Johnny Gill on Being Told that He was Too Dark to Date R&B Singer Stacy Lattisaw (Part 3) 

Colorism was something serious back then and unfortunately its still a issue today

His version of “Give love on Christmas Day” is my favorite.

I'm proud to be a dark skinned man and I love myself it's 👌 ok

Johnny Gill doesn’t sing he SANG. There is a big difference.

“Perfect Combination” is a classic, Johnny voice always sound good. I love Stacy “Let Me Be Your Angel” as well, both are great songs!

As a chocolate Blackman growing up in the 80s, all I gotta say is thank God for Michael Jordan and Wesley Snipes because they made it cool and sexy to be a dark skinned Brother

I was a bouncer at a Club called Pulsations in the Philadelphia Area. Johnny and Stacey were there on Johnny's 21st Birthday. I had to be his security that night. They both were very nice and great to be around.

Poor Johnny didnt realize how beautiful of soul mind and body he was inside and out back in his younger days

The Colorism in the 80s was terrible. You had to look like Vanity or Jasmine Guy to be cast in a black project

Stacy has alluded to the real reason she broke up with him on numerous occasions but because she doesn't have the platform that he has to tell her story, it doesn't make headlines. Whilst both are entitled to tell whatever version of events they deem to be the truth, I just wish she'd also be given the opportunity to tell her version on a larger platform, since it does paint her in a negative light even though this was decades ago.

Wesley Snipes was the guy that helped break the colorism in movies during the 80s.

I remember as a kid having my mother tell me to not go to the park and play basketball because I was getting too dark. That's what a lot of our parents learned coming from the south.

This man has always and still is the total package. He’s got it all🫶🏽❤️

One of the greatest and most underrated R&B singers of all time.

Sounds like outsiders influenced what Johnny said and felt. Stacy's mother was probably trying to protect her daughter in that industry and her heart. Even Stacy said there was a lot going on to make her leave the industry.

I love Johnny Gill first album, that he put out when he was 16. I still have the album in perfect condition and it still sounds great.

“Lady Dujoir is still my jam.

Mr Johnny Gil is the full package. He is a handsome professional musician. R.I.P to Gerald Levertt who was also a beautiful dark skin addition to the group with Johnny from LSG with Keith Sweat. 😎 😎

Vlad’s timing’s impeccable because Diddy coincidentally posted a throwback two days ago. He was a background dancer in one of Stacy’s vids.

Great interview. I never would have thought Johnny Gill had a complex about his skin color as a child 😯 🙁. Adults perpetrating colorism should not be embraced or tolerated. Regardless of the colorism assumption, it just wasn't meant for Johnny to be with Stacy because they were not compatible based on her statements in recent years. Stacy was critical to Johnny's early success and it's obvious she is not into colorism considering who her long time husband is. They should not have any hard feelings with each other, no one is perfect.

Spike Lee spoke on colorism in "School daze"! Its truly a learned prejudice.

Love JGs sense of humor he's a real one.

I always hate to hear parents call a certain child this is my black one, we need to stop saying that it creates divide in our children and it’s ignorant af definitely not cool

I’m an older dude/darker dude too , and I never had any problems either. In fact , when I was coming up , there was a saying “the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice” , as well as “opposites attract”. And that was and is so true, cause I’ve seen it with my own eyes several times.

my grandpa was darker than Johnny & my grandmother was as light or even more lighter skinned than Stacy ....glad it worked out for them

JG is a legend...I hate that he & Stacy Lattisaw was subjected to that B.S..

"Where do we go from here" is was the jam! They were singing their asses off on that song!

Thanks Jim Brown, Lou Gossett ,Micheal Jordan and Emitt Smith Colorism was DEEP back in the day

Today I've had a extremely nostalgic experience on RU-vid and now hear this guy is

I love his music. Always have . I hope we as Americans really get over the skin color thing.

Janet Jackson told Bobby Brown that her father Joe Jackson would never approve of her marrying him because he was too dark

Look like Johnny got dat Bobby Brown jaw!!

Yeah, that's funny because Stacy's husband Kevin is the same complexion as Johnny.

Johnny is dark and handsome.

Johnny and Eddie Murphy...how u doin

Stacey Lattisaw refutes this. She did an interview talking about it.

Google Stacy Lattisaw husband. Same complexion and she been married 30 years. She get upset and she is very hurt . It’s a lie 🧢and sounds like the executive was trying to keep them apart.

Love this man!❤

I don’t believe it, Stacey’s husband is dark. Bullcrap, Stacey and her brother said it was another reason why they’re Mother didn’t want her to be with Johnny. The Mother saw something.

So glad Johnny shared this, I say the samething about myself when I was a kid alotta black girls used to tell me I was too dark for them and I hated being in the sun too long. I learned about preferences by the time I was 13yrs old so when I see videos of outrage about men dont wanna date black women or want light skin women over dark skin women, I be shocked ppl take it to heart like it's forbidden or sumin. I learned as a kid that everyone has their preferences, I thought everyone knew this. When I became a grown man most black women want me now, I haven't had any trouble neither. I guess that was a phase back then, like Johnny said. Let everyone have their preference regardless of how you disagree or how you rather live. You live your way and let other ppl live their way, it's someone out here for all of us. The only thing stopping women from getting what's for them is their ego, unrealistic expectations, they get in their own way of chasing this perfect man and perfect happy relationship like we see on TV, they keep throwing good men away because it aint perfect and they're not perfectly happy EVERYDAY but you're never gonna find perfect. Find someone that love your dirty underwear and do their best for you and chill out and appreciate it and lock in with him.

It's starts at home. Lights skin vs dark skin. Good hair vs bad hair

His response was My My…My My My

Remind me of one of my uncles in DC

Stacy's husband is not light-skinned, so...Johnny had an issue because of what Henry Allen, and his brothers said to him, not Saundra or Stacy. I have found that dark-skinned people tease other dark-skinned people worse than light-skinned people do about skin color. Like Rick James on Charlie and Eddie Murphy. And Vlad, there are Africans that have a color complex, not sure what you're talking about. There is a problem of women lightening their skin and straightening their hair.

It is ashamed that he suffered through the effects of Colorism and TOLD that lie from the music executives. I was there and that did not come from the family, our family came in all the beautiful complexions of our race. We knew they liked each other, he is right the concern was simply about them when they started getting too serious so young! Puppy love transitioning into physical which would have been a concern regardless of complexion.

All this color stuff needs to stop. Now if you a lightskin male, that supposed to mean you soft. Just like back in the day, all this stuff like being dark was a bad thing. It just all gotta stop.

His mannerisms remind me of Dennis Rodman.

I'm glad he cleared it up about Stacey's family having issues with Johnny's skin tone.

Thank you Wesley Snipes and MJ. And of course Ali that help dark and brown Black men share the spotlight with our fair skin Brothers. Colorism is silly.

The self hatred in our community is a catastrophe I'm 36 and I've conducted my own personal study not only is colorism a thing yesterday and today but I find that in America you don't find to many dark skin couples and that's a disaster because I'm dark and I love dark skin women but all of the ones I check for is check-in on some white Latino or light dude WE NEED A DIVINE RESET

🎤JOHNNY,BBD , RALPH AND BOBBY...I KEPT THE GROUP TOGETHER BECAUSE I HAD ALL THEIR MUSIC WHEN THEY SPLIT.

Blacker the berry sweeter the juice , dont every forget that Mr Johnny Gill Vlad Tv nice 🎵🎶💯🫶🏾👑

Are you gonna ask him about living with Eddie Murphy?

Johnny & Stacey should’ve done that song Saturday Love! …that would’ve been dope!

If you were born in the late 80s early 90s just know your parents was knockin boots roomizoomzoomin and slappin skinns to Jonnys song😂😂😂

Fine and dark

Even though it’s sad and pathetic, I love how Vlad, as a whole ass white man acknowledges and actually discuss colorism within the Black community. Our own people seethes and gags the moment someone mentions it, or say “wE aLl bLaCk aT tHe eNd iF tHe dAy” while colorism THRIVES and is prioritized amongst BLACK people

But their voices were such a 🎶 perfect combination🎶 because you know I have to sing it.

❤❤❤Perfect Combination was my favorite duet❤

I was getting ready to say I'm glad people have matured , no Eddie jokes, until I scrolled down further in the comments. 😁

Perfect Combination...The Star came out...I remember that song...and Love on a 2way Street...Ms Lattisaw...Mr Gill and New Edition should receive the Medal of Freedom...Great Americans...

I’m a tall , dark skin brother and it’s true 80 and 90’s was tough on us, heard it all from my own race. I’m black and I’m proud.

Vlad was trying to lead Johnny to say something that he did not say.

He gives me Stevie Wonder vibes and I’m loving it.

Perfect combination is my favorite

Of all the things that could negatively affect a Black man, why does hearing that they're too dark for some lightskin female burn worst of all? 😢 🔥

I like A Perfect Combination but Where Do We Go From Here is my favorite by them two.

I grew up the darkest in my family my too!! My cousin use to tell me when I die they gon put my name in a black tee 😂😂 it’s all good now

Johnny G said he was on his pimping way back then lol😂😂😂😂! Love you Bro many blessings and success in the future to come!

Hello and good day to you Ladies and Gentlemen watching this video 💯

A perfect combinaaaaatiooon God blessed you with me 🎉❤

Well good thing Eddie Murphy isn't light, because he dated him.

According to Stacy Lattisaw, that wasn't true. She claims it was something else why her family didn't want her with him. She said her mother saw something and it wasn't his complexion. Stacy is married to a dark skinned man and has been for many years. What Johnny is saying is some bull.

Interview Stacy next

I hope he talks about the Charlie Murphy Oscar dela Hoya story!!

Love Johnny Gill but I’m Not feelin that shirt 😂

Johnny Gill I love you so much I'm yo biggest fan I'll never forget the day I met you ❤

We have it in Africa as well, it's not just in America unfortunately

Johnny Gill...how u doin?

Is it me or is Johnny higher than a giraffe on Everst 😊

I❤ johnny gill mane! He is my favorite of New edition. It's johnny, ronnie and bobby brown but i like johnny gill more.🥰!

“The R&B chart which isn’t the main chart”. FOH!!!

What album was "Half Crazy" on? I need to look that one up...

Could be true. DC has a long history of a black elite. Unfortunately, skin tone was a factor in what became the black bourgeoisie

I want a deep skinned Black man to approach me! I’m brown skin, and just imagine the beautiful babies. Deep skinned Black men, we want you and we love you. Your melanin is strong and it makes you beautiful - men AND women!

Stacy and Johnny were dating...according to Right On! Magazine...

😢 really sad!😢

Johnny still looks so well kept....wow.

Where....have I been...knowbody told me...bless his heart...when did Johnny Gill go blind...that crooner has adjusted well..good for him....yesZzz Lawd

Stacy lattisaw is my cousin who I’ve never met due to me not being close to my fathers side. Hopefully one day me and my daughter will be able to meet her and the rest of the fam 🫡

You’re beautiful Johnny. Love your skin tone

I don't even remember the album. I was in the Marines at the time I do remember his duet with Stacey though!!

Oh wow...They looked gr8 together

Because everyone in America has to b a victim of something. If people aren't feeling sorry for you they aren't gonna give you any money....SMMFH STOP BLAMING THE PAST FOR YOUR PRESENT SITUATION

I lived in that era as well and we as black people would degrade ourselves because our skin tone

Ive always love handsome dark man. Johnny holla at me I love in DC. I love your voice.

WAYMENT.....!!!! so now a "music exec is the one that told u that her mom thought u were too dark for Stacy" and not the mom herself telling u or u hearing it directly from her family? Hmmmmm....sounds like spin to me for the Real reason she broke up with you.

Colorism will never end in the black community. I could see it coming from the white community, but it even worse when it comes from the black community. Had to apologize to my daughter that she has to go through this same colorism I went through as a child.

@7:24 Johnny Gill, I have been saying for years! If being Black was so bad, why do Caucasians light-skinned people so obsessed with getting their skin darker!! Baffles me!

@7:30....these folks don't relaly wanna be dark like him. It's maybe adding some color to look South Asian at most. I guarantee you Taylor Swift doesn't tan hoping to look like Viola Davis