Crews 
Legend, Icon, Powerhouse, all of these are words you can associate Ms. Patti Labelle with, but one she prefers to not be tied to is DIVA! Patti has been setting the internet ablaze with an interview with PrideSource where the she denounces the word diva because in her words “Too many heifers who can’t sing are called divas”. Peep what she had to say about the newer generation of girls and see why if you want to ever hear it straight you go to Ms. Patti.
For you, what does it mean to be a diva?
That word is used so loosely that I don’t even consider myself a diva. I always considered myself a woman who sings her heart out and who gives 120 percent. “Diva” is a word that I wouldn’t wanna call myself because it’s so loosely used. It’s not cute anymore.
Is there a negative connotation to it now?
Yeah, because all these little heifers who can’t sing are called divas! It doesn’t mean anything to me and probably to some of the other ladies who have been doing it for as long as I have: Gladys Knight, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick. You know, I’m speaking for me – I don’t know if they like to be called divas – but I know I wouldn’t call them divas, because it’s not in good company.
But it used to be a respectable term at some point.
Well, for opera singers, and for ladies who earned it, but that was way, way back when. Now you can look up to them, but you might not see what you wanna see. A hot mess! People who are doing it and doing it with about 40 people on stage with them to hide their pitifulness – that’s not a word, but you know what I mean.
Did she lie though?? The word diva used to actually hold some merit, but now a days its tossed around and given to any chick who has one number one single, along with other titles such as Icon and legend when in fact these acts are nothing more than current fads, but I digress. I wonder who in particular she was speaking of, we have a few ideas.
