While appearing on the Zach Sang Show, singer Tinashe recalled a time back in 2015, when she was signed to RCA. She awkwardly reflected on her collaborations with Chris Brown for a song called “Player,” and her collaboration with R. Kelly called “Let’s Be Real Now”.
via: Billboard
“I literally block out that R. Kelly song from my mind. I forget that it even exists,” she said in a clip from the interview posted to TikTok. “That is so embarrassing. That is so unreal that I even have a song with R. Kelly. That’s so embarrassing.”
She added that she was “so young” when “Let’s Be Real Now” came out, with Sang noting that there is not a lot of “control” over collaborators when you first sign to a label and that it wasn’t fair for Tinashe to face scrutiny over the releases.
“Especially when it comes to singles, for example — that song with Chris [Brown],” Tinashe replied. “That was a song that we all wanted it to be this big moment, this big single. So I feel like, in their mind, they were like, ‘You need the support.’ He was their biggest artist that they had on rhythmic radio at the time. To me, I was like, ‘Well, this is a pop song. So, I really don’t feel like we should put Chris on it.’ That doesn’t compute to me, but I don’t know.”
Brown has a history of reported violence against women, dating back to his 2009 assault of then-girlfriend Rihanna. R. Kelly, meanwhile was found guilty in 2021 on all nine charges brought against him by the government, including racketeering and sex trafficking, at the end of a federal trial in New York.
Tinashe left RCA in 2019 and signed with Nice Life Recording Company earlier this year.
I've always liked Tinashe. She sings and dances, and it's unfortunate that her label RCA (which quiet as it's kept has a reputation for not knowing what to do with their talent) dropped the ball with her.
It's also crazy that these labels will force artists on the come up to work with talent with questionable reputations, which usually ends up with singers like Tinashe getting dragged on social media.
Meanwhile, the labels just sit back and watch their talent get bullied on social media over a decision they ended up making for their talent which usually ends up being beyond the talent's control.
Check out the full interview below...
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