Hold up, y’all! Kelly Price is standing her ground! Despite the recent heat for saying Black women can be “nasty and disrespectful,” the R&B/Gospel star ain’t backing down. She’s doubling down and refusing to apologize.
Now, she might have found an ally in the boxing ring with Claressa Shields, who seems to co-sign her views on Black women. But the online chatter is still thick with critics coming at Price from all angles.
Some folks are calling her out for generalizing an entire group. Others are bringing up her own past “disrespectful” moments from the “R&B Divas: LA” days. Chile, you know how the internet detectives do!
But Kelly’s not budging. This week, she hopped on social media to make it clear: “I won’t apologize for having an opinion; I won’t apologize for having a voice. I will not apologize for expressing if I feel hurt.” Mic drop?
Okay, she did admit one thing. She regrets some of the language she used in her now-viral rant. “The biggest regret I do have about that were some of my choices of words,” she said. “If I had to say the exact same thing in the exact same way in front of my grandmother I wouldn’t be able to do it.” Point taken.
But the tea doesn’t stop there! Kelly also shared a story about a time she felt major disrespect in the music industry. Back in ’98, a music exec allegedly dissed her in favor of Mya.
According to Kelly, this exec compared her “big, fat” appearance to Mya’s “light-skinned, long-haired” look, suggesting she couldn’t compete with the rising star’s debut single, “It’s All About Me.” Ouch!
“This isn’t about coming against her,” Kelly clarified. “But my debut album ‘Soul of a Woman‘ outsold hers by nearly 30-40,000 records first week.” Okay then!
Of course, folks in the livestream immediately started questioning why she brought Mya into it. Kelly was quick to shut that down: “There’s no shade to any artist – that’s why I didn’t want to call her name,” she said. “I’m not going to have a negative Mya conversation. She’s an amazing artist who had great music and she’s beautiful.”
