Britney Spears Recalls Justin Timberlake Using Blaccent During Ginuwine Interaction

Mya Abraham
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Britney Spears’ memoir, The Woman In Me, is causing quite the stir with the amount of revelations stemming from it, including tea on all her exes, but one particular interaction between Justin Timberlake and Ginuwine has Black Twitter in a frenzy.

In the now-viral snippet from the audiobook narrated by actress Michelle Williams, the unique exchange between JT and Ginuwine remains burned in Spears’ brain. “One day, [Justin] and I were in New York, going to parts of town I’d never been to before. Walking our way was a guy with a huge blinged-out medallion. He was flanked by two giant security guards. [Justin] got all excited and said so loud, ‘Oh yeahhhh. Fo’ shizz. Fo’ shizz. Ginuwineeee, what’s up homie?’”

She continued, “After Ginuwine walked away, Felicia [Culotta] did an impression of [Justin], ‘Oh yeahhhh. Fo’ shizz. Fo’ shizz. Ginuwineeee…’ [Justin] wasn’t even embarrassed. He just took it and looked at her like, ‘Okay, f**k you.'”

The reflection comes from the era when *NSYNC was mesmerized by Black artists, but according to Spears, the group “tried too hard to fit in.”

Williams narrated, “[Justin’s] band *NSYNC was what people back then called ‘so pimp.’ They were white boys, but they loved Hip-Hop. To me, that’s what separated them from the Backstreet Boys, who seemed very consciously to position themselves as a white group. *NSYNC hung out with Black artists.”

Of the JT-Ginuwine moment, writer Bri Malandro tweeted a photo of the men, captioned, “He absolutely did that s**t.” One person tweeted, “I gagged when it was revealed who Justin Timberlake was throwing on a blaccent for.” Another added, “(white) Michelle Williams doing an impression of Britney doing an impression of Justin Timberlake doing an impression of a Black person – this is art.”

Meanwhile, someone else unearthed footage from a Chris Rock monologue discussing Timberlake’s blaccent.

The Woman In Me is now available for purchase via britneybook.com.

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