When you’ve worked in the music industry as long as Winter Ramos, you are bound to have witnessed an array of things, heard a few whispers and been involved in a few bad relationships.
We know Winter Ramos as the chick who slept with our favorite artists. Her introduction on “Love & Hip Hop” was an unflattering mess that led to a title Winter doesn’t want other women to aspire to. The Latina businesswoman has done pretty much every job in the music industry. She’s worked closely with Fabolous and was involved with Ja Rule, Ashanti and Irv Gotti during the Murder Inc reign. But it wasn’t until recently, that the jack-of-all-trades became a house hold name. TV has that kind of power. After a few small appearances on VH1’s “Love & Hip Hop,” Winter gained a negative notoriety directly related to the lifestyle she openly flaunts. Perhaps her book “Game Over,” can shed some light on her past and current state of mind. We spoke with Winter about the memoir and what she really wants the world to know about her career.
HelloBeautiful: We want to give you the chance to reintroduce yourself because your introduction on the show was less than flattering…
Winter Ramos: It’s so funny because that introduction happened over a course of four different interviews. I grew up in Brooklyn so I came up under Junior Mafia, Big and Puff and seeing that expand to what it was. I wanted to be apart of it but I didn’t know where to fit in, in the industry. As time went by I started to meet new people and I met a woman who was styling for Foxy and it was something I was really interested in. I knew a guy named Ben 10, who was the head of marketing at Murder Inc. He offered me a position styling for Irv, Ashanti an Ja Rule. There came a moment when the money wasn’t consistent so I needed something that would bring in a check every week. Fab’s manager called me, I knew him from the neighborhood, and he asked me if I would be interested in being their assistant. It was something that was only supposed to be a couple of weeks and ended up being three years long. It was a great experience. It was definitely something I was good at. After that, I fell in love and moved to Miami where I was born and decided to try to find work. I started working at Slip N’ Slide records, I was the assistant to Ted Lucas–The CEO. The label had kinda fallen back from putting out music after Trina left. Gutta, Rule’s manager, hit me up one day and was like do you want to do costume design? I worked for Flava Unit.
HB: How did your chopped & screwed intro make you feel?
WR: I didn’t say all of that at the same time. How it really went was, I slept with some of these guys, I worked with some of these guys, I’ve been in situations when I’ve been around the wives, the baby’s mothers, the girlfriends and side pieces. I did sleep with some of them. When you work in this industry this is your life, this is your lifestyle. When you’re in the studio all times of night and you’re a nice looking female, these guys are going to approach you. I’m not a bad looking girl and these black guys are super attracted to Spanish women. My whole thing is, if I don’t tell you, they’re going to find out anyway.
HB: Your book touches on you slept with, tell us about it.
WR: The book is about my experiences in the music industry, whether it was a job experience or me in the middle of a domestic violence situation. It isn’t just I slept with him, I slept with him or he’s wack in bed. For me it’s for the girls who watch “Love & Hip Hop” and watch music videos and see the nice cars and jewelery. That’s what your seeing but know what goes on behind the scenes. This is what I went through and I’m not ashamed of what I did, but there are things I would have done differently. You cant question what I did, the question should be does she continue to do this and the answer is I don’t because I’m older now. I want young ladies to know you don;t have to just be a girlfriend or a video girl!
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