Taking a look back at her career, Tinashe regrets her 2015 collaboration with Chris Brown and R. Kelly. Back in 2015, while Tinashe was signed to RCA, she teamed up with Chris Brown for a song called ‘Player’. Shortly after, she collaborated with R. Kelly for ‘Let’s Be Real Now’ arrived.
In a new interview with the Zach Sang Show, Tinashe looked back on her collaborations with R. Kelly and Chris Brown with a sense of discomfort, addressing that the record label she was signed with at the time gave her very little choice but to take part along with the artist duo.
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Tinashe Regretted Collaborating With Chris Brown And R.Kelly
It wasn’t Tinashe’s idea to work alongside male musicians with histories of sexual misconduct. In a recent interview with the Zach Sang Show, Tinashe, “You think I wanted to collaborate with those artists? I block out that R. Kelly song from my mind. I forget that it even exists. That is so embarrassing. That is so unreal that I even have a song with R. Kelly.”
She further 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 now it isn’t fair for Tinashe to face scrutiny over her past releases.
Adding on Tinashe also said, “Especially when it comes to singles, for example — that song with Chris Brown. 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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Chris Brown Reacts To Tinashe’s Comments on Collaborating With Him
Tinashe has now become an independent artist. Just last week, she released her latest album BB/ANG3L in partnership with Nice Life Recording Company. Taking a hit at his ego, Chris Brown reacted to the headline about Tinashe regretting her 2015 collaboration with him, which she said was a label decision, tweeting on X, previously known as Twitter, “NAME 5 TINASHE songs or die…. EVERYBODY DEAD.”
Chris Brown reacts to headline about Tinashe regretting her 2015 collaboration with him, which she said was a label decision:
— Pop Base (@PopBase) September 17, 2023
“NAME 5 TINASHE songs or die…. 👀 EVERYBODY DEAD 💀” pic.twitter.com/1YeaOV9YuM
Go, Crazy singer, has a history of reported violence against women. Chris Brown is claimed to have assaulted his then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009. In 2021, R. Kelly was found guilty on all nine charges brought against him by the government including sex trafficking and racketeering, at the end of a federal trial in New York.
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