Thereal-life dramabetween ’90s R&B groupXscapeis still going strong all these years later — but this time, the cameras are capturing it all.
At the premiere of the group’s new Bravo showSWV & XSCAPE: The Queens of R&B, many of the ladies admitted they were hesitant to do the show because they couldn’t put their ongoing issues aside.
“I think everyone had reservations in the beginning, but we’re all here,” said LaTocha Scott, 49.
Xscape circa 1993.Raymond Boyd/Getty
LaTocha’s younger sister, Tamika Scott, 47, rounds out the chart-topping quartet.
In the show’s premiere, LaTocha and Tamika get into a heated argument with their mother, Gloria MacFarlin, in the room. During the disagreement, Tamika questions why LaTocha, whom she refers to as acting like “Beyoncé,” left a dressing room after a performance.
“She’s jealous,” Gloria mouths to LaTocha, who then brings up the fact that she feels her sister body shamed her as Gloria attempts to help the situation.
Tamika then says she feels like “it’s always two against one” in their family’s dynamic as Tamika goes on to blame LaTocha and her husband, Rocky Bivens, for mishandling her funds from the group years ago.
Xscape in 2022.Prince Williams/Wireimage
“Just dealing with that because that’s the matriarch of our family, anytime that happens, it bothers me — being the oldest, you never want to feel like mom’s being disrespected and I felt that way,” LaTocha said before her sister chimed in.
“Not disrespected,” Tamika replied, defending herself. “I did not disrespect her. That’s not true. You know I ain’t disrespect my mom. That’s not going to happen.”
“It was disrespectful,” LaTocha said as Tamika left the carpet.
Though Tamika returned about five minutes later, the band’s real-life issues haven’t gotten much better since 1998, when LaTocha pursued a solo career because her husband had beef with a tour promoter the band wanted to hire. (LaTocha will release a solo album,The Invitation: A Conversation with God, this spring.)
“It’s still being dealt with,” Kandi said of the real life problems within the group. “That’s the easier way to put it. There’s a lot of things that were happening during the show that we’re still dealing with now as a group. Obviously it’s going to be tough for us to watch things back and that’s the way it is with any reality show when you have arguments at the time and then you have to go through it again when you watch it. Because it’s like, if we didn’t deal with it really then, now we have to deal with it again once the world is seeing it and then we got the world chiming in, which is going to make it a little bit tougher.”
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Although female trio SWV has also had their fair share of problems, they’ve been able to put their differences aside a little easier, a quality Xscape admires.
“I think they communicate more and better than we do,” Tiny told PEOPLE. “I have to give them their props for that. At the end of the day, once we learn how to do that, I think everything will be cool.”
“It’s always been harder for us,” added Kandi. “I don’t know why. I feel like they’ve figured it out for themselves, but for us, we have a lot of things that we just never really worked through. Doing this show brought out a lot of those things, whereas normally we could just go do our performance and sweep it all under the rug. We weren’t able to do that during the course of filming the show.”
SWV & XSCAPE: The Queens of R&Bpremieres on Bravo on Sunday, March 5 at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT.
source: people.com
