OKP: So, now back to the song about you, where YOU are the star. What was your first reaction when you heard that “Ms Jackson” won the Grammy?
KMW: I thought that it should, especially if it was about me I thought that it should [laughs]. No, I’m just joking. Well first of all let’s clear the air. Let’s get this out of the way: I totally adore Andre Benjamin as a person. As a person he is a great and sensitive and quietly-spirited individual. Now let’s get that out of the way. And now since I know him a little bit, I mean since I know him personally, I know that that is altogether true. I only wanted the best because it comes through his music, it comes through whatever he does. He is genuinely a great guy and for all genuinely great guys or gals or anybody who are good people I want them to do well and I want them to excel and I want them to have the best. So since it was Andre and since I knew him, I was thrilled that he got the Grammy because he certainly deserved it.
On the next page Erykah’s momma explains how she felt about 3 Stacks when she first met him…
OKP: Completely. What was your first impression of him when you first met him? Did he ever come home for Thanksgiving dinner or anything?
KMW: Yeah. He is a quiet guy, like I said. I would say he is a quiet-spirited guy, real sweet guy, but of course as all moms…well, are you a parent?
OKP: I am not yet a parent, no…
KMW: Okay, so here we go. Nobody was ever going to be good enough for Erykah or Kory; nobody. There hasn’t been a person MADE who I thought was going to be good enough for them. So of course I was very, very apprehensive about him. I didn’t know the guy at first but after I got to know him, he was good–and his mother was great. He came from great parents; His mom and dad are great people, especially his mother who I grew to adore. So that fruit didn’t fall far from the tree. He was manner-able and that meant a lot, very respectful. He has been raised right and that impressed me a lot when I first met him.
OKP: That’s exactly how you imagine Andre Benjamin would be. When you first heard the song…what did you think when you first heard it, this song dedicated to you–apologizing to you?
KMW: I didn’t know what to think. I had to listen to it over and over because first I had to figure out if I was being insulted–I had to figure out what vein it was in! I didn’t know, because–with a lot of music during that time–I didn’t know where it was coming from, because that wasn’t my genre of music. After I listened to it and listened to it I said, Oh, this might not be too bad. This might be harmless; this might be apologetic, this may be okay. So when I felt that it wasn’t being an insult or disrespectful, then I kind of settled into it.
Did “Queeny” think that “Ms. Jackson” was a diss at first? Find out the last page.
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OKP: That’s exactly how you imagine Andre Benjamin would be. When you first heard the song…what did you think when you first heard it, this song dedicated to you–apologizing to you?
KMW: I didn’t know what to think. I had to listen to it over and over because first I had to figure out if I was being insulted–I had to figure out what vein it was in! I didn’t know, because–with a lot of music during that time–I didn’t know where it was coming from, because that wasn’t my genre of music. After I listened to it and listened to it I said, Oh, this might not be too bad. This might be harmless; this might be apologetic, this may be okay. So when I felt that it wasn’t being an insult or disrespectful, then I kind of settled into it.
Ms. Jackson is a real one.
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