Kandi Burruss shouldn’t be jealous of LaTocha Scott. The Xscape singer addressed the long-standing narrative on her YouTube earlier this week.
Her 50-minute Speak On It present highlighted episode two of SWV & Xscape: The Queen of R&B–throughout which Scott urged Kandi is and has been a hater.
“Here’s another thing that I didn’t like. Okay, so I have to address this on Speak On It because this has been said for years and it annoys me. I didn’t like that Tocha tried to allude that I had something to do with her damn solo project not coming out,” Kandi mentioned. “That annoys me. I feel like Tocha blames me for everything that has gone wrong in her life and I do not understand why.”
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Kandi admitted that they all the time have butted heads. Still, she insisted she doesn’t like being blamed for conditions she’s not round for.
On the Bravo TV present, LaTocha claimed Kandi developed a resentment as a result of she typically sang lead all through their group profession. She conversed together with her husband, Rocky Bivens, who mentioned Scott and Kandi “have just never been on the same page.”
“She was a young woman, you know, trying to make her way, and there were times when I would sing a song and she would just have a fit: ‘Oh why is she singing all the lead? Are you trying to set her up for a solo project? and Jermaine would be like, ‘No’ and so I think that developed a resentment,” Scott mentioned.
Burress addressed that declare on Speak On It by itemizing the songs she sang lead on from their first two albums.
“This has been said multiple times by her, and I guess other people… that I was so jealous, and I made it so hard for her. That the reason why she had to go solo and said that I was so jelaous of her singing lead,” Kandi said earlier than going via the tune listing.
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This isn’t the primary time the ‘jealous narrative’ has emerged between LaTocha and Burress. The pair of performers additionally mentioned their beef on Xscape’s first actuality present, XSCAPE: Still Kickin’ It. At the time, Burress instructed Scott her drawback was that Scott allegedly used their third album to arrange a solo deal. LaTocha denied this–admitting she was “caught between a rock and a hard place.”
But on The Queens of R&B, Scott additional urged that Kandi was not proud of Scott’s choice to do a solo challenge. She additionally claimed that Burress instructed her she wasn’t returning to the group.
“For some motive, my challenge obtained shelved after which inside that very same timeframe, Kandi obtained signed and her album got here out. It was a bit odd, the timing of all of it, “Scott mentioned on episode two.
As talked about earlier, Kandi addressed that–saying it annoys her. Burress additionally accused LaTocha of solely being invested of their group throughout downtime in her profession. She additionally alleged that Scott makes the group an issue each time she does have a deal on the desk.
“…But it really be because she has another opportunity where she feels like she don’t really need us anymore…when things are not going the way she wants them to go I guess personally with her personal music stuff then all of a sudden she got all the time in the world for Xscape but when she thinks she got a solo deal lined up or she got something else lined up. Now all of a sudden [LaTocha says] yeah I don’t know if I want to sing with y’all.”
Burress doubled down on her Speak On It feedback beneath TSR’s repost of her itemizing her leads. She wrote within the remark part:
“We got a lot a drama y’all… I’m sorry but I’m tired of the narrative being pushed that I was jealous of her. So I had to say how I feel. She has a beautiful voice & I am not saying I sing better at all. What I am saying is that my voice is distinctive & I hold my own & I was not jealous of her. So stop it! We went into our third album knowing she was goin solo so yes I had a lot to say about it because our shit was falling apart. 30yrs later we still goin through the same shit. We’re a mess! That was a lot but f**k it.”