The 2001 remake of Patti Labelle’s 1974 classic “Lady Marmalade” was one of the most successful collaborations of the decade, bringing together pop divas Pink, Christina Aguilera, Mya and rapper Lil’ Kim. In a new interview, the Brooklyn MC dishes on the chemistry between the ladies behind-the-scenes of the VMA-winning video, saying she sensed “tension” between them, even while getting along with everyone herself.

“We worked really hard that day,” the original Queen Bee told Billboard. “I remember there was a little tension because, you know, Mya’s my girl … but a lot of the girls didn’t know each other. I knew almost everybody, but it was like everyone was in their own little corner.

“Everybody talked to me, but everybody else wasn’t talking to each other,” she continued. “Everybody loved each other, don’t get me wrong, but they didn’t know each other, so it was like, ‘let me talk to Kim, because I know Kim.’ It was hard ‘cuz I had to be the host of ‘Lady Marmalade.’”

Years after the Grammy-winning hit was released, it was revealed that there was indeed tension between Aguilera and Pink over the song, with Pink claiming during a 2009 episode of “Behind the Music” that the soaring soprano essentially bullied her way into singing the song’s climax by bringing label exec Ron Fair to their initial meeting.

“Ron Fair walked in. He didn’t say hi to any of us and said, ‘What’s the high part? What’s the most singing part? Christina’s going to take that part.’ And I stood up, and I said ‘Hi. How are you? So nice of you to introduce yourself. I’m Pink. She will not be taking that part. I think that’s what the f—king meeting’s about.’”

Both Aguilera and the “Try” singer claim to have squashed the beef, with Pink tweeting in 2017 that the two have “made amends.”

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