![]() I think you get into these age pockets where you create, and I’m in an age pocket where I can have that album. Are you still growing as an artist? Every day. ![]() Even if you might catch me in a cipher, I’m just playing. The guys that I look up to-Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder-were always in touch with an emotion that is familiar to every man: the emotion of love for a woman. But rapping kind of became a fad among singers and took away from why we’re special. I actually started out as a rapper, and rap has been a big influence on what I do in some of the cadences. When R&B singers hang around rappers, they tend to develop a rap aesthetic and often end up rapping themselves. Coming from B2K, I understand the importance of camaraderie. Literally two weeks later, it was a done deal.ĭoes being a part of a camp change the way you approach music? I’m inspired to be more tedious and take my time. I was just like, well, what’s winning right now? What was winning was the Young Moneys, the Maybach Musics-the camps. He was like, I’m a big fan of what you’ve done and I’ve been watching you we need to do this. He said, Before you do that, let’s have a conversation. I told him, I’m bout to sign this deal and I would love to do a record with you. How was it that you fell in with another band of rappers at Maybach Music? I ended up going to a strip club with friends and somebody was like, Rozay is here. A woman inspiring you to act differently and feel differently-it’s similar to a drug. We’re playing around with the new album title-we’ll probably change it, cause there’s a movie with the same name-but the core idea is Love and Other Drugs: the infatuation, the euphoric feeling of liking someone. But it’s different when you’re really living out your lyrics. Back in the day it was like, I got a great record from a great producer and writer and it’s a hit single, so let’s sing it. Where are you now, musically? If B2K was eighth grade and after B2K was freshman year, now I’ve graduated from high school and I’m in real life. The singer, though, has never had a problem finding work, be it as a sturdy hook man for likeminded rappers or a purveyor of gritty, slow-burning love songs like 2012’s “MIA.” Currently preparing his first album in three years, the flagship R&B singer of one of the most respected brands in rap talks to us about how despite all the success he’s seen, the best is yet to come. It was an especially bold move for someone who two years prior had aligned with another rap crew, Young Money-a partnership that ended before any music was released. Former B2K frontman and teeny bopper heartthrob Omarion was only signed to Maybach Music for a matter of weeks before he had the words “Maybach O” tattooed onto his hand last summer.
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