exactly unified as far as Kanye West and Pusha-T using the infamous drug paraphernalia/bathroom photo, Gary Michael Houston is not on the same page with others the clan. In other words, he doesn’t have a problem with the photo being used on the cover of Pusha-T’s upcoming Daytona album.

The 31-year-old son of Whitney Houston’s older brother Michael, told Good Morning America via a statement Saturday that Whitney Houston’s fans should direct their anger at the family member (Tina Brown … Bobby Brown’s aunt) who first snapped the 2006 photo. It was then sold and originally published in the National Enquirer.

“Not to be divisive, but I’m of a different mindset when it comes to situations like this. People will automatically look to people like Pusha T and Kanye West and try to place blame or say they have ill or malicious intent in order to gain publicity. But I get it. I get the correlation (sans my aunt but the photo itself),” Gary Michael Houston said in a statement, “and I actually love the album.”

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Gary Michael Houston continued …

“Bottom line — they are artists and in this day and age, if they can afford to pay someone for usage of that photograph in order to convey a visual message to accompany their musicianship … then so be it,” the hip hop artist added.

Gary Michael Houston continued in the statement that “the bigger issue is deeper and one that most people (including folks who claim to be so heartbroken and traumatized by the usage of the photo) choose to conveniently ignore and bypass.”

“The person who violated the trust of my aunt by taking the photo and selling it to tabloids for their own personal and/or financial gain is more of a travesty to me,” he told GMA in a statement. “People should research that — because whoever exposed it are the people who violated her trust, mistreated her, and who should ultimately be held accountable for contributing to circumstances surrounding her demise.”

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Gary Michael Houston then defended West, 40, who produced Pusha T’s album, “Daytona,” and chose its cover art, which he revealed earlier this week on Twitter.

“The person who violated the trust of my aunt by taking the photo and selling it to tabloids … is more of a travesty to me.

“’Ye nor Push are the reasons this is a topic,” he said. “The conniving people who leaked it are. Anyone speaking out about this is a ‘dollar late and a day short.’ The photo is public, it already happened…nobody came to her defense when she was alive and when it came out initially, so why champion the cause now?”

“In summation, I think I speak for rest of my immediate family when I say that we are focused on way more important things than an old photo,” Gary Michael Houston added, before promoting an upcoming documentary about the late singer called, “Whitney.”

“The estate has an amazing documentary that is set to debut July 6 in the U.S. that gives insight about my aunt — the person and the icon. We are focused on keeping her legacy alive by acknowledging her talent and giving insight that may lead to understanding and empathy rather than the judgement and criticism she experienced while she was alive. Nothing else matters,” he concluded.

It was just last week that we reported that Damon Elliott, a music producer and the son of Houston’s cousin Dionne Warwick, said he was “shocked” by the photo.

“To do something for a publicity stunt to sell records, it’s absolutely disgusting,” he told People magazine. “It hurt my family and my daughter. It’s petty. It’s tacky.”

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