In a recent interview with ‘The Breakfast Club,’ Keri Hilson finally cleared up how she ended up on Beyhive’s bad side more than a decade ago. The singer admitted she feels “regret” over the track because the lyrics weren’t her original work. While Keri didn’t name-drop the writer, Ester Dean later confirmed that she wrote the lyrics. At first, Dean seemed to brag about her pen game. However, she later apologized to Hilson, but her word choice rubbed Keri the wrong way, and she made that KNOWN in a clapback response! Meanwhile, Beyoncé has yet to step into the public group chat.
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Keri Hilson Says She Repeatedly Refused To Record Diss Verse
For those who might be feeling a lil’ lost, back in 2009, a remix of Keri’s ‘Turnin Me On’ was leaked to the public. In a newly added verse, she sang:
“Your vision cloudy if you think that you’re the best / You can dance, she can sing / But she need to move it to the left, left,” Keri belted, which was a jab at Beyoncé’s 2006 single ‘Irreplaceable.’ “She need to go have some babies / She needs to sit down, she fake.”
As mentioned, Keri Hilson spoke to ‘The Breakfast Club’ hosts about the track, with Loren Lorosa leading the discussion. “Those are not my words,” she said. Hilson explained that she was on tour with Lil Wayne when producer Polow da Don asked her to do a remix to her song ‘Turnin Me On.’ At the time, she was signed to him and Timbaland through Interscope Records. Due to the tour, she was unable to lay the tracks down for a few weeks.
When Keri finally got around to it, she said Polow had invited “another writer” to their writers’ camp, who ended up writing the infamous verse. As mentioned, Keri didn’t identify the songwriter as Ester Dean in her interview. The singer also said she was against the verse from the beginning and voiced that.
“So I tried to fight him on it, and I began writing my own…but he, I want to be careful with the words I use. It was quite forceful, you know what I mean,” Keri said, alleging that Polow had involved “others” and threatened her career.
She added that he also threatened to hold back her debut album, which wasn’t out yet. Keri Hilson said she was “adamant” about her stance to the point of tears. Ultimately, though, the singer admitted that her mistake was “not continuing to fight” against recording the remix with the diss verse.
“I was super young, I felt I had no power, I felt I had no choice. But I did record my version with had nothing like that in it. It was on subject, the song was about men.”
Though Polow da Don had allegedly promised to shelf the diss track, it “leaked” days later. In response, Keri says she protected everyone involved, from the producer to the writer who went on to become famous. “I had to eat that and I’m still eating that to this day,” the singer said, pointing out that she’s still getting asked about the topic.
