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Tinashe says she regrets doing songs with Chris Brown & R. Kelly.
Tinashe is taking a stance against her past collaborations with Chris Brown and R. Kelly. The 30-year-old artist appeared on The Zach Sang Show this week, where she expressed her regret for being “forced” into making the songs by her former label, RCA Records.
In 2015, Tinashe, legal name Tinashe Kachingwe, made a guest appearance on R. Kelly’s “Let’s Be Real Now” from the disgraced artist’s 2015 album The Buffet. Since R. Kelly’s early career, allegations of sexual abuse and grooming surrounded the singer-songwriter, who’s now in prison for child sex crimes.
“I literally block out that R. Kelly song from my mind,” Kachingwe said. “I forget that it even exists. That is so embarrassing. That is so unreal that I even have a song with R. Kelly. That’s so embarrassing.”
Tinashe, who was signed to Sony’s RCA Records from 2012 through 2019, continued by explaining that she didn’t have control of what her label wanted to release, as was the case when RCA decided to add a Chris Brown feature to Tinashe’s 2015 single “Player.”
“You lack a lot of control in that situation,” she shared. “And especially when it comes to singles like the song with Chris – that was a song that we all wanted to be this big moment, this big single.”
“So I feel like in [the label’s] mind, they were like, ‘You need the support.’ And he was like their biggest artist that they had on rhythmic radio at the time. And 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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