According to Billboard, Tinashe is dishing on some of the work she is not proud of.
Back in 2015, while Tinashe was signed to RCA, she teamed up with Chris Brown for a song called “Player.”
Shortly after, her R. Kelly team-up “Let’s Be Real Now” arrived.
On Wednesday (Sept. 12), the singer reflected on working with two men accused of abuse in a new interview with the Zach Sang Show.
“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.”
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@zachsangshow “I block out that song from my mind” @Tinashe on working with R. Kelly #tinashe #rkelly #embarrassing #zachsangshow #zachsang #fyp #foryou @Amp ♬ original sound – Zach Sang Show
Tinashe left RCA in 2019 and signed with Nice Life Recording Company earlier this year.
Tinashe just dropped an album BB/Ang3l.
Here is the R Kelly song:
and the collab with Chris Brown:
