Earlier this week, fans got quite the shock when news spread that Lil Mo had dissed Prince over an incident backstage at the Essence Music Festival. Even more shocking was the news that Prince had fired back at Mo over her diss. Now, Mo is finally opening up about the beef and sharing her side of the story.
The drama all began this past weekend when Mo claimed in an Instagram post that she and her boyfriend, Dynamite, weren’t allowed to walk freely backstage because Prince was walking through. Mo later posted an insulting picture, which many assumed was about Prince’s performance.
But much to everyone’s surprise, Prince seemed to fire back at Mo with an insulting tweet of his own.
Recently, Mo spoke with TheJasmineBrand.com about the incident and shared her side of the story.
“I was backstage. The security at the top of the walkway told us to walk through the back. Dynamite and I were walking and got held back by police and other security. My fiancé and I were like, ‘What’s going on we have all-access passes? They told us to go this way.’ The cop said, ‘You gotta stay here for like two minutes.’ I said, ‘I have to go to the restroom, and if I pee on myself it’s gonna be some mess.’ They blocked us from walking by because Prince was walking through. I was like, ‘Seriously!! are you kidding me. I’m not gonna even bother him.’ I wont EEM [even] look at him — because I heard he doesn’t like people to look at him. Had that been his personal concert I would’ve been like OK — I feel you. But this is Essence. You have to be credentialed and invited or you [sic] not getting in. I think it was messed up. I don’t know who is to blame. I’m an artist too. Shade is, he wasn’t the ONLY artist that did that this weekend. It was too much for my mind to wrap around that people do that coming through clearing the way, like they Obama. C’mon. We are co-workers LOL,” she explained.
Mo went on to deny that her shady Instagram posts were about Prince.
“I didn’t say NO names and I didn’t see none of his performance. He was NOT the only one that performed! I was talking about JJ Fish ahahahahaa. I just know the art of manipulation and people fall for it. OMG all they have to do is read a few books that shows you how to make people THINK you talking about 1 thing. Lord — let me turn my greens OFF,” said Mo.
She also reveals what she thought about Prince after seeing his alleged diss toward her.
“Dynamite and I were on the plane. We landed and got a call. I HOLLERED ‘cuz they said Prince said my clothes didn’t match. I was like, ‘OH snap. Purple One got jokes.’ That let’s me know he’s human. I have NO problem with him. The security gave a teez to ALOT of people. That was mean and low to treat people that way, but to each his own. Still i RISE,” she said.
Well, we’re interested to see what Prince has to say about the matter but considering how elusive Prince is, we doubt he’ll ever open up about any beef he might have. –nicholas robinson
