Tamar Davis: Milk, Honey, and The Xtra Juice - 3:10 p.m.

Who can argue with that? Juice, gravy, extra syrup on the waffles and pancakes, it seems as though Page Six poured the extra syrup on a recent blurb about Prince splitting up with his wife Manuela in favor of younger, fresher, flesh in the name of Tamar Davis. The story goes that Prince has been so concerned with Tamar and her career that wifey felt slighted and apparently felt the heat in their relationship had flamed out.

With divorce papers served to Prince, Manuela Testolini-used-to-be-Nelson is on her own. A 'source' gave Page Six this quote about Prince and Tamar.

"He is trying to get her [Tamar] signed with a major label and has her doing the rounds. Everyone takes the meeting because of Prince, but she's just a pretty girl singing Prince songs. It is not very good. He hasn't found a taker, but he is smitten with her."

Fact check: Tamar already has a record deal.

She signed with Universal Records in December 2005, around the same time Prince inked the papers. Her debut album Milk and Honey will be released on August 29th.

Check the cover.

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Check Herspace

There is something about that cover which old souls and crate diggers will have flashbacks of: Ohio Players album covers. This one in particular... Honey. And when you're talking Ohio Players you have to talk Skintight. Yes, the days when exposed flesh was done in an artistic manner, (that's artistic), you know, sans straight donkey shot at the camera.

In any case. Tamar has the looks and quotes of being the real deal.

"I can't write or sing anything without knowing the reason behind it," says Davis. "Once that idea is established, I make sure to tell a story that allows the listener to visualize and experience the song with me."

Speaking on recording her album at Prince's Minneapolis studio she says.. "This album was driven first by the bass line. I'd sit at the piano and play the bass line. Then I'd bring in live musicians to build on that bass line. Afterwards, I would harmonize a melody on top of that, just humming or singing la, la, la. The longer I grooved to the track, I would begin to feel something personal."

MTV did an Overdrive piece on her recently, she spoke about being in a group with Beyonce called Girl Tyme.. before it morphed into Destiny's Child she opted out of the group to pursue solo ambitions after a tape her cousin slipped to Prince caught his ear. Prince expressed interest and offered her a production contract. That was when she was 14-15 years old. Ten years later.. here we are.

Tamar told Overdrive..

"Beyonce and I were cool, Kelly was in the group at the time. We did Star Search and things like that and lost on there. Of course it's weird because you're looking and you're like, 'Whoa, my friends are really on TV, and then you're kinda like, 'uh, did I make a wrong decision?'"

A ten year buildup seems an eternity but Tamar says even two years ago she wouldn't have been ready..

"mentally physically, spiritually, emotionally or anything. So to be a part of it now, it's like everything that I fought for, everything that I cried for, everything that I stayed up all night for, you know, spending money on, it's paying off now."

B-Day numbers she will not see come album release date, but I'd guess that it's gratifying just to see the album and her career finally see the light.

Nothing in there says Manuela's suspicion of an affair are true, but if I may get my syrup bottle out, sprinkle a little speculation.. It would be the first time that Prince has traded shades. You know, every woman he's ever publicly been with Vanity, Appolonia, Mayte.. Manuela, have all been caramel/cream complexioned dimes. Here he is walking around with a milk chocolate bar. It's the evolution of souls; the dawn of the new age BET era Prince. I ain't mad at him. Unlike Robert he had the patience to wait for any possibility of a relationship NOT to require calling up a lawyer and buddying up with the Rev. *booo hoo hoo. *fake sniffle* I've got a problem!*

*capping the syrup bottle*