Kandi Burruss defended Justin Timberlake’s Blaccent at BravoCon this week.
Fans dragged the pop singer online after Britney Spears’ audiobook revealed that he once used a thick Blaccent when meeting Ginuwine.
“I don’t want anybody to, like, down Justin because you’ve got to remember the times that we were going through at the time,” she told Page Six. “That era of pop and R&B, it was a lot of boy bands that did, like, urban music, urban routines and dancing, the whole image. That was in at the time, and nobody was passing judgment.”
She continued: “I just feel like that was young Justin. Leave him alone, y’all,” she said. “He was a really, really good guy.”
A clip of the audio book, narrated by Michelle Williams is circulating online.
“His band NSYNC was what people called back then ‘so pimp’. They were white boys but they loved Hip Hop. To me, that’s what separated them from the Backstreet Boys, who seemed very consciously to position themselves as a white group. NSYNC hung out with Black artists,” she reads.
An excerpt from Britney Spears' book says that Justin Timberlake once greeted Ginuwine by saying:
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"Oh yeah. Fo' shizz. Fo' shizz. Ginuwine, what’s up homie?"pic.twitter.com/jWDemEfzW6
She continued: “Sometimes, I think they tried too hard to fit in. One day, J and I were in New York going to parts of town I’d never been to before. Walking our way was a guy with a huge blinged-out medallion. He was flanked by two giant security guards. J got all excited and said so loud, ‘Oh yeah, fo shizz, fo shizz. Ginuwine! What’s up, homie?’ After Ginuwine walked away, Felicia [Britney’s former assistant] did an impression of J. ‘Oh yeah, fo shizz, fo shizz. Ginuwine!’ J wasn’t even embarrassed. He just took it and looked at her like, ‘Okay, f-ck you, Felicia.’”
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