Why Queen Latifah Joined "Star"

Queen Latifah is each astir that U.N.I.T.Y.

At the 2023 Grammys connected Feb. 5, the seven-time nominee shared a fewer heartfelt words for younger artists successful the euphony industry, particularly erstwhile it comes to younger women being pitted against each different arsenic their respective careers proceed to grow. (See each prima deed the reddish carpet here).

"Well, I would accidental to you, present is the clip for you to bash immoderate the f you privation with your vocation due to the fact that we had that done to us," she exclusively told Live From E! big Laverne Cox. "A batch of crews benignant of claimed, like, the 1 pistillate successful the radical and wouldn't benignant of fto america each enactment with each different sometimes."

But arsenic the histrion noted, they took matters successful their ain hands.

"Then the astute ones, of course, we got to leap connected each other's records and marque smash deed euphony and elevate the full genre," she continued. "So, if you person the powerfulness oregon if you privation to enactment with idiosyncratic spell enactment with them. It's each ego…and astir of the clip it's not our ego it's idiosyncratic else's ego competing against idiosyncratic else's and we're conscionable the pawns."