sales plummeted in his plans even women might get you for the only reason of course they do. and that was said so will their use that it plus you were just in beaver yes what did you make of his use of the word i think we all make mistakes but he's owned up to it and i 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 actor and international sex symbol center two six that will see at the same time jewish. trace six studio album triggs is out july first is it true as a kid you didn't think did pursue music is

a new little farfetched coming from where i'm from school in that i haven't seen many people achieve much outside of. graduating from high school at least in my early age you know. the highs employer in my hometown was wal-mart we have to wal-mart's within probably a ten minute radius says a lot about that you know so hard workers but nobody really expected numbers outside of the bubble. a lot of struggle a lot of a young mother you know mother was seventeen when she had and still in high 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. know it's like i actually wanted to strong as prison because the smile is so bright but speaking to her later on in life you know she was just going through so much at that time what was it like being raised was 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 member. laid on having to catch the bus on my mom by myself excuse me you know she would catch another burst of like a city bus because then everybody else caught the school bus but as you had to walk means it is that it was 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. all the story now this is just. you shine with allegro because when you were a teenager right now how did you how did that happen. at the age of fifteen i was privileged enough to meet somebody that could make something like that happen. my mentor a producer met through my mother's ex-husband sujoy edition for not living edition for troy first 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 and has school as seventeen i was given a year by my mother to either get a record do or get a job will go to college or figure something else out well i wasn't under. her payroll you know we see had to make sure 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 and i had to sing in this little circle of . 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 my first two thousand and three my first one came out second in zero seven and i got my first hit so the

. truth is going to be worse still most people do steal one every three years four years it was a different type just a different time now you know to keep people engaged in especially initially in my career was more so about survival those about separating myself from others it was so many are obese things coming out at the time. in 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 what. actually this album was that i came off of for a world tour before i did this album. my fifth studio album we went. all over america well our love. with amazing places and i was able to just sit back and relax after that album and really realize that you know i still don't consider most of the veteran yet because. it's only now 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 do you first yes. and first 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. were true would do is he would give me different c.d.'s at the time of just a list of and it's heinous from stevie wonder to earth one and fired a prince the michael jackson in. the frankly he wouldn't tell me who was who was worth more 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 and tell me listen the principal fasano is telling me this in a modern for passion you know so much more. like a music school is website i mean i think rap is. his board for r. and b. . you know as in i think that's why he melodies within it that's why it is still musical and is. combined so much of a hybrid it is making rather have a good voice the. tone is important if you think about the the best rappers you think about big you think about tupac you think about 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 him. i think is he hit me out of the blue you know to tell me that he liked

the song that i. recall you know which is actually happened to be in the same city and i told him come a 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 are 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 work they're saying we are made mistakes is the word to use and where you have from time to time. but not in the malicious way really never you know it's. coming up you know in urban environments it's it's taught to us you see all the old guys using it and its power is taken out of the word because it's using endearment you

know me language changes i'm told this is the most personal or i believe you as an adult as a min. you know maybe six hour and 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 i was single drug there's not a song called true because i feel the whole lot of it a whole album. kind of puts it together because i'm professionally known as trey songz but to my family i'm from my so my younger cousins that you know my god daughter likes to come over and play jump on the couch or jump on stories you know whatever major you want to be fathers and i do how did you pick the name shawn. is interested in the same god sure as i like to bring him really he was.

the first six songs i recorded was sent to me. but. in america the time is like on the same night it is now in feet three. actually think of back on it and trace 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 trying to tell me i was crazy everybody hated the name but that. was brazilian that had to differentiate the thing from you know think it was cool you know basically do you think a lot of your popularity i know a lot of my section feel do you think a lot of yours is really no i definitely definitely of that definitely i think. you know and there's there's a difference between. you know what people would buy into sexual there were people would buy into musical especially when you have

a ninety percent female fanbase. is interested in music again 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 the core was a all the 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 such symbol with bridge street in my own world view close to she was really getting hitched no not here just. being committed in a relationship and it. is definitely hard to differentiate sex symbol as i'm 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 they're wrong love interest is all give their life to who fans don't approve of and their sales plummet other image planets giving women might get you for whom reason of course they do from time to time and the more sex symbol or

use that it you know we ourselves dream and it's a minute some way shape or form do you live somewhere. really i do like some of the things about i think everything is open and it's a double edged sword you know there's times when you want your privacy but you give yourself to the world so how can you with the actual privacy and just your fans are female so what's your relationship with the male community i just speak for me you know you pop that thing in the goodie plated 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 say for you. what's the secret of your success in relationships is all about my smile it's nothing now just. that i want to really see 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 wouldn't hurt you to be off the mark that's a lousy if you're 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 live you know and then the fans can accept 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 out something that will talk politics and parenting stay with us.

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songs did you decide to go with me for the reason or just go see it was. like. for myself it's important for me to impact on what people like. to give them almost said 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 i give myself my blood sensually all creatively. some of the people i look up to most you know put their real thoughts on the law and really had an impact on the culture you know use aboard the bros and most of them as he disappointed you go i think it's been i think it's been hard from day one since he got it and i think he has it ever disappointed me i think. it's such a difficult job you know i want to write. i remember

watching the first inauguration with. my grandmother my youngest brother my mother you know as well as those it's all me that so many generations was and i think what it more these 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 there was a day when i wasn't true you know you could tell me i could do anything in the world but i have 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 does your mother handle all of your success i mean she had this or you only she remarried no she's now married. hope one day that she does well on a manager the force right she just actually had a forty seven. hours you 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 as we see it still is not too far from where we come up so a lot of people that one might be interested in my life a boyish still virginia you know those people that are interested in her now that we're interested in her before i was for a song that caller you know terry's on his mom you know i see hate that she has two sons or little brother do foresty is actually on a roll with me right now. he's in college but for this this summer he's here with me just taken on a business he's very smart member. quoting first week numbers of artists you know he's told me were my biggest hit records would be really interested in the opposite sex is you are maybe war. is easy young man some may look better to me or schools you go on a plane and. so you. know you said you

have contact with your birth father i don't i haven't talked to my birth father in . almost four years do if you do draw them your feelings i don't think. i think i may be still 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 world 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 they're. in must be difficult to actually have a stepfather this force of his father. being with him you know not it not at all either i wasn't very happy with the way. he was and for his life you know he

was my stepfather when i was younger and we kind of 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. commingle 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 would want to go because it felt like that was what i was supposed to be done very says 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 was going on in college at this school and i school and i'm sleeping on choice couch waking up do a musical and sleep doing music ever fear that it might all go away. there is

insecurity in showbusiness i used to. i used to worry about that i think as well made so much music and that's why. i've devoted so much of my life to making music with the knees i was ten years but i think what i would have 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 that i put my all into it i think i'll be for 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 own producer in 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 all these artists. and flew them on since i was. a young man you know so when i got the opportunity to would have to you know work with him and so many different ways it was on you know fifty cent the same you know with him being a young man 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 their roots 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 was one person who really

inspired me to listen to a lot of r. kelly i was through a lot it's easy just want to know what motivates you what motivates me is. my family i mean twitter follows you have. you made me how many i did two million seven you probably have more. money if there's a few more ok one lady cara mel via twitter would you drop 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 instagram was it like working with fifty cent. he's a very. you some of the funniest stories you have 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 with probably five or six on these and. also bradley so i want to know is are you schober in the studio i'm a southerner studio you know like a dream don't you know i think a lot of artists you know need different heads to make certain kind of music i think 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 that 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 it's like this here i love the ball really play basketball you ball it's blue collar sport i love both. st louis wants to know what your least favorite song is some of these things saunders it's good but they don't what they see 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. as a song up is a birthday song so it will never get old you know so i try to make new ways to do it. and i will finish 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 suze from there was you know the how the fax tree and i went to the recreation center across the street and. it was all called the kissing game of our member and we can well as long as player right at the recreation center. we were going at it since. it's a guilty pleasure a guilty pleasure by my fingernails often so they go for you but i'll buy them off and even that i will have but i file them through. doesn't look like i buy them no good managers just buy just buy them but you buy them cream i don't claim

fallibility for not good for my teeth who should dream collaboration my dream collaboration be all set secret talent you have a talent nobody knows secrets how the value of the dollar 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 will be if i could have a superpower what would it be i would. i would be invisible he would be invisible all of this would be fun. if you could be anonymous for a day what would you do. get out of the hut. if you were anonymous where would you what would you do have let me say larry you know what i was. going to record with you under a make your next record a hit you do own seventy and i like it when we write assume you do together all you

have. to go through that. trigger trigger trigger you promotions. they will place you live you lose the favor. i think a price i've been saying. just moved out it like i just got a new house that was just yesterday so i just haven't been able to really fill it out yet big house. you play so for me the big guns no no i got my brother with me. for the summer he goes back to school i got my brother with me for now i got my guy with me to stays with me all the time and i got my sister you know a valet not to have the house. 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 breakin no matter where you put it. i came very close to me because it's from. my mom or my ex-girlfriend best piece of advice she ever got. advice magine troy gave it to. me some great advice but the best advice i really got was to. well god has is 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 when you know especially with the music as it's easy to look at people and believe that they are your competition but you can only control yourself and be as if you can only be sure about you. a great man to do this so to go should i just want to call the thank you i guess trey songz trigger is available july fourth your mother you can find me on twitter with kinsley's to see him next time.

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