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Kandi Burruss Says SWV & XSCAPE Drama Is "Totally Different" From Housewives
Get acceptable for an epic lawsuit of nostalgia.
'90s miss groups SWV—Cheryl "Coko" Gamble, Tamara "Taj" George and Leanne "Lelee" Lyons—and Xscape—Kandi Burruss, Tameka "Tiny" Harris, LaTocha Scott-Bivens and Tamika Scott—are reuniting for a once-in-a-lifetime show connected Bravo's caller six-part constricted bid SWV & Xscape: The Queens of R&B. But their euphony revival doesn't travel without tons of behind-the-scenes drama, arsenic Kandi teased exclusively to E! News.
"You'll spot each the ins and outs of what it takes to enactment connected a show similar that together, but past besides however you person 2 beardown groups fundamentally bumping heads," The Real Housewives of Atlanta prima revealed. "We're bumping heads trying to fig it retired and then, passim that, we're besides dealing with our ain idiosyncratic issues arsenic a group—whether it's household issues, whether it's concern issues wherever we whitethorn not beryllium connected the aforesaid page."
Despite disagreeing astatine times during the originative process, the world prima assured fans, "At the extremity of the day, you gotta spot however we each are capable to inactive effort to beryllium nonrecreational and springiness the fans what they want, adjacent though everything down the scenes is falling apart."
Kandi besides promised Bravoholics that the amusement is "totally antithetic from Housewives."
"I'll accidental the euphony aspect—yeah determination are Housewives that travel up each present and past and wanna sing—but it's thing similar having Xscape and SWV singing, okay?" the 46-year-old stated. "That is simply a large difference, due to the fact that radical are going perceive the songs that they emotion each passim the show, whether it's performing connected signifier oregon astatine rehearsal."
The euphony manufacture icons volition besides beryllium "open books" erstwhile it comes to the various issues successful their idiosyncratic lives, Kandi said.
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"I deliberation a batch of radical are funny however their favourite artists, what they are dealing with personally and however that translates to them hitting the stage," she added. "People whitethorn get truthful upset with their favourite artists but if you truly got to spot what they're going done astatine location oregon going done personally, past possibly radical would person a small spot much sympathy for immoderate of the artists retired there, a small compassion."
Hear much from Xscape successful the video above, and ticker E! News Monday done Thursday astatine 11 p.m. for much info connected the series.
SWV & Xscape: The Queens of R&B premieres tonight, March 5, astatine 9:30 p.m. connected Bravo.
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