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When I was a teenager all I wanted was to be the fifth member of Xscape. I used to watch the videos and sing the songs, “Just kick it”, “My Little Secret” to the top of my lungs. I am a true fan!

Recently Kandi Burruss was on Tigger’s afternoon show on V103 and mentioned that she would not be taking part in the So So Def Reunion. When Tigger asked why, she said that she and Xscape had unfinished business and she didn’t feel comfortable reuniting with them because it doesn’t take her to a happy place. ( (sad face)

So former group member Latocha Scott stopped by my show yesterday to promote the upcoming season of TV One’s “R&B Divas” which she will be on. I couldn’t resist asking her what the disharmony was all about? What unfinished business business was Kandi talking about?? You’ll be very surprised at what Latocha had to say. But all in all, it sounds like both the girls need to sit down and hash it out. Here’s a tidbit…

Egypt: So when you talk about relationships and personalities and clashing, are you & Tiny okay?
LaTocha: We’re cool, very cool.
Egypt: Is your sister and Tiny okay?
Latocha: Very cool.
Egypt: You and Kandi okay?
LaTocha: Not very cool.
Egypt: Your sister and Kandi?
Latocha: Not very cool.
Egypt: Tiny and Kandi?
Latocha: Cool.

Pop the hood for the full interview…

Egypt: LaTocha Scott is in the building. So I’m so excited to talk to you. You’ve got a lot of great things going on. First and foremost I just found out you have been married for 17 years to your husband-ager. Your husband and manager.

LaTocha: Cute, real cute. {laughs}

Egypt: But 17 years, especially today. How? We’re like the same age.

LaTocha: Okay.

Egypt: So that means when you were in Xscape you were married.

LaTocha: Yeah we were. Nobody knew.

Egypt: How’d you keep that on the low?

LaTocha: We kept it on the low. It was all about business, all about work. You couldn’t put the two together so we kept it down.

Egypt: Ya’ll are so cute. You’re even starting to look alike.

LaTocha: Oh my gosh. People do say that. They’re like you look like brother and sister and I’m like why cause we’re chocolate?

Egypt: No, they are too cute. So okay, “R&B Diva’s” just announced that you’ve joined the cast. Give us the whole scoop. Who else is on the cast, how did this come about? Who else is going to be on the show this season?

LaTocha: Oooh, everybody’s coming back. Everybody that was on the last season.

Egypt: Nicci Gilbert…

LaTocha: Nikki, Syleena, Keke Wyatt, Faith and Angie Stone is new. And Monifah. Monifah’s there too.

Egypt: Did you say you know what, I want to be on that show, or did they call you and say it would be great if you could join us?

LaTocha: I was just really on my grind last year. I was doing performances and then they called my management, like, we really want to put her on the show. It’s all about the music so can we get LaTocha on the show? At first I was apprehensive but then I thought about the fact that people- I’ve been gone for a long time- and people have been like what’s going on with you and it’s the perfect platform for me to come back, and it’s all about the music.

Egypt: Not with reality shows, it ain’t all about the music!

LaTocha: This one is. This one is.

Egypt: So, what are we going to learn about LaTocha that we may not know?

LaTocha: Ya’ll gotta watch and see.

Egypt: No, that’s why I’ve got you up here! {laughs}

LaTocha: Well, you’re going to learn that I’m a mother. I do the same things that everybody else does. I’m on my grind in the studio all the time and just my relationship with Rocky. Rock on the block. How we do things as far as him managing me. It’s just a lot. It’s me doing me.

Egypt: Hey Rocky, come on up here to the microphone.

LaTocha: Oh my gosh.

Egypt: I had to do it. You said you’ve been married for 17 years. Valentine’s Day is just two days away.

LaTocha: Which is his birthday.

Egypt: Is it? So you’ve gotta make it extra special. What are ya’ll gonna do?

LaTocha: I can’t say right now but it’s going to be some things poppin. It’s a big surprise, it’s a big surprise.

Egypt: She’s going to surprise you???

Rocky: Yeah right, she’s going to surprise me.

Egypt: Alright, so let’s talk about Valentine’s Day priors. Latocha Scott and her husband are up here. What is the best Valentine’s Day that you guys have had together? Give us some ideas. We gotta steal your swagger.

Latocha: What about the Vegas trip?

Rocky: Well, let me see. I think one day…Jamon our son was probably like…he may have been one and so I made Tocha feel like you know listen, I have this big meeting, and I need you to come with me. We’re going to go out to eat. I don’t know what she was doing…she had just come from the beauty salon or something so the car came and picked us up at the house, and I’m like we gotta go, we’ve got a dinner meeting. So on the way to the dinner meeting I said I gotta stop by the airport. At this time you could go through the airport without everybody getting searched. So I was like I gotta stop by the airport. I’ve got a client of mine flying in and he has to hand me something.

Egypt: Which you don’t.

Rocky: So she’s like I gotta go through the airport? So she’s going through the airport, people are taking pictures. You know this was Xscape at their height and then I’m like let’s sit right her eand wait on his plane to arrive. Next thing you know our son goes running across the floor.

LaTocha: I’m like is that my son?!?

Rocky: She’s like that looks like my son and he goes flying through the airport. Next thing you know her mom, her sisters, all her friends come out & we all get on a plane and go to Vegas. She’s like I don’t have any clothes.

Latocha: He packed everything.

Egypt: You did that.

Rocky: She was like I have no underwear, I have no soap!

LaTocha: {cracks up}

Rocky: When she gets to Vegas, to the suite, it had everything you could think of.

LaTocha: Everything was there.

Egypt: Okay so you get points! Unfortunately not everybody can afford to fly in the whole family. Hey, So So Def reunion coming up. We gotta talk about that and you know Kandi Burruss was up here and said some things about Xscape that we want to talk to you about. Let’s take a break.

Egypt: We’re back with LaTocha Scott. We’re just catching up. You know she’s going to be on “R&B Diva’s” this upcoming season but you’ve got this new mixtape coming out as well right?

Latocha: Yes, Truth in the Booth.

Egypt: When is that dropping?

LaTocha: End of March.

Egypt: March 24th. So it’s after the So So Def Reunion, which is right now on the tip of everybody’s tongue. Pretty big deal. Everyone who’s ever been a member of So So Def is going to be there, part of the reunion, but Kandi Burruss was on Tigger’s show just recently. I’m so glad I have you here so we can get your side of the story.

LaTocha: okay.

Egypt: She said she has no problem with Jermaine Dupri but she has opted not to participate in the So So Def Reunion. And let me just say this. She was very clean, not drama filled at all. Just speaking from a place in her heart where she felt that there was some unfinished business in Xscape that were not allowing for you guys to come together and do the reunion so she would not be a part of this. What is this unfinished business? I don’t know, I’m just a fan. I wanna see ya’ll together.

LaTocha: My thing is the only unfinished business I can think of is the fact that we didn’t go onto the other albums that we were supposed to do. Other than that, I don’t understand where the unfinished business comes in at. I don’t know what she’s talking about.

Egypt: You guys get along?

Latocha: We talk. I mean times you know…we kind of spread out. Everyone found out what life was like outside of the group so I don’t know. You know when she says unfamiliar business, I would have to talk to her.

Egypt: Would you like to do a reunion though?

LaTocha: Oh I would love to do a reunion with Xscape. Why not?

Egypt: Do you know how much money ya’ll would make are you kidding me??

Latocha: I mean it’s not even that. I mean that’s part of it but I think we owe it to the fans, to the people. They put us all here. You know we’re successful and people were calling us because of what the fans allowed us to do and that’s the scene. You know the universe opened up for us in ’93. We were able to sign to So So Def very early on. We worked hard and to be here now, it’s like 20 years later, who can even say that?

Egypt: So when you look back on Xscape, you guys were all young. You’ve got this money, you’ve got this fame, what stopped you from finishing the other albums? When you say the unfinished business, that’s what you’re referring to, but what even stopped that?

LaTocha: Well, you know, personalities clashed back in the day. We really didn’t have that person to say listen, you guys are sisters, ya’ll try to pull it together. Young, naïve, and everybody just felt like you know, we could do better on our own. Just didn’t want to be bother. You know what I’m saying? We had been traveling years and years. It was like a marriage. Everyday you see Xscape. You wake up Xscape. You go to sleep Xscape. So I just think everybody was at the point where it was time to move forward in our own direction.

Egypt: So when you talk about relationships and personalities and clashing, are you & Tiny okay?

LaTocha: We’re cool, very cool.

Egypt: Is your sister and tiny okay?

Latocha: Very cool.

Egypt: You and Kandi okay?

LaTocha: Not very cool.

Egypt: Your sister and Kandi?

Latocha: Not very cool.

Egypt: Tiny and Kandi?

Latocha: Cool.

Egypt: So really if we get you, your sister and Kandi in one room together, that’s where the disharmony is. If we can get ya’ll to work it out maybe …I mean in time for So So Def Reunion?

LaTocha: But this is the thing. I don’t know why people want to continue to hold on to the negative. I think we’ve all progressed in life, you know, everybody’s doing their thing. Big ups to Tiny and Kandi for standing in their lane with the television show. It’s great for them. And I just don’t understand why we have to keep going back to the negative. I want to move forward. I want to see 20 years, you know what I’m saying? This whole 20 year reunion is big for me, but to say you’re not going to do it because you feel like we have unfinished business is…I don’t want to say it’s insulting to the fans, but it’s like come on, it’s not even about that. Let’s get out of self and let’s think about what we did for music.

Egypt: I’m going to tell you one thing. All of you girls are so successful in your life right now you’ve got the tv show, Tiny, Kandi’s got her show, you’ve all got your albums and you’re working and Tiny has the OMG Girlz. If you could take that force that you all have in your lives individually and put it together and go on tour…

LaTocha: I think it’d be great.

Egypt: It would be…come on ya’ll, you’re all thinking the same thing. Think of all the hits they had. I just would love to see you guys as grown women sit together in one room and say that was then, this is now.

LaTocha: And I’m down for that. Like I said, I moved forward and everything and I think that it’s always the miscommunication and I think that Kandi and myself or my sister, we’ve never sat down and talked about everything.

Egypt: I’m going to work on that. If I can get Kandi to agree to come in, can we do this as sisters?

LaTocha: We can.

Egypt: And then can I be the fifth member?

{LAUGHTER}

LaTocha: We’ll see.

Egypt: LaTocha I love you so much.

LaTocha: Love you too Egypt.

Egypt: And Kandi knows I love her so much too, you guys are great.

LaTocha: People that want to talk to me, I’m on Twitter all the time, although my Twitter got hacked. I’m @IamLaTocha. Ya’ll hit me up and we can talk about it. I like to talk on Twitter.

Egypt: Hugs and hugs. Love is love. Alright , LaTocha Scott, check her out- “R&B Divas!!!”