Former friends Elle Varner and K.Michelle have seen their currently volatile relationship thrown into the light today, after the latter took to ‘Hot 97’ to accuse Varner of stealing from her.
Hitting the outlet to promote her hotly anticipated TV musical, Michelle bared all when asked why she and Varner (with whom she shared a management team with) were no longer pals, revealing that the performer intentionally copied and released a cut she knew she had intended to release herself with the full backing of their managers.
How things took a turn for the worst?
Her story below…
On Elle, Michelle claims:
You guys be looking at people on TV and you guys get a perspective of people cos you see them and they might not go off on Twitter. You don’t get to see the behind the scenes. In that situation (the feud), management was like “she’s worse than you”, but because I speak out on something I’m wrong. I had a record and it was my favourite record and it was ‘Ride Out’ on my album and I wasn’t allowed to put out that record cos management said the record was “too big.”
When asked what she thought her managers meant by that, she explained:
I’m supposed to be the little black girl singing about heartbreak and being down and out. I’m not supposed to grow or be me. They place you in a lane and they want you to stay there and I refused so I had this record and it was “too big” and it would have to be worked in every radio format. So in that situation, I remember I played that record for Elle and the next thing I knew she jumped and said “this is a great record.” She went through a breakup afterwards and was searching for identity and she was hanging around me and then one day she plays me a record and says “you like the record?” and I say “that’s my record.”
Going onto claim that Varner sought out that the same producers to recreate her signature sound, Michelle explains that she informed all the parties involved in handling the song that she did not want the ‘I Don’t Care’ singer to release the number as it sounded identical to her own.
I go to my management and express the concern and they promise that it’d be handled but she’s the princess even though I’m the only one over there making any money. They told me they didn’t like the record and that it wouldn’t even be coming out. The next thing I know she’s singing it.
What happened next?
Hit the 13 minute mark below…