Back when B2K were on fire in the early 00’s, the guys attempted to use their fame to help launch the careers of singers close to them, including Omarion’s younger brother O’Ryan and Lil Fizz’s “cousin” Jhene Aiko. Jhene appeared alongside Fizz in B2K’s video for “Why I Love You,” wearing matching Lakers gear with her cuzzo and actually looking very much like him. She was introduced as Fizz’s cousin and put out some music back then, but nothing really popped off. Eventually, she took time off to finish school and have a baby (with O’Ryan actually, LOL), and is making plenty of noise now as a Def Jam artist with a completely new sound. But naturally, Fizz and B2K still get brought up. Turns out, they actually weren’t related at all!

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“The whole me being Lil’ Fizz’s cousin was a marketing tool,” Jhene once revealed in an interview with Vibe. “At the time, I was 12 so I didn’t really care. I wasn’t really involved in that decision, but Drew, that’s his real name, is really close with my family. I’ve known him since I was eight and he was like a cousin. He used to be in a group with my oldest brother when they were little, like 10, so I did grow up around him, but I didn’t know that they were going to say in parentheses by my name ‘Lil Fizz’s cousin.’ Everybody says that, but I don’t really reply to it anymore because it becomes a lot to explain.”

That’s hilarious! As a huge B2K fan back then (I was 13 when they were hot, LOL), I still to this day thought they were cousins. Guess not!

Source: VIBE