K. Michelle has never been easy to put in a box. She is a Memphis-bred country singer with multiple Billboard charted albums, a Real Housewives of Atlanta newcomer, and a woman who once crashed into a fence during an argument about Uber. When Jason Lee sat down with her for the debut episode of his new BET show, all of it came spilling out.

The conversation is exactly the kind of unfiltered hour that made K. Michelle a star in the first place. She covered her surprise courthouse marriage to a high school sweetheart, the NBA coach she was dating when she walked into the “Real Housewives” network meeting with a whole different husband in tow, and why she still feels Black people owe the artists grinding in Nashville an overdue apology.

She and her dentist husband have known each other since high school. After ten years on and off, she was actually dating an NBA coach when the RHOA opportunity landed. The coach, she said, was perfect on paper until he showed up to the casting meeting furious that the producers only wanted to talk about her. She called her husband that night, told him it was now or never, and he flew to Nashville. They got married the next day. Then she went to New York, left him around the corner, walked into the network meeting, and announced she had a new husband. "I made it an event," she said, laughing. "I do do reality."

K. Michelle has been one of a small group of Black artists fighting for space in Nashville long before Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter made it a cultural conversation. She has no issue with Beyoncé. What stung was watching her own community mock her for years, then use the album's release to poke at her. "I was more bothered how they laughed at me," she said. "To watch black people destroy me." She noted that of the roughly 15 Black Nashville artists who had been grinding before Cowboy Carter dropped, most lost their record deals in the aftermath. Her upcoming album Outlaws is named for the country music tradition she identifies with most: artists who say what needs to be said and take every shot that comes their way.

On the housewives front, she credited castmate Phaedra Parks with guiding her through the season's harder moments and had considerably less to say about Robin Dixon, who questioned her place on the show. "I could die right now and you still wouldn't catch up."

When Lee asked what the biggest misconception about her is, she did not hesitate. "I think people think that I start stuff and that I am angry. I'm never the girl who comes in the room to be negative. If you come for me, I'm going to finish it. But I never start nothing." Lee backed her on it. And the audience watching Season 17 of "Real Housewives of Atlanta" can judge for themselves.

Watch the episode below: