Gimme Gimme Gimme that Groupie Love!

"See how things change at first they didnt want me now they want me/
See a ni**a gettin paid they wanna push up on me/
You see these hoes chasing a ni**a/
Have em in a hotel casing a ni**a/
Treat me like a lollypop like me baby/"

-- Groupie Love - G Unit

Today as a complete coincidence - and a few days after my last post about Plies' search for a Bust It Baby (again, WTF is that?) - I got an email via my membership to the UrbanFlavorz.com listserv. And an email that I read one paragraph of and thought was a complete joke/hoax, actually turned out to be a very real thing.

That thing would be Baller Alert. Here's the gist...

"a [text-messaging] service that informs it's users of when Professional Ball Players, Actors, or other Entertainers have arrived into parties. "

Club owners are allowed to promote free on the website with some other agreement between the owners of the website and club owners that "can't be revealed". I assume this means that there's some sort of kickback amount the website owners get through some sort of agreement between the club owner and the folks at Baller Alert. Interesting.

I actually think that from a business perspective this is a pretty good idea. People will always want to be at the clubs where the "stars be partying" and there will always be groupies who are extra pressed to be in the aura/area of famous people. And promoters and club owners win if they can get the celebs to come through and also work out a advertisement deal with the folks at Baller Alert. Again, great idea.

The even more intelligent aspect of Baller Alert is that it will not only alert women of men the ballin' males that enter a party, but men can sign-up as well for alerts of when the hot ladies come through a party. Yep fellas, some of you are groupies too! Don't front! LOL.

The downside to this whole concept is that in the end it's going to help further the materialistic, gold-digger mentality that some women have nowadays and can't grow/mature out of. And this service will definitely facilitate the "gimme that hoodrat to go" possibility in a lot of clubs across the country. We all know one or two gold-diggin', vain, materialistic chicks who are just out looking for guys with money to finance their activities for the evening. In a lot of cases, they don't need an actual celebrity, just someone who is willing to trick give his dough away all night. Not to say that these women are always taking advantage of a guy because sometimes men seek out women just to have attention/company and are more than willing to trick dish-out a little dough at the bar for just that reason.

In the end, I think this is a pretty shrewd business move and I am surprised no one had already thought of it and took it to this level.

Anecdotally, "Ballers w/Randoms..."