Las Vegas Weekly

April 9, 2009 · 6:30 AM

Photo Galleries: Flo Rida and Teairri Mari ‘Cause a Scene’ in Sin City

By Robin Leach

Flo Rida and Teairra Mari.

Photo: Denise Truscello

The collection of dresses that R&B artist Teairra Mari wore while shooting her new music video would cause a scene wherever she went -- even if her new single wasn’t titled “Cause a Scene.” The Jay-Z discovery formerly known as “The Princess of Roc” while at the rap mogul’s Roc-A-Fella label filmed for 12 hours at Rain in the Palms as she readied her debut album release with Warner Bros. next month.

For the record (pun intended), Teairra parted ways with Jay-Z’s house of hits so she could complete her high school education and then return to the mad music world of savagely short skirts, fabulous flirty fashions and mind-blowing eye makeup.

While filming the music video, she wore one silver ensemble made up of pieces of mirror as a walking disco ball, and her gold crocodile hot pants sent temperatures sky high! Another outfit by designer Tom Tom was a sparkly, corseted, black one-piece that plunged so low, it almost met up with the cut-so-short hemline! Teairra posed provocatively in it for my own digital snapshot, and then winked to display the green and silver squared eye shadow!

“Cause a Scene” boomed out at almost deafening levels while the star, her guests and the cast shot take after take from different camera and tracking angles. Teairra explained to me that in one sequence, she plays a cocktail waitress at Rain to catch her cheating boyfriend with another woman. Needless to say, the drinks she was serving didn’t go down gracefully on the cocktail table, but … I’ll leave you to watch the video to see what she did with them!

Rap royal Flo Rida makes a cameo appearance in her new video, along with MLB’s Frank “The Big Hurt” Thomas. Our contributing photographers Erik Kabik, Denise Truscello and Scott Harrison were camera ready for all the action, which we’ve edited altogether for our photo gallery.

Born in Detroit, Teairra has appeared in multiple music videos with Jay-Z and LL Cool J, and later this year showcases her acting in The Magnificent Cooly-T with Jackie Long. Her first single “Make Her Feel Good” went to No. 9 on the R&B charts, and her debut album Teairra Mari reached No. 2 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop album charts. She also was a model for the Roca Wear ad campaign.

It was an extra long day for Flo Rida. After he finished singing for the cameras at Rain, he raced over to Blush in the Wynn and performed a 45-minute set while standing atop the bar there at 1:30 a.m. yesterday! During his performance, Flo Rida caused his own scene and made it rain by tossing $10,000 to the crowd. Fans surrounded him for photos and autographs! Professional poker player Antonio Esfandiari drank champagne and watched in quiet amazement.

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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