Selah continued: “She was just very angry. So, so, so, so, so, so angry. She was literally not easy to talk to and then half the time we didn’t live with her. I lived with my grandparents half the time… It’s crazy, I’m playing this trauma back in my head as I speak to you.” Selah said the singer would hold them by their raised arms and beat them like that. “And then the threats, the constant threats… That belt man. That’s that slave sh*t. All Black parents were on that sh*t.”
She did admit things changed when she became a teenager.