Tom Joyner, Angie Martinez, and Wendy Williams are catching Usher's wrath for their harsh treatment of his controversial fiancee, Tameka Foster, and speculating that she had something to do with Usher's mom being fired as his manager. Doesn't Usher know that when you lash out at all-powerful DJs, particularly when they actually had a reason to be talking about you, they will just laugh at you even more?

Joyner and sidekick J. Anthony Brown made much of Usher's fury last week aboard the Fantastic Voyage Cruise, where LL Cool J, the O'Jays and others performed during a Caribbean benefit for historically black colleges.

"Who's afraid of Usher?" asked Joyner, prompting laughter from ship guests. Joyner and Brown even invited anyone in the audience who knew Usher "to tell him we're not afraid of him." Usher is also said to have called WBLS host Wendy Williams and Hot-97's Angie Martinez to "ask them to lay off Tameka," a source tells us.

The personal call to Williams comes as a surprise to those who remember Usher hurling curses over his shoulder as he dashed away from the deejay on the red carpet of the Soul Train Awards a few years ago. (This was after Williams had invited Foster onto her show - only to kick her out of the studio when Foster failed to deliver the expected dish on why she was fired as Usher's stylist.)

When you are a celebrity and you've publicly made your bed — with a married, pregnant, controlling, ex-employee several years your senior — you've got to lie in it.

[NYDN]