Sexyy Red is Billboard’s latest cover star! Ice Spice has teamed up with Pepsi’s lemon-lime soda STARRY for a commercial that will air during the Super Bowl. We all saw when Destiny’s Child reunited for ‘Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé’ but it looks like they were back together once more for a very special reason. Mel B of the Spice Girls is teasing a potential reunion that would feature all five members of the group. Justin Timberlake has wiped his Instagram, leaving fans wondering if he is releasing new music. And more!
Tetris Kelly
Destiny’s Child and the Spice Girls reunite. Justin Timberlake wipes his socials, Ice Spice is making her Super Bowl debut. Sexyy Red covers our Future of Hip-Hop issue and we sit down with Jeymes Samuel. It’s time for some Billboard News. I’m Tetris Kelly, it’s Tuesday, January 9th, and we continue our week of Billboard Future of Genre covers with Sexyy Red.
Sexyy Red
I wanted to be everything because I was good at everything. I used to think I was gonna be a painter. I used to be drawin’ a lot, designing my Barbie doll’s clothes. I used to be doing they hair. I knew I could do it. But I just didn’t know this is what I would be doing. I always knew because I was just different. I was weird. I was quiet. But everybody used to want to be my friend. I was pretty, my hair was real long. My mama knew how to dress me. Everybody used to just be like flocking to me. But I was weird, I was quiet. Like I was shy. I didn’t want to talk to nobody. But people still just, I don’t know, like I always been like that person for real.
Sexyy Red
My ex-boyfriend had cheated on me. So I had made a diss song about him. And then I rapped it to him. He was like, “Oh that’s hard, I liked that.” And it is when we would be around his friends, and he had me rap the song to his friends. And they was like “Oh, you actually can rap, they like you hard,” so then I was just like “For real?” And I went to the studio and made a real song. And then everybody was like “Send me the song, send me the song,” and people started booking me for parties and that’s how it started.
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