I don't hate her. She was great in the beginning, when she first became popular. It's just that she got carried away with the drugs and alcohol, plus some bad publicity, and alot of people turned on her. There were some videos circulating showing her hitting a crack-pipe, which was one of the big things(certainly not the only one) that alienated her from the majority of our judgemental population. She transformed her public image into "super-crack-whore", and everybody either disassociated and abandoned, or made jokes about her(and abandoned). I certainly don't think it was her talent that was the problem.
Now, I've heard that smoking crack, etc... has destroyed her voice. That might just be another rumour about her, I'm not sure? I haven't heard her perform since her decline. Would be a shame though. 
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