MAG COVERS: KERI HILSON COVERS COMPLEX MAGAZINE
Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Singer/songwriter Keri Hilson covers the latest issue of Complex Magazine and speaks on the album, working behind the scenes, growing up well off and more. Peep some snippets:
On her debut album and its sales:
Keri: It’s doing very well. Especially given this industry—even though the business is hurting, the album is still achieving its projections. I’m proud of the album, but you can never expect how the world will receive you or your music.On her first check for song-writing:
Keri: My very first check was for Ruben Studdard’s first album, like $25,000. And my family was like, “What the hell is this? This is what you’ve been doing? Who the hell brings home a check like this?” They’re thinking $2,500 here and there, whatever. It was crazy.On Rihanna’s and Cassie’s leaked photos:
Keri: My first reaction was “Thank God I never did that.” I never let anybody take any naked pictures of me, so there would be none. I was always one of those over-paranoid people, convinced that someday that I would be living the dream, so as early as middle or high school I wouldn’t do certain things, just in case. [READ MORE]









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1.
johnosahon
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
keri these pictures don’t look good for you, unless this is the image you want to portray.
they have passed the “sexy” line and have gone into you know what.
2.
Black London Gal
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
she looks niceeeeeeee
but its a pity i dnt like her music
3.
HEATHCLIFF
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
I say got dayum.
4.
Vbellz
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
The art work is dopeeeee son!! love it, the colours. MbS
5.
qdeon
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
…oh please #1 JOHNOSAHON
…these pics are VERY tasteful; no crotch or crack exposed & very age appropriate…
…i can still recall britney spears & foxy brown in suggestive 2-pieces on the cover of
…magazines before they were even old enough to vote
…i don’t really care for keri’s music but, she seems to b doin VERY well in this
…industry
6.
killalipstick
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
KERI IS SUCHA BOSS
7.
CREAMY
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
I LOVE IT TOO… DESPITE WHAT FOLKS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT HER, I THINK SHE IS DOING IT! WITH THE RIGHT MAKE-UP SHE DOESN’T LOOK AGED OR WASHED UP IN THE LEAST BIT LIKE SOME PEOPLE MAKE HER OUT TO BE.
8.
parisian girl
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
ZEXY!!!i love it!!!get em misskeri!!
9.
KhiaPhierce
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
DAMN .. keri was never really attractive to me before.
I always thought she was just CUTE.
she looks so sexy in these pics
.. & i’m a straight female .
I’d hit that.
10.
missdior-cynthia
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
missKeri BABY !!!!
11.
eveinthegarden
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
This is pretty sad…the level that women have slunk to in order to sell records. You want to be admired for your singing and the agent says fine…put on this leotard and grease up babeeeee…..
12.
TJACK25
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
DANG IT KERI!
I thought Keri was gonna prove everybody wrong by climbing to the top WITHOUT having to ever do this type of photoshoot!!….. Oh well, guess she proved me wrong and jumped on the sex sells bandwagon.
13.
So Angel...you cant talk about
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
#1 please…… Keri do your thang ! ! pics are cute!
14.
mack
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
smart girl.
15.
KhiaPhierce
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
.. Cudi looks VERY sexy in his pics too!
Post them too Angel.
16.
So Angel...you cant talk about
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
and the yellow polish is on POINT ! ! ! !!
17.
Amber
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
she is pretty to me but kind of average pretty. nonetheless still flawless….i wish she posed differently in the second pic it makes her thighs look thick yuck .
18.
South Crack
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
oh yeah her make -up was fresh looking !!
19.
Sha
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
$25,000…sheeeshh…I need to learn how to write songs lol…
20.
oooh nasty
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
My husband would be salivating all over the keyboard right now.
21.
johnosahon
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
12) TJACK25
LOL, i second you.
was it not her that was saying the opposite of what she is doing now?
all i am saying is that it is a little bit too racy, but if that’s what she was going for then good luck to her.
22.
HEATHCLIFF
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
17
What the hell you talkin about, how many chicks around your way look like her.” her thighs look thick, yucky”, lol sit down.
23.
Kathy
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
LMAO @ her first check and her family’s reaction.
24.
Amber
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
22 everyone has their own perception of what looks good. you like thick thighs hey that’s you im me get over it. the end.
25.
AshleyNikole
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
I like Keri but I’m tired of that wig! lol
Didn’t care for her cd but she can write her
ass off & I can respect her hustle
26.
Divalicious
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
I agree with #7.
Why do we as ladies have to expose soooo much? She looks to me likw trash and I never saw her in that light before…Just looks like another …….
SAD!!!!
27.
mzrepresented
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
Man Keri is amazing! Her music, uh not so much lol
28.
KIDDO
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
OK, back to the $25,000, I would rather write songs before I would want to be an artist, being in the spot light don’t mean shit these days, when all the people in the back ground is getting the fat checks!
Damn just imagine what Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis checks look like for writing all those songs for Janet.
Hell with all the wack ass songs these artist are singing now a days, I know I’m about to get into the writing business. lol.
29.
HEATHCLIFF
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
24
That’s not the point, your hating, that’s what it was.
30.
The Aerospace Guy
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
Love the Ladies Album… and she is a sexy lady. Not feeling nothing but love for that woman.
31.
MELY
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
Thought she was more classy than that.. well whatever goes I guess
32.
Mother Jefferson
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
cosign #28! Songwriting doesnt sound so bad lol.
Her body is on point!
33.
Cory
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
She looks AMAZING, but isn’t this like her 12th time in Complex? lmao.
34.
Robert
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
The body is sexy as hell… but the face still ugly as hell…. She doesn’t have the Full Package. She can’t sing… she can’t perform and she’s ugly with a sexy body…
35.
Candi_Renee
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
FEMALES ALWAYS HATING ON SOMETHING THEY DONT UNDERSTAND. IM NOT A KERI FAN BUT SHE IS WORKINGTHESE PHOTOS! DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT! I WOULD LOVE TO TAKE SOME SEXY, EROTIC PICS LIKE THIS, YEP!
36.
Truthfully Cute 09
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
She said would never take any nude pics but these are close to it, but oh well I guess sex sells in this industry. Though my girl Alicia Keys never stooped that low thank God!
37.
sonny
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
what about Kid Cudi’s cover
38.
Supreme
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
o0oh Kid Cudi has pics too??? yes please post them!!! Keri looks great I love her album although i havent bought it i listen to it on imeem all the time… she should make a video for Slow Dance! She looks much better with this type of makeup
39.
Supreme
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
ugh whats wrong with showing some skin and being comfortable in our body! so what she looks great! we were born naked so whats the big deal! keri looks great and these photos are very tasteful great artwork too!
40.
LULU
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
Nice I must say.
41.
shanelle
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
Ms Keri Baby looks peng (dat means good)
i love these pics
as usual, some ppl must hav sumfing negative 2 say kmt
42.
juke
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
these remind me of the photoshoot kid cudi did….with the animations
43.
Young Jroe
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
Nice! She has a lot of haters…but that means she doing something right.
(Sidebar: Not comparing the two at all but Beyonce went through a COUPLE of hate months/years…from same people that worships the ground she walks on now. That’s the fickle azz public for you.)
@ #17…she’s actually more than average kinda pretty in person and stripped completely down.
44.
grant
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
this girl continues to underwhelm me, can’t sing, writing is mediocre, can’t dance, and she’s basically just a cute face….next….
45.
Babycakes
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
LOL @ #17 (Amber) She’s average pretty? oooook, if u say so. Where do YOU live?And what’s wrong with her “thick” thighs? she’s fit!
46.
TAM
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
Sorry but i’m not liking all the nakedness. Why is everybody jocking the Beyonce leotard look damn. Are there any original artist left.
47.
Q.B.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
mane she is fine as hell lol women on here stop hatin if yall looked that good maybe somebody would wanna smash too lol
48.
chris
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
wowwwwwww
im happy im not part of the female hatin crew, keri looks very nice, her body is hot, shes good looking, talented and these pics are tasteful
STOP HATIN!
if ur not a fan ok but to say she is “ugly” wtf?!?!
49.
Hmmmm....
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
Amber sounds like a white girl with a flat ass whose man probably isn’t satisfied!
50.
TWEETBABES
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
Keri is my inspiration. I don’t care for the shoot….but 25,000 dollar check??? Bitch, please believe I’m going to start writing for people lol
51.
09CHICK
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
go HEAD keri!!!!
love the cover!!!!
52.
SO
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
she did not write like a boy. complex should have asked instead of making that editorial first of all.
CONGRATS TO BEYONCE FOR 9 AND CIARA FOR 1 VMA NOD. THE ONLY RNB CHICKS TO GET NOMINATED
53.
Island Beat!
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
Keri seems like the kinda chick who won’t take no shhhh from no man.
54.
chris
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
@ 36
stooped this low? these are not nasty naked pics, shes probably showin as much skin as any girl on the beach!
and i love alicia keys and think she is attractive but she has once said to be very insecure about her huge calves (probably her canckles to) her skin and everything else so MAYBE thats why she has never showed skin like that so for the ones who are confident enough let them be if its done tastefully, she is a beautiful young woman who is COnfident- there is nothing wrong with that… i know if i had her body i would do the same lol
55.
peacekeeper
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
These pictures remind me of Ciara’s photos for Fantasy Ride.
Keri’s thighs are thick in these pictures? Wow…whoever said that must be on some…something.
Keri said her album is doing very well? lol..okay.
56.
Mizz Keri Baby!!
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
Haters (#1, 17, 34, 44) FALL BACK!! Keri looks great in these photos! There tastefull done, it’s not like she’s on a bed with her legs wide open!
I co-sign with No. 28, let me get to writing songs right ASAP! With all the ish they pass for music these days, it can’t be too hard! (Not to say that Keri writes ish, she’s actually really good!) A $25,000 check ain’t no joke!! Hell that’s when she just started off, she probably making tripple that now! I’d stay behind the scenes and just let the checks roll in! You can live like and mingle with the stars, but still maintain your privacy! That’s the good life! Get it Ms. Keri! Let the haters hate! The more haters you got the more successful you are!
57.
Mizz Keri Baby!!
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
Hey, did any one notice that when they asked Keri about Rihanna & Cassie’s nude pics, instead of saying “Oh, I feel bad for them. That was real unfortunate for them…”, she’s like “Yeah, I’m glad I didn’t do that shit! I ain’t that stupid!” LMAO! I know that’s right Keri. Tell them dudes you can see my ass naked when you with me! No pics for you!! LOL!
58.
jlinz
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
@ 36 u stupid as hell!!!!! nothing wrong wit showing skin in the industry today itz everywhere rihanna, beyonce show lots of skin… yall sound dumb as hell!!!!
u chicks are haters!!! u know keri look fly get over it
59.
backingbarack
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
she looks better with minimal makeup but being that i work in the industry the makeup is probably caked on but the lighting and retouching didnt pick it up. she should never wear blush and that heavy black eyeliner. whoever her makeup artist is needs to keep the makeup looking clean and minimal.
her body is smoking tho!!!
60.
word
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
knowing my fellow black people, im sure yaw didnt read her interview lol
so here’s one of the best statements she made………
” Yeah! I don’t want to be oversexed! I don’t want to sell sex, I want to sell music. I want to inspire others, I don’t want to be one of those people who’s always throwing their body at the masses. What good does that do? Besides sell records. Men don’t buy records, anyway. These pictures are Photoshopped, they’re airbrushed. If anything, it’s just the opposite for me, where women are my fans. ”
i respect Keri even MORE for that statement. she’s mos def a focused lady and i hope she goes far in her career. and her comment just answered what some retarded haters have been saying
this is not the real Keri, she’s not trynna sell sex or anything. damn, if you probably read the interview, you’ll have known
besides she looks stunning and her body’s sexy as hell lol
61.
KERI IS A HYPOCRITE
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
This heffa claims she doesn’t want to be known for her looks but she’s all assed out and oiled up on the cover.
Then she claims she doesn’t go out but on her twitter she’s always at after parties getting drunk. She’s a heavy drinker.
How can she compare herself to artists like Rihanna and Cassie who are half her age?
KERI IS PUSHING 30! She should be at Beyonce’s level.
She’s been in the game since 1995!
STOP LYING KERI!!
62.
reesepiece
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
Keri Hilson’s hair does nothing for her beauty!! She looks old!
63.
jlinz
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
@ 60 Pushh but you on her twitter tho
LMAO!!!!
64.
jlinz
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
my bad @ 61Pushh but you on her twitter tho
LMAO!!!!
65.
politicallyincorrect
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
Kerry looks good for 35
66.
KERI IS A HYPOCRITE
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
@60
She is a liar. Her tits are the first thing you see on the Complex cover. She sells sex.
She shouldn’t put down other artists to make herself look better.
67.
KhiaPhierce
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
To people that say she looks thick ..
.. how sad that our world is coming to an end.
Because this bitch is extra slim
& I don’t think anyone in their right mind would say “yuck” when they look at her thighs.
This is what some females want to look like.
Her body is ON!
Go Keri!
68.
MiSSSEXY
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
LOOKS TRSHY TO ME
69.
peacekeeper
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
Keri is such a hypocrite. She tries to paint herself as so real and better than the next artist but she isn’t doing anything different than the rest.
70.
KERI IS A HYPOCRITE
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
@JLINZ
No! I used to be a fan until I started noticing she’s always complaing,hating on someone, pretending to be better than other artists but doing the same thing. She got unfollowed months ago after I got tired of her drunk at the after party twitters.
I’m glad I never bought her album.
71.
JACKTHERIPPER
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
OMY GOODNESSS. KERI HILSON IS SEXXYyy! her body is a 10 and her face is a 10!!!
72.
Tessa
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
this post will get over 100 plus cuz soo much hate seeing that the majority of the readers on here are sisters they are the biggest haters In the world SMH SAD …
keri looks FRIECE!!!!!!!!!
73.
peacekeeper
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
@66
Yes! That’s exactly what I’m talking about. Her attitude sucks! She is knocking others throughout the whole interview…and I’m like, “you are doing the same thing”. But when you do it, it’s okay? Whatever. She is a fake.
74.
ANN
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
HELLO rihanna n cassie were nude!!! these pics of keri is what u see at the dam beach !!! fall back
75.
kadian
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 /
she looks good
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