Again in 2015, whereas Tinashe was signed to RCA, she teamed up with Chris Brown for a tune referred to as “Participant.” Shortly after, her R. Kelly team-up “Let’s Be Actual Now” arrived. On Wednesday (Sept. 12), the singer mirrored on working with two males accused of abuse in a brand new interview with the Zach Sang Present.
“I actually block out that R. Kelly tune from my thoughts. I overlook that it even exists,” she stated in a clip from the interview posted to TikTok. “That’s so embarrassing. That’s so unreal that I actually have a tune with R. Kelly. That’s so embarrassing.”
She added that she was “so younger” when “Let’s Be Actual Now” got here out, with Sang noting that there’s not a variety of “management” over collaborators if you first signal to a label and that it wasn’t truthful for Tinashe to face scrutiny over the releases.
“Particularly in terms of singles, for instance — that tune with Chris [Brown],” Tinashe replied. “That was a tune that all of us wished it to be this huge second, this huge single. So I really feel like, of their thoughts, they had been like, ‘You want the help.’ He was their largest artist that that they had on rhythmic radio on the time. To me, I used to be like, ‘Effectively, it is a pop tune. So, I actually don’t really feel like we must always put Chris on it.’ That doesn’t compute to me, however I don’t know.”
Brown has a historical past of reported violence in opposition to ladies, relationship again to his 2009 assault of then-girlfriend Rihanna. R. Kelly, in the meantime was discovered responsible in 2021 on all 9 prices introduced in opposition to him by the federal government, together with racketeering and intercourse trafficking, on the finish of a federal trial in New York.
Tinashe left RCA in 2019 and signed with Good Life Recording Firm earlier this yr. See the interview clip beneath.
