Keri Hilson Wants You To Know She's Not A Rude Girl!

Keri Hilson is not a conceited rude bitch!

The "Pretty Girl Rock" singer has just finished up the "I Am Still Music Tour," but has been keeping busy helping young girls learn the importance of self esteem and fitness.

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GlobalGrind caught up with Keri to talk about touring with Weezy, college life, sexiness and letting people know she's not even close to conceited! Check it out below. 

When did you realize that what everyone else thinks of you doesn't matter?

Honestly, I learned that probably very early on because I remember in high school everyone would follow trends like Reebok Classics and high socks, or this, that and the other. I always went against the grain and I just wore different stuff. I wasn’t the heel wearing, make-up wearing (girl). I didn’t really get into that early because I was like, 'Who am I impressing? For who? For what?' I was a tomboy and a jock, anyway.

That was something I learned very early and I’m glad I did. I think also my mother had something to do with it. My mom raised four girls and one boy, he’s the baby, and so she set the tone for how we grew up. None of us grew up reaching for acceptance and being in all of the in-crowds, none of that was important to us. Yeah, we knew a lot of people, but it didn’t validate us. We just did us.

With the whole Pretty Girl Rock movement you talked about loving and embracing yourself, and sending that message to women. How do you balance that in an industry that’s so visually stimulating?

It is about balance. I’m not going to say that some days I don’t feel sexy, I’m a woman. It’s the reason you do it. If I genuinely feel that way I’m going to throw on a pair of pumps, or I’m going to want to show a little cleavage. I’m multi-dimensional. Some days I’m in tennis shoes and that’s how I’m feeling, other days I’m in pumps, if that’s how I’m feeling.

You just wrapped up the "I Am Still Music Tour" with Lil Wayne. What was the most fun moment from that? Did anything crazy happen?

I know one show, one of my dancer's got food poisoning. She still wanted to perform but we told her no, (she) should go take care of that and get better. So I had to do the show by myself. I have two dancers, so instead of using one dancer I did the show by myself. It was a rush. It was very different for me on stage because at that point we had become so comfortable with each other and it just felt weird not having them there. But I still ripped the show and no one noticed. 

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