KEYSHIA COLE COVERS ESSENCE

11Sep07

With her hit single “Let it Go” topping out the billboard charts, looks like Keyshia Cole is on the come up. The songstress will be featured on the cover of the October edition of Essence magazine, which is on news stands now. Keyshia talks about men and of course the constant comparisons to Mary J. Blige….check out some excerpts after the cut.


Here’s a snippet of the article where she discusses ending her relationship with Jeezy.

“I just couldn’t do it. It’s weird. After this guy proposed to me, I was like, dang, this is everything a woman lives for: to be married, with a ring, to be able to represent something. But for me, it was the opposite. I was scared. When you get married, you become one; you don’t live just for yourself anymore. I’m just not ready for that. I’m not done with my goals in life. What’s the word when you just kind of fall back and let your man do the man thing? Submit? I’m all jacked up on that word. I just couldn’t submit. But I loved him. That’s the crazy thing about it. It’s been hard because I really missed that child.”

Here she addresses constantly being compared to Mary J. Blige.

“I feel like we are very similar based on everything we’ve been through in our personal lives. It’s helped make us sing the way we sing. Because she didn’t have a vocal coach, and neither did I. And when I met her I told her, “You winning all those Grammy’s—congratulations—it gives me inspiration to this day that maybe I can do the same thing.” You know, it’s just a real big life circle. I think there are a lot of things that she could tell me that’d help me. I’m not trying to take nobody’s place or nothing like that. But I’m just saying, as a woman—as a young Black woman—if she knows some of the answers, Give ’em to me!” (Laughing.) But she said that I could call her anytime. I just haven’t done it yet.”

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