By: Amanda Anderson-Niles
Kandi Burruss may be a reality television star now and savvy business woman, but before that, she was one of the lead singers of R&B group Xscape. Although the girl group had numerous hits and quite a bit of success in the music industry, they met the same fate as most girl groups and eventually split due to drama that was occurring between the singers. It’s always been speculated that Kandi might have been a huge reason behind the group’s demise, as rumors suggested she was sleeping with their producer Jermaine Dupri. Although Jermaine Dupri denies he ever messed around with Kandi and blames the group’s end on singers wanting to compete with one another a little too much, Kandi did admit that she did sleep with Jermaine in one of her interviews. But the rumors about Kandi got even nastier eventually, and it’s rumored that one of her former group members LaTocha Scott was going around telling people that Kandi was sleeping with Jermaine’s father.
Regardless, it’s pretty clear that the group still isn’t on good terms with one another, so it’s speculated that could be the main reason Kandi opted not to reunite with Xscape and perform at the recent So So Def Anniversary concert.
In a recent interview with V-103’s Big Tigger, Kandi confirms that she has beef with some of the girls in the group, and she also confirmed that she really doesn’t want to reunite with them. She also hinted that one of the girls is responsible for spreading that nasty rumor about her and Jermaine’s father, and she even took a second to put Bow Wow in his place for slamming her recently about not showing up to the So So Def reunion despite the fact that Tiny didn’t show up either.
On Bow Wow’s rant, Kandi says:
“He’s just focusing on me, and not saying nothing about her because he doesn’t want to get the smack down from Tip.”
Kandi even suggests that she feel like the other girls (except Tiny) still don’t care for her and as a result, she doesn’t feel comfortable doing a reunion:
“To this day now, I have to see people try to say that I had sex with Jermaine’s father. She said that just to make me look bad to people. She came back to apologize to me, but she never apologized in public. It’s not true. It was a flat-out lie. When people do stuff to try to damage you or bring you down to the public, that’s hateful.
“That’s [a reunion] just not something I want to revisit.”
Kandi doesn’t need to keep talking about this. We get it. And I think it’s pretty clear that Xscape will never be again.
Agree….KEEP IT REAL & KEEP IT MOVIN!
Time to move on. And I say that for all of them. They haven’t been a group in years. Tiny and Kandi are the most successful ones out the group so I’m sure there’s plenty of jealousy behind the beef as well.
Agreed! Those other girls are just jealous of Tiny and Kandi because they actually do need the group to reunite for them to have careers again. They should have played it smart like Tiny and Kandi did. Nothing lasts forever in the music business. The songwriters makes the most money anyway.
I agree as well. Sounds like the other two girls are bitter that they aren’t as successful after the group ended.
Damn ole girl was spreading rumors? I don’t blame Kandi for not wanting to reunite with them. These girls are nasty.
Typical girl group drama. What’s new?
Bridges were obviously burned between everyone except Kandi and Tiny. No one should act surprised that neither one of them showed up to the reunion, including JD. He can pretend he had nothing to do with things, but he probably did. I don’t think Kandi would lie about sleeping with JD, that’s actually nothing to brag on. lol
Kandi and Tiny are filthy rich. I wouldn’t want to reunite with salty broke chicks either. Lmbo.
LOL. #RealTalk
Ok yes them scotts is hatin mad af kandi an tiny sittin on old money still makin new money latasha gonna ride R&b divas until the wheels fall off lmao
I’m glad she echoed what I said about Bow Wow only coming after her and not Tiny with his irrelevant a-s. He’s laughable ..
I don’t blame Kandi. I can forgive when you do me wrong, but I sure won’t forget! And I thought one of them sisters was on that show Sisterhood Wives or something like that on TLC.
The one on Sisterhood was in the group for 5 mins. She was replacing someone (I think she was replacing Kandi).
1st let me say this bow wow home gurl have a seat several ….2nd Kandi boo f-ck wat the next think of yu gurl keep gettin your money boo i only like you an tiny any wayz them scotts alwayz up tu no gud all be cyz they mad an them goes salty …f-ck em kandi boo