Britney Spears slams Justin Timberlake for trying ‘too hard to fit in’ with black artists

nypost.com:

former boyfriend Justin Timberlake, 42, talking differently around black artists in her new memoir, “The Woman in Me,” which hit shelves Tuesday. “His band, *NSYNC, was what people back then called ‘so pimp,'” Spears writes on Page 57 of the book.“They were white boys, but they loved hip-hop.

To me, that’s what separated them from the Backstreet Boys, who seemed very consciously to position themselves as a white group.”“*NSYNC hung out with black artists.

Sometimes I thought they tried too hard to fit in,” she says. Spears, who dated the “Cry Me a River” singer from 1999 to 2002, then provided a cringeworthy example.“One day J and I were in New York, going to parts of town I’d never been to before.

Walking our way was a guy with a huge, blinged-out medallion. He was flanked by two giant security guards.”“J got all excited and said, so loud, ‘Oh yeah, fo shiz, fo shiz!