Kandi Burriss as the next RHOA???

Entertainment Weekly (ew.com) is reporting that the former member of 90's R&B group XSCAPE is slated to be the replacement for Deshawn Snow. I don't get this one at all. Why her? They should have gone ahead and chosen Tameka (Tiny) Cottle, another former memeber of XSCAPE. You would have had the T.I. factor and used that angle for more publicity since he is about to start a jail sentence on March 27th. The new season started filming this week, I believe.