The R&B crooner is facing a bit of backlash.
Cancel Culture is coming for Jon B. The singer gained prominence back in the 1990s and went on deliver his hit singles like “Someone to Love,” “They Don’t Know,” and his Tupac-assisted “Are You Still Down.” Jon B continues to consistently tour and release music, but the singer has become a target of Cancel Culture after an interview clip resurfaced of him speaking about touring with Destiny’s Child at the beginning of their career.
“My first major tour was with Destiny’s Child as the opening act for me and Jagged Edge as the opening act,” he said. “So, we’re all labelmates and we’re all going to the radio stations to promote our records together all as a unit. I love that, because we don’t do that anymore. You think about it, it was Beyonce in the beginning of her career, so I was looking at a little 16, 17-year-old Beyoncé just like [wide-eyed and mouth open],” he said as he laughed.
He continued to chuckle nervously. “I’m sorry but…’cause I’m a grown man at the time, it’s kinda wrong, but you know. You already know,” he added with a finger point. Quickly, he moves on to another subject. “It was awesome to be able to like, come up on the side of the stage while they’re performing, Destiny’s Child was doing the…back then it was ‘Bills, Bills, Bills’ and all these records and just watching them do their thing then come off the stage and be like ‘Yay, that was really good. Kill it Jon!’ Beyoncé telling me to kill it. That’d be huge now. If I could open up for Beyoncé now. Switch it around. It’s definitely something fun to look back at.”
People were not happy with hearing Jon speak about a teenaged Beyoncé in that fashion, especially following the accusations that recently made headlines regarding Jagged Edge and Destiny’s Child. While the criticism is thick, there were some who didn’t know why he would ever admit this on camera and others who don’t believe that he did anything wrong. Watch his clip and check out a few mixed reactions below.
This is reminding me of Mathew's story about Jagged Edge harassing Beyonce & Kelly on their Jon B tour. Even Jon B is creepily admitting 2 sexually eyeing Bey when she was only 16y/o. IDK about JE but I know too many of these grown men are nasty af! pic.twitter.com/VcWJ7YspNw
— MerryBeyChristmas🎄🎅🔔❄ (@BeyDayBB) December 24, 2019
Jon B talking about looking at an underage Beyoncé when he was in his 20’s is the ultimate case of TMI. As far as we know, he never acted upon it beyond just staring but that’s still kinda screwed up.
— Yxng Lrzd Boi (@yxnglzrdboi) December 27, 2019
I dont think Jon B is cancelled… But lets be honest, a lot of men where looking at Beyonce like "damn" when she came out https://t.co/qu8RnBM2az
— Miss Melissa (@_MelissaRenee_) December 26, 2019
So ppl are thinking about canceling Jon B for his crush on an underage Beyonce… smh why admit it? I'm going out on a limb by saying most men look at underage girls, but don't pursue anything with them. Also, don't admit it. Wise.
— TMichelle (@terracotablue) December 26, 2019
Jon B, what made you wake up and think to yourself I'm gone tell I was looking at Beyonce when she was 16 and I was 7yrs older? #JonB #Beyonce pic.twitter.com/61pSqR2xGC
— Meshia (@Meshia212) December 26, 2019
Wait ! People wanna cancel jon B for having a crush on younger beyonce? Then they need to cancel 98% of all them men in the industry
— im_so_a1 (@OneAzBad_Gyrl) December 26, 2019
why would Jon B even say what he said? 🙄🙄🙄🙄🤦🏽♀️. and about beyonce? KNOWING these people don’t play about that woman ……..
— chas. (@_chasxoo) December 26, 2019
Why am I not surprised this was someone's outlook on the Jon b, Beyonce situation smh https://t.co/14zSBHGZLW
— MerryBeyChristmas🎄🎅🔔❄ (@BeyDayBB) December 24, 2019
