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cyber attack by bully who says I offended the prophet Mohammed

After the second shoot of the video, I put one of the photos up on my facebook as a profile picture, the photo is of me standing up, hands on my waist in the sexy black outfit, underneath the photo I wrote ‘styled by Raniya Mohammed’.

Not long after I put up the photo, I had many positive comments about the photo, however one person commented on the picture and asked me to remove the name ‘Mohammed’ from the caption because the name fell below my foot, and that it’s disrespectful to put their prophet’s name there. From my point of view I thought that there’s many people named Mohammed, it happened to be my stylist’s, if anything I’m respecting her by crediting her name on the caption, especially after all the hard work she has done, so I gave my thought on that one, wrote to him that I have no intention of disrespecting any religion, I don’t have the control on where the caption is put on facebook, but for now I’ll leave the name there. Unfortunately that was not good enough for this person who then went on to curse me with bad luck, etc.. I don’t have the time and energy to argue with people who have no sense, it’s never been my style, especially when you can tell that they are not willing to see sense. So I just removed him completely from my facebook.

The next thing I know I had a phone call from a friend that someone had been writing crazy things all over my facebook, some Chinese girl, Although I mostly manage my facebook my record company and management are also very much involved and we discussed this latest development. They thought it was some crazy girl looking for some exposure, however deep down I could not help but feel it had something to do with that guy who wanted me to remove the name Mohammed, and I told them so. We eventually found out that they knew each other! Not only did they know each other but this guy (who was offended by the name Mohammed being under the foot of my picture) had many Chinese girls on his site all draped over him while he stood there with play guns and army gear! This girl was obviously one of his disciples, and it was clear to me that this person was used to having young Asian women around him that he could control! He may have made the mistake of thinking that I would also fall under his spell or could also be controlled in the same way. Anyway she commented on about 80 of my photos and even on the posts that my friends and fans had sent me. I had to apologise for causing hassle and stress for my people. I had a lot of people defending me and that was the best thing to come out of all of this. I realise that in this business this kind of thing will happen, people will say a lot of things and it was great for me to see that people stood up for me and I really did not have to say much.


She took a step further by sending nasty personal messages to every single person who has defended me! In the end I reported her along with others, I didn’t bother answering her as her comments were pure evil and did not make sense and showed a very low mental and educational state. To cut a long story it did not end there, several fake I.d’s later and some very nasty messages it all came to an end.


My stylist felt bad that this whole thing started because of her name, and asked me to use her initials in the future, I sat down and thought how could this be her fault? She doesn’t choose who her parents are and her name. It was a shame, because obviously this guy is not carrying a full deck of cards and it can reflect badly on Muslims. We have to have respect other people’s lifestyle, maybe I should have just removed it the first time? But I couldn’t do it without giving my reasons, and I’m sure that we could have come to a much better conclusion if he had not been so rude. I don’t take threats from anyone, Stevie will not tolerate that kind of thing from anyone. I have found that it does not take much for some people to turn on you and facebook seems to be the perfect place for people of no consequence to make their name. I have learnt to be more careful and unfortunately a bit less trusting and also to be grateful for some of my supporters like Adam who watch out for me on places like facebook.


I’m sure these things will happen more in the future, this wasn’t the first time either! That’s just the way it is. But at least I have a taster now, and learning to deal with people like that in the future is important, even though I know I will have people to handle those kind of situations.

Ayi Jihu

Pink boa’s are my playthings

After the successful shooting of the video, my producer had a good look at the product to see what was missing! We wanted to add a bit to add polish to what we had.

For this shoot, we went to a studio in central London where he had more control over the lighting and background and could try some special effects . Raniya styled me with black pencil skirt black vest top high heels for the ‘business look’ with a furry small jacket, black laces gloves, my hair all swept back with a black bow on top and bright lips, when I looked in the mirror, it looked more like the Shanghai styled women, that classic Chinese look with a Chinese dress it’ll be the real Shanghai look! Loved that look, never felt so comfortable with my hair swept back, also with the second scene I shot with all black the ‘dominatrix look’ lol felt confident with hair back and more free to move around!
The whole point of the video and this part in particular is to focus the audience on me and the song and not too much else. The lyrics to the song are strong and I really wanted people to get where I was coming from with it. That is part of the reason we did not put too many people or distractions in the video. I was saying to the producer before we even shot the video that I have watched so many Michael Jackson videos and they are so good you don’t even pay attention to what he is singing about, you are just amazed by the visual aspect. I’m no Michael Jackson but I wanted people to concentrate on what ‘Smak Dat’ is all about and not on dancers, fireworks or anything else, just little me a camera and the song.

We shot the first part with a plain white background, Stevie gave me some ideas on what he thought I could do on certain bits of the track and I put my own ideas to work too, a bit of moonwalk in high heels and some with the Eagle’s cane! It was very hot and sweaty dancing in that furry jacket! I had to call on many sides of my personality, my rapping side too which I love but do not often show! Another scene with just my face on a still camera, black and white so my red lips really stood out, looked amazing. My favourite part was when I was just dancing around, having fun with a pink boa as if I was dancing in front of a mirror in my bedroom, for that scene the background was changed to all black, when I looked back to the scene, it looked absolutely amazing the dark back ground worked so well with the black and white shoot, my red lips and the pink boa really came out perfect, and it showed that I was having fun and being myself. What I hope it shows most though is just me. This video is meant to show some of the different people inside me, but most of all show that I am not afraid.

Finally after a whole day of preparing and shooting, we wrapped up! Thanks to the whole crew that made it all possible! Special thank you to my friend Amy for joining me in the car scenes. I’m not sure if it is the same for everyone but this video took 5 days to shoot just for 3 minutes! I have done TV shows, loads of interviews and things of this nature and it never ceases to amaze me just how many people work for weeks behind the scenes to bring us a few minutes of pleasure. At the centre of all of that was me and at times it feels really weird having all these people run around you, make you up, dress you, feed you drive you around and pamper you. But then I realise that it is because if it works and it is successful it pays for their cars, homes and holidays and it is their livelihood and that makes me want to work even harder and do my best because this is after all a business too.

Ayi Jihu

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