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Rapper Bri Steves Alleges ‘Mental and Sexual Abuse’ While Coming Up in the Music Industry

Philadelphia rapper Bri Steves alleges she suffered 'mental and sexual abuse' while coming up in the music industry.

In a new Instagram post, singer and rapper Bri Steves writes that she was a victim of “mental and sexual abuse from men nearly 20 years older than me” while she was coming up in the music industry and signed to a label and a production company. In her statement, which was posted on a black background to her Instagram profile, Steves alleges that the aforementioned men “Controlled every part of my life-my music, my money, where I lived, who l could talk to, what I was allowed to say. Steves alleges that the men have other victims and that other girls and women warned her that “You’ll lose your life if you speak up” and that she “thought being silent would protect me.”

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