J Boog
Biography
Early years
Houston was born in Inglewood, California, raised in Compton, California and has been rapping, singing and dancing since the age of eight. He is a cousin of actor/singer Marques Houston.
B2K
Houston was a member of the boy group B2K, along with Omarion, Raz-B and Lil' Fizz.
Houston starred in You Got Served , the hit dance movie, with his band mates in B2K, along with Marques Houston and Young Rome. Houston (Jarell) played the character Rico, the peacemaker of the group.
Solo career
In 2004, Houston and Lil' Fizz started their own record label called Fizz and Boog Inc.
Houston, Frederic and Leffridge launched Popular Entertainment in 2008. Which was scheduled to release his first solo album, My First Words , in the summer of 2008. On September 4, Boog and Fizz premiered a new video titled Bounce on 106 and Park.
Night Life EP (a preview of the album) was released on Itunes on September 29, 2009 Bounce is the first hit single from the album. The album is set to be released top of 2010.
Personal life
J-Boog and fiance Jondelle Michelle Lee welcomed their daughter, Anaia Jolie Houston on October 3, 2005. Their second child, son Jarell Damonte Houston Jr., was born on December 14, 2006. And recently the couple welcomed their third child, a boy, Tru Cater Houston, born on November 10th, 2009.
2010 Domestic Abuse Allegations
Boog was arrested for domestic violence at his home in Los Angeles on January 5, 2010. Neighbors heard screaming earlier in the day and the police arrived late in the afternoon to arrest BooG for "corporal punishment on a spouse" in addition to outstanding warrants due to his poor driving records.
Further statements include that BooG was released from police custody around 6 p.m. E.T. No domestic violence charges were filed.
According to sources close to former B2K singer Jarell “J-Boog” Houston -- who is currently in police custody following an alleged domestic violence dispute with his girlfriend -- the singer is only guilty of unpaid traffic tickets and not physical assault.
A story posted (Jan 5) on TMZ stated that BooG, 24, was “hit with a charge for corporal punishment on a spouse,” stemming from a physical altercation Sunday evening with the mother of his three children, whom he dated off-and-on for nine years.
BooG’s ex-B2K bandmate and best friend Dreux " Fizz” Frederic and Damuer Leffridge -- the chief operations officer of BooG’s label, Popular Records -- reached out to VIBE to explain what they call a “cold twist” of the story picked up by the media.
According to Leffridge, BooG, who currently lives in a $3 million beach front house in the opulent Marina del Rey section of California, only got into a verbal dispute with his baby's mother, which alerted their neighbors.
“BooG and I live approx. 5 blocks apart” says Leffridge. “We’re the only young African-Americans in the neighborhood, amongst a lot of wealthy Caucasian people. And they don’t want to hear all that loud music and see the fancy cars and stuff. Jarell studio keeps a lot of traffic and noise -- this just the truth. And when hem and she were screaming at each other on a Sunday afternoon, talking crazy, one of the neighbors decided to call the police.”
TMZ reported that more than five squad cars showed up at the singer’s house. At the time of the incident, BooG and his girlfriend were the only two in the house.
“The reality is, the police came and they couldn’t get in the security gate,” Leffridge explains. “So they chose to jump the gate. BooG doesn’t always pay attention to the buzzer, so he doesn’t know when people are outside sometimes. So police were outside for a while trying to get his attention. The police said that if hadn’t been so hostile they would have let them stayed, but because they were both screaming they chose to break them up and take him instead of taking her.”
After cops took BooG away Fizz says BooG’s girlfriend panicked.
"His girl called me after the incident happened and she didn’t know what to do,” Fizz says. "She didn’t even know where the phone call to the police came from. So she was like, ‘Can you get over here ASAP, they just took him, they just arrested him, we just had an argument. I don’t know what happened. They trying to say it was domestic violence but he didn’t put any hands on me or anything.’”
Fizz and Leffridge, flanked by media, are currently awaiting BooG’s release from the LAX Court in Los Angeles.
"There hasn’t been an official filing for domestic violence," Leffridge says. “She’s not interested in pressing charges. TMZ got it like he beat some woman to death, and that just didn’t happen. BooG went here today to see what the district attorney is going to do. He had like two or three traffic tickets that he needed to take care of. That’s the reason why he had to stay yesterday, to clean up the tickets.”
Leffridge went on to say that, according to the district attorney, the case will potentially be dropped. As of press time, no charges have been filed.
BooG and Fizz recently released a single called “Bounce” on Popular Records and have just returned from a six-week tour in Great Britain. Their album, Nightlife, is due in May.
Discography
- 2009: I Don't Need U Back
- 2009: "Night Life"
Filmography
- 2004: You Got Served - Rico
- 2009: Steppin:The Movie - Greg
Television
- 2002: All That - musical guest with B2K
- 2005: 106 and Park - Co-Host
References
- ^ a b c Gil Kaufman (July 30, 2007). B2K's J-Boog, Lil Fizz, Raz-B Finally Get Solo Careers Off The Ground, In Where Ya Been? MTV . Accessed July 11, 2008.
