“People Put Out Albums, I’m Putting Out Personalities” Musiq/ The Husel Endures Brutal Breakfast Club Interview

Envy: You sound a little crazy, I’m not going to lie. You’re an artist and I thought you’re projecting your art form, what you truly love. But it sounds like you’re saying people don’t really love this, they love that so let me jump over here and do that. You’re chasing a check.

M: Like people up out albums, I put out personalities. Because I bet if you find anybody and get their attention, and be like ‘What’s on your playlist?’ I bet you it’s not going to be one genre of music. So why is it ok for people to have a diverse playlist but it’s not ok for an artist to make diverse music?

C: I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. I want it to be believable.

M: It doesn’t matter what you believe because it’s me as an artist doing it. I’m not always going to be perfect the first time out. Y’all are witnessing something unprecedented…

This is totally in my heart and totally in my soul. Being an artist, you’re influenced by your surroundings and your atmosphere, you soak it up and then eventually, you want to give it back…

…Those first three joints that y’all got, those are freestyles.

C: Musiq, Angela Yee was actually playing some of those records this morning. They not hot, dog.

M: Ok.

C: I don’t want to hear that from Musiq. If you were making records as good as that or better then I’d be like ‘do your thing.’

M: Well then let me get there.

C: Eehhh. I might not want to hear you get there. 

M: Then it’s not for you then.

C: I don’t think it is dog. I don’t think it’s for you either. 

M: It might not be for me.

C: And I don’t want you to feel like you weren’t appreciated as Musiq Soulchild so let me go do this.

M: That’s not solely what I’m doing this. That was just an observation that I made when people started attacking me. So I’m like, where was y’all first week when I put that album out.

I’m not stopping Musiq Soulchild. I’m actually working on a new Musiq Soulchild album…I’m not mad. I’ve never been mad. They’re the ones that are mad.

C: I just want the music to be of the quality of Musiq Soulchild. At the end of the day, that’s all that matters. If the music is great you can come out here butt naked. Prince used to come out with no pants, he had his ass out. But being that the music was so great, nobody cared. R Kelly peed on a little girl and made people “Step in the Name of Love.”

M: I’m working on it. They’re not all going to be winners.

And then Charlemagne took it entirely too far.

C: Somebody said your good eye is Musiq Soulchild and the bad eye is The Husel

M: You feel good about that one?

C: That’s what somebody said.

M: Yeah, you said it.

C: I’m sorry….busts out laughing.

Listen, Charlemagne often does the absolute most. And he shouldn’t have made the eye comment. But I appreciate this interview as a whole. He’s said what we all wanted to. This is a bit of mess. And even Envy let him know the real, he does sound a little off balance. But you know, people have to do what works for them. I just can’t rock with it.

You can watch the full interview below.