Miss Kandi Burruss, the Real Housewives of Atlanta star, and former Xscape member is no stranger to the music and entertainment industry.
The songwriter behind TLC’s “No Scrubs”, and Destiny’s Child’s “Bug A Boo” , “Bills, Bills, Bills” was the first African American to win ASCAP’s songwriter of the year award back in 2000. Now, the singer turned reality tv star decided to tackle a Gospel tune (in which sparked a world of controversy) and called on Gospel force Marvin Sapp to help her out.
The Gospel Guru recently caught up with the stunning star, who dished on the success of her Gospel record, the controversy surrounding it, and much more…
The Gospel Guru: First, let me say congrats on the success of your single “Stay Prayed Up”! Were you at all surprised?
Kandi: Um. Well I prayed for it, I hoped for it…lol. I mean I don’t know if I thought it would happen that quickly, but it’s something you hope for…You hope that people will like the music. So I was surprised that it happened so quickly, but I hoped for it.
The Gospel Guru: It’s no secret that you sparked controversy and received a lot of controversy from doing this gospel record, how are you dealing with that?
Kandi: Well, at first I was a little…I don’t know…I think I was expecting the criticism but when It came so strong I didn’t expect it to come like that! Basically when I first told my friends that I was gonna do a gospel song they all kinda laughed and chuckled to themselves. But then when they heard the song, and saw how it was more of a testimony of me and what I was going through, and what gets me past the hard times and dealing with stuff they were like ok I get it now. Prior to hearing it people close to me where like nobody’s gonna want to hear that from you. But for me it was more of the thing of… I felt like ok back in the 90′s a lot of people who had an R&B album had a gospel song on it. Our first Xscape album had “Is My Living In Vain” on it. I wasn’t expecting people to come sooo hard…people on twitter can say whatever. It’s not like how it used to be when I first came into the industry…now people have direct contact to you. Some of the things people said I was like whoah they kinda hit below the belt a little bit. But it is what it is.
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*Check out Kandi’s New Gospel Song w/ Dr Marvin Sapp…”Stayed Prayed Up”
