The singer said she’s been able to have the community and fanbase that she’s always wanted — one that feels safe and finally accepts her for who she is.
Four years later, in 2015, my former colleague Reggie UgwuBlack now says it’s “crazy” for her to reflect on the interview with Ugwu, because at the time she was not doing well. Despite smiles she flashed for photos and expressing optimism about her future in the interview, Black said she spent a lot of time feeling a lot of “nothing.”
At the time, she and her family had just fought a legal battle with ARK and its cofounder Patrice Wilson over the rights to “Friday,” and a separate management deal for a real shot at a music career had gone awry. Black and her family were left winded. Black was in therapy, but she seldom felt assured. She wanted to retreat from both the online and physical world and give up on herself.
“And not just with ‘Friday’ — but my entire life,” she said. “With time I began to experience a version of myself I never knew existed.”“It was something I found on my own without anyone telling me what I should be,” she said. “That for me was something I could identify and go, ‘Yup, that is me and that came from me and not anybody else.’ That was a huge moment.”
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