Please welcome Kandi Burruss.
Hello.
Hi, Kandi.
How are you doing?
Hello.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
I'm good.
I mean, first of all, it's a big deal to win.
But you're the first woman to win The Masked Singer.
How's that feel?
It feels great.
That was like really my goal.
And once I got used to everything
that was happening on the show, I was like, wait a minute.
No other woman has won this?
I have to do it.
And that was really my goal they got me through to the end.
But had you wanted to be on this from the beginning?
Well, the first year they reached out to me.
And my group, we reunited that same year.
And so unfortunately I wasn't available to be a part of it.
But after I saw that T-Pain did it, I was like hmmm.
I need to try to do this if the opportunity ever comes back up.
And it did.
Yeah.
Well, so when you say your group was
getting back together as Xscape, you were in this R&B group.
And you wrote songs for--
I don't know if people know this-- for Whitney Houston,
Mariah Carey, Destiny's Child.
So, I mean, you had a huge career in music before this,
but you said that this show gave you your confidence back.
It did.
Because, I mean, I think for a long time
I haven't put out any music, you know, as a solo artist.
And then doing the show, it just kind of like
revitalized me and made me want to do music again.
Like I actually dropped a new single right now.
And I'm super excited about it.
Oh, that's fantastic.
That's exciting.
So your costume was, it seemed very--
I mean, all the costumes seem crazy that you're
having to perform and sing in.
But how was that costume to perform in?
It was like crazy.
It took me a minute to get used to that because it's so hot.
Like, what you don't know, like all of the costumes
are really, really hot on the inside.
Yeah it was challenging.
Wow.
Yeah, I bet.
And nobody really knows who any--
who else is there.
You didn't know who anybody else was, right?
I had no clue.
Everybody that's on the show, it's
like each week I'm trying to guess people.
When I saw that Lil Wayne was revealed that first week,
I was like, oh my god.
It really made me kind of nervous
because I was like, OK, if Lil Wayne is on here,
no telling who else is on here.
But I'm not going to lie.
I did figure out who the frog was early
because I know his voice.
So this is-- a lot of people are doing
creative things to raise money.
And you have a phone number.
It's a platform called Community,
which I'm also a part of.
Yeah.
And you're using it to help people
that are struggling right now.
Yes, well it's my way to keep in contact with a lot of my fans
and different people who like to reach out to me.
But I do help a lot of people through the Community app.
So sometimes people will text me and say,
hey, you know, I can't, you know, I'm behind on my rent.
Or you know, I need medicine for my children,
are different things that people text me with all the time.
And it's my way of being able to reach out
to them directly and give them information
so that I can help them.
And I started doing that before everybody went in
to quarantine.
This is just something that, you know,
it's just my way to connect with my fans.
And if I can help them in any way, then I try to.
I mean, obviously, you can't help everybody.
But on a--
No.
regular basis, at least once a month,
I try to reach out to someone who's in need of help.
That's very sweet.
That's fantastic.
Yeah, Community is a great app for anybody looking.
You can directly get in touch with people
and find out what we're doing.
Hey, I heard that you haven't gotten the trophy yet.
No.
Well, I guess they didn't want me to tell anybody.
And they wanted to keep it a secret, obviously.
So I--
Right.
I, you know, I was--
for the whole time I've been waiting for my trophy.
But now I can finally get it.
Well--
I'm so excited.
You don't have it because I have it.
They sent it--
Oh!
Why do you have my trophy?
They sent it to me.
Well, I don't know.
But I have it, but I'm sending it to you.
So you're going to have it real soon.
Well, thank you.
Well, congratulations.
You can catch an all new season of The Masked Singer
this fall on Fox.
We'll be right back.
Kandi, congratulations.
This is coming to you.
I would love for everybody to get my single, too.
It's called "Used to Love Me" and is featuring Todrick Hall
as well.
So it's really dope.
I can't wait for everybody to hear it.
"Used to Love Me", fantastic.
Thanks, Kandi.
Thank you.
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God!
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