Justin Timberlake Viral ‘Fo-Shiz’ Comment Britney Spears Wrote About: Ginuwine Shares His Side

After getting eliminated on Wednesday's episode of The Masked Singer, R&B star Ginuwine opened up about a viral quote from Britney Spears' memoir The Woman In Me where she wrote that her ex, Justin Timberlake, approaching him in a cringe-inducing way.

"Nah, I don’t remember that," the "Pony" singer told Billboard. "I would have probably looked at him very weird if he did that like she said."

Ginuwine did have a kind word to say about him though: "I just don’t remember that, but I remember him [Timberlake] being a cool dude and me kicking it down there in Florida with [*NSYNC’s] producer at one time."

According to Spears, she and Timberlake were in NYC when the encounter with Genuine occurred. "One day J and I were in New York, going to parts of town I’d never been to before. Walking our way was a guy with a huge, blinged-out medallion. He was flanked by two giant security guards," she recalls. "J got all excited and said, so loud, 'Oh yeah, fo shiz, fo shiz! Ginuwiiiiiine! What’s up, homie?'"

It didn't go unnoticed by Spears' assistant. "After Ginuwine walked away, Felicia did an impression of J: 'Oh yeah, fo shiz, fo shiz! Ginuwiiiiiine!' J wasn’t even embarrassed. He just took it and looked at her like, Okay, f--- you, Fe. That was the trip where he got his first necklace — a big T for Timberlake," she concluded.

Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams read the moment aloud in the audiobook, and it quickly went viral.

Spears went on to say N*SYNC "was what people back then called 'so pimp.' They were white boys, but they loved hip-hop." She reflected, "To me that's what separated them from the Backstreet Boys, who seemed very consciously to position themselves as a white group. NSYNC hung out with Black artists. Sometimes I thought they tried too hard to fit in."