At one point, Keri Hilson was super hot. Then she was not after dissing Beyoncé in a verse on her “Turnin’ Me On” Remix. We never knew what sparked that diss, but Hilson revealed it all during her recent appearance on The Breakfast Club.
In case you never heard the diss, it’s available below:
“Your vision cloudy if you think that you’re the best You can dance, she can sing But she need to move it to the left, left She need to go have some babies She needs to sit down, she fake.”
Now, Hilson revealed “those are not my words” and the remix was forced by producer Polow da Don and another writer penned the verse.
“I come into the studio, and he plays me this verse. I’m automatically like, ‘I’m not saying that,” Hilson said.
She revealed she folded to Polow’s “shock-jock mentality,” revealing he was quite “forceful” that she sang it as is and threatened her career.
“The mistake that I made was not continuing to fight,” Hilson said.
She added, “I had to eat that and I am still eating it to this day.”
You can hear it from Hilson below.
But who wrote the diss? Ester Dean. She cops to it below.
Ester Dean comes clean today after the viral Keri Hilson interview about being the writer behind the infamous Turnin Me On Remix, that was meant to be a Beyoncé & Ciara diss record. Keri Hilson said it was Polow Da Don who forced her to record it and he leaked it. pic.twitter.com/OwQgATwcRS
— Black Culture News (@blackculturenew) April 9, 2025