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]
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.
she looks niceeeeeeee
but its a pity i dnt like her music
I say got dayum.
The art work is dopeeeee son!! love it, the colours. MbS
…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
KERI IS SUCHA BOSS
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.
ZEXY!!!i love it!!!get em misskeri!!
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.
missKeri BABY !!!!
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…..
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.
#1 please…… Keri do your thang ! ! pics are cute!
smart girl.
.. Cudi looks VERY sexy in his pics too!
Post them too Angel.
and the yellow polish is on POINT ! ! ! !!
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 .
oh yeah her make -up was fresh looking !!
$25,000…sheeeshh…I need to learn how to write songs lol…
My husband would be salivating all over the keyboard right now.
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.
17
What the hell you talkin about, how many chicks around your way look like her.” her thighs look thick, yucky”, lol sit down.
LMAO @ her first check and her family’s reaction.
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.
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
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!!!!
Man Keri is amazing! Her music, uh not so much lol
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.
24
That’s not the point, your hating, that’s what it was.
Love the Ladies Album… and she is a sexy lady. Not feeling nothing but love for that woman.
Thought she was more classy than that.. well whatever goes I guess
cosign #28! Songwriting doesnt sound so bad lol.
Her body is on point!
She looks AMAZING, but isn’t this like her 12th time in Complex? lmao.
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…
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!
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!
what about Kid Cudi’s cover
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
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!
Nice I must say.
Ms Keri Baby looks peng (dat means good)
i love these pics
as usual, some ppl must hav sumfing negative 2 say kmt
these remind me of the photoshoot kid cudi did….with the animations
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.
this girl continues to underwhelm me, can’t sing, writing is mediocre, can’t dance, and she’s basically just a cute face….next….
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!
Sorry but i’m not liking all the nakedness. Why is everybody jocking the Beyonce leotard look damn. Are there any original artist left.
mane she is fine as hell lol women on here stop hatin if yall looked that good maybe somebody would wanna smash too lol
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?!?!
Amber sounds like a white girl with a flat ass whose man probably isn’t satisfied!
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
go HEAD keri!!!!
love the cover!!!!
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
Keri seems like the kinda chick who won’t take no shhhh from no man.
@ 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
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.
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!
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!
@ 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
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!!!
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