Brandon Scott Sessoms—better known to fans as B. Scott—is raising the flag at Black Pride this year in Chicago. Sessoms moved into the spotlight with original YouTube videos and a personal website, www.lovebscott.com, and is debuting the song "Kiss Kiss." The "Multimedia Maven" called up for a quick chat recently.
Windy City Times: Heyyy, B! How did you get started with this life? You are from North Carolina?
B. Scott: Yes, I am from Ahoskie, N.C., which is a small Native American town. I grew up on a farm. I never quite fit in, needless to say, because I am multiethnic—my mother is Irish and my father is African/Native American.
I have always been different and androgynous. I was dealing with my sexuality but not really allowing myself to focus on that so I suppressed it because of the environment. I focused on how I could get out of this farm town in North Carolina. I found out about the North Carolina School of Science and Math. It is a boarding school for people who are gifted in science and math. I wanted to go so I could get away. I went there; then to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a full ride. I came out my sophomore year in college.
Windy City Times: So coming out was a process.
B. Scott: People look at me and assume that I have always been out and proud my whole life but that is not the case. I came out my sophomore year, when my ex-girlfriend's boyfriend kissed me.
Windy City Times: Drama!
B. Scott: Then from there I graduate early from Chapel Hill. I went to Washington, D.C., for about four years. I was a realtor and did interior design. I made a lot of money but wasn't happy though. I broke up with my ex then moved to LA with three red suitcases. That's all I had was three red suitcases, honey! I had never been to L.A. a day in my life before. I started doing print work in 2005. I kept hearing, "You're too gay, too androgynous—if we wanted a girl we would have gotten one." I did an ad for high-definition television when it first came out with Katy Perry. This was before she was the Katy Perry we know today, but I played her boyfriend in the ad. That was funny and a little tidbit for you. [Both laugh.]
Windy City Times: When did you start your website?
B. Scott: I wanted to make a name for myself after that. In 2007 I started LoveBScott.com . In June of that year I did my very first YouTube video about Shemar Moore's ding-ding. I was so excited about the nude pictures of Shemar! That video was posted on all of the major blogs. It snowballed after that.
I made more videos talking about my life, drama with my Ethiopian neighbors, my sister's death—I was real, I was me. This was therapy for me. Celebrities started watching and reaching out to me for interviews. That led to Mariah Carey, who is now one of my closest friends. We were just featured in Life & Style, where she did a piece about our friendship.
Windy City Times: When did that come out?
B. Scott: It came out last Friday. She is such a godsend for me. Growing up being mixed heritage she was my idol. She gave me inspiration to be who I am, at least as far as my ethnicity goes. To celebrate it and not try to fit in, to be okay with who I was. To not only meet and interview her but become one of her closest friends is just amazing.
Windy City Times: Who else have you interviewed?
B. Scott: I have interviewed her [and] Chaka Khan. Jamie Foxx is a huge fan of mine. He offered me my own radio show on Sirius XM. I did that for a year before I left because of personal reasons I needed to go on. I started making television appearances such as The Tyra Banks Show, Oxygen's Hair Battle Spectacular and Access Hollywood. I knew by coming to L.A. that I was interested in entertainment, but this is where God starts to work in your life and dreams become reality. You have to dream bigger and check things off a list to go for the next thing.
Windy City Times: Now you have a single called "Kiss Kiss."
B. Scott: Yes; I have been doing fun songs for awhile like "Paw Paw," which is a dance I do. I have songs called "Androgynous" "Glamour and Glitter "and "Come for the Queen." They have been fun songs but nothing serious. It was more just for the brand. The song "Kiss Kiss" is produced by Midi Mafia. It is fun and sexy. It is about not fighting with your man—make it right and "Kiss Kiss" up and down your body. [Laughs] It is naughty and fun.
Windy City Times: Did you make a video for it yet?
B. Scott: I am in the process for making a video for it. We are commissioning the remixes now. It is coming on iTunes. It has been featured on many different blogs. It came out around the time of the Kim Kardashian song came out. I won in all the polls of B. Scott vs. Kim Kardashian!
Windy City Times: Good for you; I didn't care for her song too much. I was rooting for her, though.
B. Scott: I was rooting for her, too. Girl, it seemed like she was very unenthused. Why did she sing the song if she didn't want to?
Windy City Times: Right. I felt the same way.
B. Scott: That's Kim K. So the new video will come out within a month or so. It probably will pick up from where my "When Christmas Comes" video [leaves off]. Mariah had asked me to promote her second single off of her Merry Christmas II You album. I did a full-out video as if I was Mariah, but B. Scott style. One of the men in the video was Benjamin Patterson from Noah's Arc. We had a very sexy kiss at the end and he proposes to me. We are going to pick it up—maybe we are arguing on our wedding day and then it goes into a bedroom scene. He is very hot.
Windy City Times: I was surprised that Mariah album didn't do better.
B. Scott: It did pretty good for a Christmas album in this day and age. People are not selling records like they used to. I think the album solidified her owning Christmas. "All I Want for Christmas" is a classic. Mother is almost 70 years old and has to play that Christmas album every year now.
Windy City Times: Do you have an interview that you would love to do?
B. Scott: I put a video on YouTube recently saying that I am coming after Beyonce. I met her right before she did the performance on the Grammys with Tina Turner. She is very kind and a fan of mine. I would love to do the interview and she could teach me the "Uh oh!"
Another dream come true for me [happened recently, when] I was the host for Jeffrey Sanker's White Party in Palm Springs, which is the biggest gay part in the nation. I had a moment with Charo.
Windy City Times: She is a blast to talk to!
B. Scott: She taught me how to do the "Sexy Sexy." I loved it! I will cherish that moment for the rest of my life. She is almost 80 years old and looks that fabulous.
Windy City Times: You are coming to Chicago this summer.
B. Scott: I will be there for Black Gay Pride. I will be hosting their White Party, which is their biggest event. It is on July 3. I think the Taste of Chicago is going on at the same time. I can't wait to experience Chicago. I have never been there before. I will text you when I get there.
B. drops into the Mid Lounge Sunday, July 3, 10 p.m.-4 a.m. for White Haute, the official white event for Chicago's Black Gay Pride. Tickets are $25 in advance at luxseries.com . For more of the "Maven" click over to www.lovebscott.com .
