Source: The Breakfast Club
Trey Songz stopped by “The Breakfast Club” yesterday to chit chat with Charlemagne, DJ Envy and Angela Yee about the success he’s been enjoying from theTrigga Reloaded album, wanting kids, Chris Brown and some of the drama that comes along with being such a sex symbol.
Check out some of the excerpts from the interview below and then watch the full thing on the next page.
On touring with his friend Chris Brown
Charlemagne: Do you ever have conversations with Chris Brown like ‘You f**kin’ up the money bro?”
I mean I’ve had many conversations with him about the money, about his personal well being all that. But what Chris got going on with Chris, Chris got to figure out. No matter who talks to him. And I think it’s beautiful that’s he’s just being a father in his daughter’s life right now. It’s dope. I pray for Chris. I pray for all my friends. I think he’s under a lot of scrutiny. And it’s very hard. The difference between me and Chris, I tell people all the time, is Chris was 15 when we started. I was 20. It was different. Chris went straight up the pop charts. It took me a cool four years to see the amount of sex–success he had initially.
Charlemagne: You said amount of sex. *Cackles*
That’s cliche. I was trying to say success. Yeah, Chris was having so much sex. Yeah… so you know for me, I was already a man perse when this happened and the slower escalation of success. It got me a chance to actually wrap my mind around what it is. But when you actually become a person and figuring out who you are in front of people, and then you have something crazy happen in your life. People build you all the way up to try to tear you down.
On being blamed for Stephanie Moseley’s death.
Everyone knows that Trey’s nickname is “Mr. Steal Your Girl.” Late last year, the moniker led to questions and speculations about him being involved in the death of “Hit The Floor” dancer Stephanie Moseley.
See what he had to say about that incident:
I actually was really in a crazy place in my mind at that time. Because to place somebody’s death on somebody else, without knowing the dealings. Just based off speculation and wanting website hits and wanting this generation to get this…that’s sad. That’s real sad. You don’t know what spirits you playing with. And I won’t go into the depth of the situation because I respect the woman we’re talking about. I respect her family and I don’t want to talk negatively about anything in the situation. But it’s a sad story. Did anybody lose their life because of me? No. Point, blank period.
On wanting to have children
Charlemagne: Have you caught the Daddy Bug yet?
Man I want kids. I’ve been wanting children before you could even imagine. I raised all the kids in my family. My younger brother, he’s 20-years-old, he just had his first child. I remember when he was a child. I used to burp him change his diapers, now he got a baby, so…
Charlemagne: Just take the condom off
Naw. I don’t think it’s that simple for me. You just want to take the condom off, that sounds a little crazy. It’s more to it than that, I would like to believe. No, but I want kids, I want a family all of that. But I’m not in a rush to do it because people think that’s what should be happening in my life or that I need kids or my momma been begging me for a grand baby or any of that, I just want to make sure that it’s the right decision.
Charlemagne: That’s important you say that because a lot of girls think that only happens to them, like as they get older people are like ‘You gotta have a baby now!’ ‘You gotta have a family.’ No, guys get that too!
No everybody. My whole family. Every time I come home. Now, I got a nephew, they want me to have a baby like six months from now.
Angela: But I’m sure they’re very concerned about who you have a baby with.
Naw, actually they not too much, at this point.
I just was actually talking about it earlier with my friend. I remember a couple years ago, I had to go take a couple of tests. I actually didn’t know these people who were claiming that I had children. This is the type of stuff that I keep out of the media. It was a couple of accusations. Throughout my career, it’s happened a few times. I remember my momma went with me. And I was like ‘Momma, it’s cool. I don’t know this girl.’ She was like ‘But, if it is yours, we gotta see it for the blessing it is. And it’s going to be…’ No! I don’t know who this person is.
See what he said about the special woman in his life and monogamy on the next page.
Why he won’t call the special woman in his life his girlfriend
Angela Yee: I thought you did have a girlfriend
I don’t have a girlfriend.
Angela Yee: But somebody that you consider special in your life.
Oh yeah, definitely. The only reason we’re not…or one of the reasons that we’re not is because of what you’re saying. (Internet thugs). It takes a lot for people to deal with that. I know what it’s like to be scrutinized or talked crazy to all day online. But when you take a picture with somebody and they draw their own conclusions and make life a living hell for a person, it just kind of deters them away from what the real thing was. I think when you’re trying to build with somebody, trying to actually become something special, you got to kind of have to figure out what it really is between the two of you before you share it with the world. And it’s kind of hard when people take pictures anywhere you go. And people want to be appreciated. People want it to be known that they’re loved and be shown. It’s complicated but I’m trying to figure it out.
Does he believe in monogamy for himself?
I think I gotta step back a few steps from this world. This lifestyle is not one of regular proportions. Everything is extreme. It gotta be a point where I’m ready to separate truly what Trey Songz is and who I am as a person and ready to figure out the line between that and my life and the balance of that. And I’ve been doing this for a long time and that balance is very hard to find.
Like honestly, when you go somewhere and all eyes on you and women–like men treat a sexy girls, that’s how girls see me. I’m like meat. Once you get past that infatuation phase, you got to really figure out what’s what. And if you go all over and anything is accessible, it takes a whole ‘nother type of self discipline to really–that’s even without a girl. What am I going to do? You’re going to be here to do whatever I want you to do and then you’re going to leave. I don’t have to give no commitment to you. I can just get this stress up off me and get back to my day tomorrow.
Well, at least he’s honest.
Check out Trey’s full interview in the video below.
