Lil Mama has actually opened regarding her well known collapsing of JAY-Z and Alicia Keys‘ VMAs performance back in 2009, making it clear that the fallout afterwards left her “hurt.”
That’ s the admission she made throughout a meeting on The Jay Hillside Network on Thursday (March 14), where she likewise disclosed that the succeeding reaction took a significant toll on her psychological health and wellness.
“Yeah, in the beginning, I was hurt,” she started. “Tyrese called my phone as soon as I got home. He was like, ‘Bro, you didn’t tell me you was performing!’ First of all, my heart is racing. I’m already mad embarrassed.
“I had to deal with Ed Lover on the radio in the morning, Wendy Williams, Angie Martinez, who talked to JAY, and he was just like, ‘Yeah, you know. I didn’t like it.’ He was so angry, and I was just trying my best to do everything I could do. After a while, I was like, ‘Forgive yourself, bro. Move forward.’”
She proceeded: “Bro, I was hurt. I was depressed. I was like, ‘Yo, what’s going on?’ And then you got everybody telling you, ‘You’re doing bad.’ People pointing at you, like, ‘What did you do?’”
The remarks regarding the VMAs start at the 2:35 mark listed below.
Back in 2009, Alicia Keys joined JAY-Z to do their hit tune “Empire State of Mind” at the MTV VMAs.
Lil Mama was, evidently, so relocated by the performance that she jumped onstage to function as the informal hypeman– also as Hov’s better half, Beyoncé, unsuccessfully attempted to quit her from coming to be a Twitter trending subject by consistently pulling her arm.
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In Spite Of Lil Mama coming to be the punchline of lots of jokes later, Keys informed The Early morning Hustle in October 2021 that she had not been also knowledgeable about the rap artist’s visibility.
“Listen, to this day, I truly never knew she was even on the stage — that’s the craziest part of the whole thing for me,” she claimed. “I was on that stage, [JAY-Z] was in the middle, she was on the other side of Jay, and I never saw her.”
After that, back in March 2023, Keys and Lil Mama shared a cozy accept at an occasion in New york city City as Teyana Taylor viewed. While it’s uncertain what the occasion was for– though Rebellion recommended it was to commemorate Taylor’s most recent movie, A Thousand and One — it’s the video clip of the “Girl on Fire” vocalist and the “Lip Gloss” rapper-turned-actor that sent out social media sites right into a tizzy.
“God is Moving all up and through this MF!” created one commenter. “Hope she apologized again cause man…” created one more.
