Keri Hilson On The Cover Of Complex Magazine

The beautiful and sexy Keri Hilson is strutting her stuff on the cover of Complex Magazine. Hilson gives Complex Magazine a taste of her personality and how she refuses to become another sex object for the hip hop industry. Hmmm, I wonder why she let Kanye and Wayne slap dat azz while she was performing onstage? Cop Complex Magazine to get the full interview about Keri Hilson! Here is brief snippet of some her interview....

So what type of artist do you want to become?

Keri Hilson: If you look at my iTunes, there’s a lot of R&B and a lot less hip-hop. Even though I love it! I’m born and raised in Georgia, so I have a lot of appreciation for hip-hop, but I want to be able to show the emotional side of me.

But you grew up on soul.

Keri Hilson: My dad used to sing in a quartet. He loved everything: adult contemporary, anything smooth. He’d listen to the quartets. My musical influences, without a doubt, come from my dad. No one really pursued music, though. I’m the first. I’m the black sheep. I did go to college—I had to. But I didn’t take business or political science or anything.

Wow, so you were in college, cashing checks?

Keri Hilson: 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.

But it feels like there is a different overall message you’re trying to put forth.

Keri Hilson: I wanted to do an album that expressed a woman’s true thoughts and true feelings about certain situations that we go through. I thought that was missing—the truth part. People do songs that paint themselves as perfect. Like they don’t do this or that: “No, you can’t say this to me or do this to me.” It’s more like storytelling for some people as opposed to exposing who they are, and allowing people to relate to them. That’s what I wanted to accomplish—I wanted to touch people in ways that I was touched. I wanted it to be relatable.

Haven’t both of them touched your ass onstage before?

Keri Hilson: Yeah, they have. Onstage. Onstage. What am I there to do? Entertain. Onstage, we’re entertainers. Onstage, a married man is still an entertainer. It means he’s an entertainer first when he’s onstage. Offstage? Very respectful. They would never touch my ass offstage, I’ll tell you that much.