Raz B has responded to Omarion‘s current remarks about his former group members in B2K being his backup dancers.
In an interview with VladTV revealed on Sunday (January 15), the founding member of the R&B boyband broke down a number of bombshells together with how Omarion’s Verzuz in opposition to Mario was initially deliberate as a battle between B2K and Fairly Ricky, along with the “Icebox,” singer’s damaging “backup dancers,” feedback.
Whereas within the technique of dissecting photographs the pair of R&B vets traded on social media earlier than and after their face-off, Raz B defined why he felt Mario received the Verzuz battle and likewise revealed B2K initially began out with Omarion rapping earlier than the group “compelled” him into singing.
Watch the complete practically eight-minute clip beneath:
Raz B beforehand put Omarion on blast in July final 12 months after he shared an e-mail from the B2K’s lawyer Allen Jacobi that allegedly revealed Omarion was not part of the group.
O appeared to clap again at Raz B and his bandmates’ claims of getting washed in his Verzuz in opposition to Mario with an IG put up of his personal calling them nothing greater than “backup dancers.”
The dialog in regards to the aforementioned sneak diss begins off with Raz B explaining Omarion’s background as an artist earlier than the group popped off.
“Omari [Omarion] is simply not a vocalist like that,” Raz B mentioned partly. “Omari began the group and he was a rapper, proper. We compelled him, pushed him into singing. And he’s developed his singing voice through the years and I feel he’s executed phenomenal. However folks like tones and textures … you need one thing that’s actually clean on the ears. Omari just isn’t a vocalist he’s a performer simply that straightforward.”
Raz B continued, explaining his ideas on how Omarion has been “clowned,” by the tradition the previous few years whereas additionally concentrating on his assertion about B2K and his former group members being his “backup dancers.”
“I assumed that was actually, actually humorous,” he mentioned. “That was a dialog me and the blokes had about that too. After which you realize, Boog [J-Boog] wrote a really prolonged message to [Omarion] and Boog did his analysis and his homework and Boog received a number of that information. As a result of a number of that information that we have to learn about Omari or what we knew about him then, we will get that info and he put all of it compact.”
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As he went on, Raz B detailed how every member of B2K introduced one thing completely different to the desk, whereas additionally emphasizing that the group’s objective wasn’t ever to be essentially the most vocally excellent.
“They didn’t discuss to me that day, they was going to place my identify in it too, however I stood by the message as a result of that was the reality,” Raz B mentioned. “What J-Boog mentioned was the reality, you realize what I’m saying? Marcus Houston sung a number of backgrounds. Dave McPherson, at the moment would put … they might put sure leads in sure components. So Omarion was not a vocalist. B2K was not a vocal group. It’s what it’s.”
Raz B remarked on how B2K, as a complete, have been backup dancers of their very own as a result of they didn’t sing over their tracks throughout reside performances like different 2000s boy bands, such because the Backstreet Boys.
“However because you’re already tearing down the model much more then simply hold doing what you’re doing, bro,” he mentioned. “It’s like we received to say one thing. Ain’t no person no backup — I imply all of us the background dancers, you realize what I’m saying? As a result of B2K just isn’t singing. We’d sing over our tracks however we aren’t on the market singing reside and dancing. We’re not. I’ve seen among the biggest teams do it, NYSNC, the Backstreet Boys. B2K wasn’t placing in that work.”
In direction of the top of his feedback, Raz B defined the distinction between the unique vocals recorded for B2K’s tracks and the variations Omarion re-recorded himself.
Whereas clearing up the discrepancy, he additionally gave his opinion on why “conceitedness,” performed a job in Omarion’s Verzuz defeat.
“Simply hold it a buck, in case you don’t hold it a buck… or you could possibly have simply left it proper there in La La land and that’s what being conceited received [Omarion] received Mario to name him out,” Raz B mentioned.
“However I do know what Omari was saying. He’s like, ‘These are my vocals.’ In different phrases, he’s saying I went again within the studio now and I re-recorded all these vocals. However all people was speaking in regards to the vocals that’s on the monitor. Don’t assault someone and count on to not get attacked.”
