lend. a. today on larry king outrage songs i still consider myself a student again but very seasoned and after five albums of hustle and bustle and trying to separate yourself and make your name known and really perfection crafting after feeling that you've accomplished enough to breathe and exhale i was able to make those out the first six songs i recorded were sent to me and trey's songs seriously they took to me and nobody liked it like my mom told me i was crazy everybody hated the name but that. is definitely hard to differentiate sex symbolism from real life when you're trying to sell that was in trying to have a successful career we've seen some stars choose what fans may think the wrong love interest is when their sales plummeted image plans and even women might get you for the only reason of course they do from time to time and that was said so will i use

that it plus you were just in bieber yes what did you make of his use of the n. word i think we all make mistakes the fact that he owned up to it and not went away from it is something that we need to very much encourage all next on larry king now . welcome to larry king our special guest trey songz he is the grammy nominee multi-platform selling singer songwriter rapper and international sex symbol sympathetic to sex that will see at the same time jewish. trace six studio album trigger is out july first is it true as a kid you didn't think you'd pursue music is a new little farfetched coming from world from schooling that haven't seen many

people achieve much outside of. graduating from high school at least in my early age you know. the highs. employer my hometown was wal-mart we had to wal-mart's within probably a ten minute radius so there's a lot of. you know it's a hard workers but nobody really expected numbers outside of a bubble. a lot of strife a lot of a young mother you know mother was seventeen when she had still a house school like i have one of my favorite porches of hers actually one of my my father well not really and i have a great relationship with. painting a portrait of her while she was pregnant with me and like i was saying you and i was like i actually wanted a strong is pretty close the smile is so bright but speaking to a later on in life you know she was just going through so much at that time what was it like being raised by someone who was a teacher. we grew up together in a lot of ways you know because he was very stern you know. and she was very

committed to making sure that my life was better than hers you know she i actually remember enter college years me going to school with her i got a number. laid on having to catch the bus. myself excuse me you know she would catch another burst in like a city bus because then everybody else could discover us but as you had to walk means it is a bus and then she had to get another city bus to go to work another bus to meet me back at my city bus and just got on. the story. you shine with a limit reduce when you're a teenager right now didn't you. at the age of fifteen i was privileged enough to meet somebody i could make something like that happen are true to my mentor producer met through my mother's ex-husband sujoy edition for not atlantic audition for choice for years and i eventually signed the troy west saying in his basement. and then i would spend summers with him i would spend all my christmas vacations

every day case and i had as a kid i would go to learn how to be a better singer and a better record. when i graduated in. seventeen i was given a year by my mother to either get a record do or get a job or go to college or figure something else out well wasn't under. her payroll you know we see you had to make sure you get there and then i did have to audition for atlantic i got called in to me with credit counted in my community are going to do i guess and what i had on and everything i had to sing in this little circle and . what was your first my first real hit number my first number one hit was k. hope which song produced by. it was produced by stargate written by john terry austin who was actually a big brother monitor this was on my second album so i was the first two thousand and three my first came out second and also. and i got my first hit so the.

truth is going to be worse. most people do steal one every three years four years was a different time we missed a different time now you know to keep people engaged in especially initially in my career was more so about survival is about separating myself from others it was so many are obese things coming out at the time. to this point being able to say that i have six albums is sounds even weird to me. remember like everything all the preparation i went to the first tour a lot. actually this album was that i came off of a world tour before i did this album for my fifth studio album we went. all over america where all of your we went right amazing places and i was able to just sit back and relax after that album i really realized you know i still don't consider most of the veteran yet because. it's only nine you know i still consider myself

a student again but very seasoned and after five hours of hustle and bustle and trying to separate yourself and make your name known in really perfection craft and after feeling that you've accomplished. enough to breathe and exhale i was able to make this out what are you first a singer yes. and first r. and b. yeah well initially. before in the days we spoke about well i was uncertain of what i would be allowed to rap and sing. i was just as much into both and then i met this guy troy. troy would do is he would give me different c.d.'s at the time of just a list of entertainers from steven wanted to earth one and fired a prince the michael jackson and. frankly he wouldn't tell me who was who was working as a young kid loves rabun you know just raw talent saying. listen i don't know these voices but he's telling me to listen earth wind and fire for vocal arrangement and

backgrounds and harmonies to tell me listen the principal fast said oh he's telling me this in a modern for passion you know solution more. like a music school is web singing i think rap is. is born from r. and b. you know us and i think that's why the melodies within it that's why it is still musical and is. combined so much of a hybrid is making rather have a good voice. tone is important if you think about the the best rappers you think about big you think about to pile get on well jay z. think about even now when a drink you think about how different their voices are told him inflection is something you work with justin bieber yes. this is actually the first time i work with a great deal i think is he hit me out of the blue you know to tell me that he liked the song that i. know which is actually happened to be in the same city and i told

him come to studio and it kind of has had it it was it wasn't planned well did you make of his use of the word i think we all make mistakes. especially as young people i think if i was found on tape saying some things or fifty i would want people to see you know and i think the fact that he's owned up to it and i ran away from him is something that we need to very much encourage you know because people do make mistakes and people do have blemishes but blemishes but to actually don't use them so work and we are make mistakes is the word to use and where you're from time to time. but not in the malicious we really never you know it's. coming up you know in urban environments it's taught to us you see all the older guys using it and it's power was taken out of the word because using endearment you know me language changes i'm told this is the most personal or i believe

as as an adult as a minute. you know maybe six hours twenty nine years old has been in the music business has been a man in my family been in and out of relationships and really found a new understanding of what was happening in my life and the control that i have over it yeah you know single drug there's not a song called true with a laugh till the whole lot of it a whole album. kind of puts it together because i'm. perversely known history songs but to my family i'm sure my son my younger cousins that you know my goddaughter they like to come over and play jump on the couch or jump entrees you know whatever major you want to be fathers and i do how did you pick the name shawn. is interest in the same guy through a. lot and we're really he was. the first six

songs i recorded was sent to me. but. in america time is like on the same night it was no impede three years actually think of back on it and it's songs and it was only six hours out every ocean isolated to me and nobody liked it larry my mom told me i was crazy charlie told me i was crazy everybody hated the name as they would it was was the all that had to differentiate the the thing from you know think it was cool you know basically do you think you love your popularity i know a lot of my section feel do you think a lot of use is really not a definite definitely off the definite i think. you know as there's a difference between. you know where people buy into sexual there were people who buy into musical especially when you have a ninety percent female fanbase. is interested in music game because i remember the

times before i took my shirt off before you know gained a little way before i got my abs right and i used to braze learn of you know that you know it choros a lot of time straight back so why just because i want to braze when i had braids ten years actually from the time i was a sophomore we were sexual mood breed stray in my own world view close to she was really getting hitched no not here just. been committed in a relationship and it. is definitely hard to differentiate sex symbol isn't from real life when you're trying to sell records and trying to have a successful career. and i say that because you know you've seen some stars choose what fans may think the wrong love interest is or give their life to who fans don't approve of and their sales plummet over the image plummets giving women might get you for a reason of course they do from time to time and the more sex symbol or use that

you know we ourselves dream and it's a minute some way shape or form do you like sewer. i do like some of the things about i think everything i was up in it was a double edged sword you know there's times when you want your privacy but you give yourself to the world so proud to see and just. fans are female so what's your relationship with the male community i just speak for me nor you pop that thing in the goodie played a trigger that's. for all the males the ten percent of males that want the ninety percent of females to listen to what they have to say i'll say it for you. what's the secret of your success in relationships is all about my smile it's nothing now he's as if you're saying that i went into. a relationship i don't think it's. a secret formula you know it's a comparison between two people you know trust and love in the basics of work because your image your talent and your image would have to be off the mark that's

why i was say it's here only you know if you choose the wrong girl you know but if my fans love the woman you know that they would have to you know it's crazy because you see some relationships work because they plan to work you know you see people waited out until you find this person is on that same star a lot you know and then the fans can except it. when you are. given a certain portion of your life to people and you sell and it's actually selling essentially selling it romantically for you to then take that portion that you give only to fans a way to give it to one person economy and if they don't approve it might be might be cricket for me larry i'm going to figure it out we'll talk politics and parenting stay with us.

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trey songz did you decide to come up with the reason which is close it's what you felt. like. for myself it's important for me to impact on what people like. to give them almost given that whopping is not only what i

feel as songs and music you know but really things that affect us as a people you know. give you a music to enjoy i give you my thoughts sexually i give myself my thoughts sensually all creatively but some of the people i look up to most you know put their real thoughts on a lot and really had an impact on the culture you know you supported the president most of them has he disappointed you at all i think it's been i think it's been hard from day one since he got in i think he has a disappointed i think. it's such a difficult job you know. it's i remember watching the first inauguration with. grandmother my youngest brother my mother. you know so it's those it's so many it's so many generations wise and i think what it mores eight years for our country is that if you

tell a young man of any color race or creed that he can do anything you can now believe it you know was a day when i wasn't true you know you could tell me i could do anything in the world but i've seen is that you know maybe i'll be the first to do it but until i see someone do it as a child you know as a big thing how has your mother handle all of your success i mean she had this or you only she she mostly married no she's now married. hope one day that she does well the manager of the force right she just actually had a forty seventh birthday. how does he do with your success. my success she's dealt with very well it takes a toll on her you know see where it was a time when you know around because we see it still is not too far from where we come up so a lot of people that want that might be interested in my life and wish to virginia you know as people that are interested in her now that we're interested in her

before i was three songs that caller you know terry's on his mom you know as he hates she has two sons or little brother do for us he's actually out here on the road with me right now. he's in college but for this summer he's here with me taken on a business he's very smart. quoting first with numbers of artists you know he's told me what my biggest hit records would be really interested in me i was the sexes you were maybe the war. is easy young man some may look better to me or schools you go on and. you said you have contact with your birth father i don't i haven't talked to my birth father in. almost four years through four years you didn't draw them your feelings until you got better. i think i may be still a bit

a little bit actually but i think it's more so at this point i want to have a conversation with a real conversation because we've we've spoken over the years but he's never really been through with me as the lot as he has you in my life he's got a son that he's kind of abandoned that has become enormously successful always you know how he does it that there. must be difficult i actually have a stepfather this forest his father that. you're with him no not at not at all either i wasn't very happy with the way. he was enforce his life you know he was my stepfather when i was younger and we counted parted ways but as for us. he wasn't really in his life so you have a male influence in your life it's. true a momentous and. you know. coming go you know as far as.

boyfriends or husbands. a real male figure i've never really. you feel so you didn't go to college. you know there were times when i wanted to go i wanted to go because my friends with i want to go because it felt like that was what i was supposed to be done versus you know when i was trying to make music it was a dream that i didn't know would come to fruition and you got my friends text me about what's going on in college at this school and i school and i'm sleeping on choice couch waking up do a musical and asleep doing music do you ever fear that it might all go away. there is insecurity in show business i used to. i used to worry about i think those were made so much music and that's why. i've devoted so much of my life to making music with any of those ten years. but i think what i what i've found.

within the last couple years is that i want to be happy more so than anything else and if i'm happy i'll make the best music and if. people receive it the way to put my all into it i think i'll be from do you like working in front of a crowd as much as working in the studio. the studio because before like. i record myself like so i could spend hours in the studio alone i don't need an engineer or really like i really i have you my room producer and so many ways whether it be musical want to be vocal production want to be writing a song i can get it all done in this last album i was able to do that more so now that you know like i actually had this little room that i love the vibe of and i would wake up and make music i would go to school you have music. how do you like working with jay z. and fifty cent know these artists. influence him on since i was. a young

man you know so when i got the opportunity to would have to you know work with him is so many different ways it was on a you know on fifty cent the same you know with him being a young man that came and started rap to make so many different moves in the business world and so it just is so how you know rap is an art that has to get there. we have some social media questions for. him use tweets who inspired you to become a singer. singing was something that i always love there wasn't one person really inspired me to listen to a lot of r. kelly i was still a lot it's easy just want to know what motivates you what motivates me is. my family. twitter followers you have. made me how

many i did two million seven you probably have more yeah but what if there's a few more ok one lady kara mel via twitter would you dump a girl if your mother than approved her. wouldn't that couldn't be the sole reason i've actually had a girlfriend and my mother didn't approve of it was a rocky road. i mean she ended up being right but. bradley so was it like working with fifty cent. he's a very. you some of the funniest stories you ever heard the song that i actually do with it he said i recorded my part three years prior to the song coming up i actually recorded it initially for dr jerry's detox we went in i work with. about a week we did probably five or six of these and. also bradley so i want to know is you schober in the studio myself you know drink well i think a lot of artists you know need different head to make certain kind of music i think

when they know you need it you know something a little drink you know me i feel good when i'm making music it's not in a necessity to do anything but i think this led to tweets what do you do with your down time. when do i have that when i do things like that i love the ball really play basketball you ball that's a blue collar sport i love both. st louis wants to know what your least favorite song is some of these things are going to say it's good but they don't see it because they have to sing a but they don't want to sing it i mean i love them all my head's i love. one one that i probably have performed more than any other one is probably say our song up is a birthday song so it will never get old you know so i try to make new ways to do it because. we've finished the show with a game called if you only knew the first version you ever kissed first person i

have a case of get a name for shoes from there was you know the how the facts three and i went to the recreation center across the street and. it was it was all called the kissing game our member and we kissed well as long as player like direct relations and how we. we were going at it since. it's a guilty pleasure the guilty pleasure. nothing is off and so they go with you but i'll buy them off and even that i would have but i file them to. get a little i got no good managers just by just by them but you buy them cream and claim filed well it's probably not good for my teeth who's your dream collaboration my dream collaboration be us a secret talent you have a talent nobody knows secret talent that you are good bull i'm agreeable i'm

agreeable i'm sorry but i just i want to new career if you can if you could have a superpower what would be if i could have a superpower what would it be i would. really starts with. i would be invisible he would be invisible all of this would be for. if you could be anonymous for a day what would you do. out of my heart. if you were anonymous where would you what would you do have been with larry you know what i was. going to record with you other make your next record a hit you do own ebony and ivory i like it when we write a song together. to go. keep one of. trigger trigger trigger. promotions. they would place you live you live the way really i think price i've been saying. i just moved out

and like i just got a new house that's just yesterday so i just haven't been able to really feel that big house in your place so for me to becomes known i got my brother with me. here for the summer goes back to school but i got my brother with me for now i've got my guy with stays with me all the time and i got my sister you know valet not to have us. and women have been there will be at this house i would like the women occasion is there a woman is going to break in this house i hope. i don't mean to. break from these break in no matter where you put it. i came. to me because it's from. my mom or my ex-girlfriend best piece of advice she ever got. as i said madge and troy gave it to you.

gave me some great advice but the best advice really got was to. well god has this for you like the patient and that's a worry about. the things that others have or that they receive you know not to worry about and you know especially with the music is it's easy to look at people and believe that they're your competition but you can only control yourself and be is you know you can only be sure about you. great man so should i. thank you i guess trey songz to go he's available july for sure but you can find me on twitter with kings things to see him next time. i know c.n.n. the m s m b c news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their

commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close and for the truth and might think. it's because one full attention in the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on here. coming up. at our teen years we have a different brain. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not how. you guys talk to the jokes i will hand over the stuff that i've got. i'm.