Britney Spears is revealing all the details about her past relationship with Justin Timberlake in the early 2000's in her memoir “A Woman in Me.” One incident in particilar the pop star is shedding light upon is the use of Timberlake's “blaccent.” A “blaccent” is when a non-Black person uses African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) in order to mock how a Black person's dialect.
One of the viral moments from the memoir was when Spears recalled their trip to New York when they met R&B singer Ginuwine. Timberlake apparently had a blaccent when meeting the singer which Spears said embarrased her.
“[Justin's] band *NSYNC was what people back then called ‘so pimp.' They were white boys, but they loved hip-hop,” William narrated in the viral clip. “To me, that's what separated them from the Backstreet Boys, who seemed very conscious to position themselves as a white group.”
Spears then says she and Timberlake ran into “a guy with a huge, blinged-out medallion” (aka Ginuwine). “J got all excited and said, so loud, ‘Oh yeah, fo shiz, fo shiz! Ginuwiiiiiine! What’s up, homie?’”
Spears’s longtime friend and assistant, Felicia Culotta, made fun of him but “J wasn’t even embarrassed. He just took it and looked at her like, Okay, f*** you, Fe.”
While this was a less serious incident, Spears also detailed some harrowing experience about having to have an abortion.
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“It was a surprise, but for me, it wasn’t a tragedy,” Spears said as she recalled her finding out she was pregnant. “I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than I’d anticipated. But Justin definitely wasn’t happy about the pregnancy. He said we weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young.”
“I’m sure people will hate me for this, but I agreed not to have the baby,” she wrote. “I don’t know if that was the right decision. If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it. And yet Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father.”
“The Woman in Me” is in stores and online.