THINGS THEY SAY: CASSIE-”I DON’T F*CK FOR CHECKS!”
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Check out the 21 year old Bad Boy artist, Cassie setting the record straight on a number of rumors in the August/September issue of Complex magazine.
On her vocal abilities:
“Based on my past and how my last album came out, I really need to come back much much stronger, I wanted to have more personality. I really want to tell a story when I’m doing a song. Vocally, either you like my voice or you don’t. I’m not trying to blow like Mariah, back when she was doing that. People used to give Ashanti a lot of shit, [1] and I saw her do the national anthem and kill it. I was like, maybe that’s something that I need to do to show people–I was afraid of the microphone and the stage, but I’m not anymore. I would definitely do something like that.”
On the harshest thing that’s been said about her:
“She’s fu***** for checks. I don’t f*** for checks–I’d rather live on the street.”
On her song “Official Girl” being a marketing ploy to cash in on the P.Diddy rumours:
“Nope. It wasn’t planned. It was just a song I really loved that I heard. Nobody will ever know who “Official Girl” is about. They think it’s about certain people but it’s not. Anything that happens in my personal life is personal. I never actually put anything out there. Nobody’s really known who I’ve dated.”
On her ethnicity:
“What’s funny about it is, when I was growing up, I wasn’t confused. I knew exactly what I was. My dad’s Filipino, my mom is Mexican, West Indian and black–I’m a little melting pot. In school, you were either black or white. Being Asian really wasn’t anything until I got to high school and was modeling all the time, and it was important because it intrigued people. Black people definitely didn’t claim me before. They were like, ‘Light skinned over there, she’s just not for us.’ It’s all perception. The other day, I was at the drugstore and this girl in line was like, ‘She’s next, the white girl.’ I’m not white. I’m not even close.”




















