American actress and R&B singer and songwriter Tamika Scott is best known as the one-fourth part of the multi-platinum-selling R&B group Xscape, which enjoyed its prime years in the 1990s.
The College Park native has practiced her craft in contemporary R&B, soul, hip hop, and new jack swing genres.
Read the full article to know about the Atlanta native's alleged s*x tape scandal, husband, kids, net worth & Xscape career.
When Did Tamika Scott join Xscape?
Born on 19 November 1975 (age 47) in College Park, Georgia, United States to teacher mother Gloria McFarlin and pastor father Randolph Scott, Tamika grew up singing choirs in the church by age six.
Not only the songs of god, but the 'Greatest Gift' songstress also got music practitioners in her home who could relate to her what it meant to creatively create music. If you didn't know, her father and uncles had a singing group called Scott Three in the 1970s.
Thanks to her early passion for music, young Tamika would participate in local talent shows and even weddings.
After graduating from the Tri-Cities School of Performing Arts in 1993, Scott continued pursuing music with her band Xscape, which she had co-founded with another highschooler Kandi Burruss, her sister LaTocha (previously a member of Precise) and later recruited (by audition) Tameka "Tiny" Cottle after the exit of Tamera Coggins.
Back in 1992, the group had a breakthrough performance at BET'sTeen Summit, which was also attended by record executive Ian Burke.
Burke would later play a prominent role as a manager in signing the group to Jermaine Dupri's So So Def Recordings.
Altogether, The group released three Billboard-rated studio albums, Hummin' Comin' at 'Cha, Off the Hook, and Traces of My Lipstick, before their disbandment in 1999 due to LaTocha Scott's exit to pursue a solo career amidst brewing tensions among the members.
In the year 2004, The Scott sisters, Cottle, and new member Kiesha Miles tried reviving the group by releasing the single titled 'What's Up," but they eventually disbanded in 2005.
After 18 years of hiatus, the original four members of the group, Burruss, Cottle, and the Scott sisters, performed together at the 2017 BET awards. After that, the group did a reunion tour and went to different television shows to promote their music.
But Again, Burruss decided to pursue a solo career. She had joined the group after controversy surrounding who initially broke the group, which also included allegations from Tamika Scott that Buruss' affair with label head Jermaine Dupri and his father, Michael Mauldin tore the group apart. Scott later apologized to Burruss.
Currently, the three members, excluding LaTocha Scott, continue to perform as the collective XCAPE after LaTocha left the group because of the dispute between a promoter and her husband and the group's manager, Rocky Bivens.
The Beef Between the Scott Sister and the S*ex Tape Scandal
After Tamika Scott made an allegation that her sister LaTochaa Scott stole royalties from her with the help of her husband and the group's manager Rocky Bivens, LaTochaa denied the allegations stating, “Rocky brings more shows, we make more money, and I still ain’t heard about no $30,000! For the record, I did not steal $30,000 from my sister. You know how she do,” LaTochaa said "before inserting a clip of Tamika admitting to lying on Kandi on Watch What Happens Live," according to Vibe.
Later in March 2023, she uploaded a Youtube video in response to LaTochaa's interview. Tamika said,
I said the things I said about Kandi to protect her. She was calling me crying on the phone, talking about a book Jermaine wrote, crying, saying Kandi said she broke up the group, so I went to defend my sister and I said a whole bunch of things about Kandi, and I apologized, alright? So now, she wants to hold that over my head that I’m lying about the money that was stolen from me, my royalties that were stolen from me. And she wants an apology.
The 'Tonite' songstress then insisted that she would night apologize or demand an apology from her sister. Rather, she argued that her sister should “go somewhere and repent and ask God to forgive you and your husband, who’s out here being triflin’, lying on me and my other group members, sending threat text messages and then turning around and do a video saying the same thing that’s in the threat text.”
But the most shocking part of Tamika's video was yet to come After she labeled her sister and her husband the "simplest criminals in the world," she showcased a screenshot of a text message she said was from her sister LaTochaa, threatening to release naked pictures Tamika allegedly sent to her husband Rocky and Tamika's sex tape from the year 2016.
Tamika accuses her sister LaTocha of threatening her (Source: Youtube)
Then after, she also went on to describe how she thought her sister and sister's husband stole the amount from her.