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GANGSTASPARTY.com: 1) Beginning your career
TREY SONGZ: I was more so into hip hop than r&b in the beginning of my career. I still listen to a lot of rap today but as far as the beginning of my career goes, I never really took singing seriously it was something I did in my leisure or just to joke around with. I started singing in talent shows and things of the sort and people started to take interest in me but that still was local love to me (which means friends and family gon always say you good). Singing professionally became more of a reality when I met Troy. I sang for him and he told me "whatever it is you got it" from then on I went into Troy Taylor "R&B school" where he'd have me study the vets in the game and work nonstop at what I wanted so I could continuously better myself.
GANGSTASPARTY.com: 2) Is there a singer that inspired u?
TREY SONGZ: Indirectly there are a lot of singers that inspired me. My producer Troy Taylor would have me listen to cd's with a wide array of songs on em. He wouldn't give me the names but later he'd tell me who they were (the likes of The Isley Brothers, Prince, Marvin Gaye etc.), He'd have me study the songs from the tone, to the passion, to the charisma these legends had. And of course R.Kelly's a major influence.
GANGSTASPARTY.com: 3) Where do you get your inspiration from?
TREY SONGZ: Inspiration for me comes from everyday life. Whether it be an experience of my own, something I've witnessed, someone I know go through or whatever. Everything is a song for me! We can walk through a day together where you'll see things one way and I'll have a million song concepts.
GANGSTASPARTY.com: 4) What do u feel to say about your producer and mentor Troy Taylor?
TREY SONGZ: Troy is the reason I'm here. Troy, as well as his wife Adisha, did everything from give me a place to sleep, to feed me. He's my family, he went to lengths he didn't have to for me. I love him like a brother. He's taught me way more than music thats only the tool that brought him into my life but Troy and his families prayers do things for me that I'll never know. Thats my nigga.
GANGSTASPARTY.com: 5) Tell us something about your hit entitled "Gotta Make It" ... and the collaboration with Twista
TREY SONGZ: "Gotta Make It" speaks about the struggle. Lyrically its a love song from a man to his woman but it's really a song that anybody trying to do something with themselves can relate to. I've had woman and men both tell me that they've cried when listening to that song. One thing about the whole Trey Songz movement I wanna make clear is that I'm for the real people out there. I'm from Petersburg, VA; economically depressed and poverty minded, I know what the hood is. I love the hood cause that's what I know, the single "Gotta Make It" as well as the album I GOTTA MAKE IT is to let people know that I'm from where they're from and I'm living a dream. If you believe you can do whateva. Twista on the other hand is my homie. I met him almost two years ago at his album listening party and we talked for a good twenty minutes. A year later the song was cut I called him he laid it down and that was that.
GANGSTASPARTY.com: 6) Tell us something about your debut album and when will this album come out?
TREY SONGZ: I worked very hard to get this album together. I'm proud of it and I think its a great representation of who I want to be musically. You can listen to it from top to bottom. Production from people like Troy Taylor, Scott Storch, Organized Noise, Warryn Campbell, BeiMaejor (SONGBOOK), BeatBanggahz and some others. Shit hot! I promise you that - JULY 26TH, I GOTTA MAKE IT
GANGSTASPARTY.com: 7) Are u also attacking the mixtape circuit?
TREY SONGZ: Yes I love the mixtape circuit it give me another way to show niggaz that aint nobody fuckin' wit me and anybody who has heard what I do on mixtapes knows ain't nobody fuckin' wit me. That's me on my cocky shit. When I'm doin my thang on these mixtapes you really get the real me. Not saying that what I put on a album is not me cause there's different sides to every person. I'm just sayin that what you hear on mixtapes is the type of shit I was on before R&B but now that I am I make sure that I put a R&B twist on it so it doesn't confuse the listener too much.
GANGSTASPARTY.com: 8) Is there a rapper that would u like to work with?
TREY SONGZ:Jay-Z
GANGSTASPARTY.com: 9) Tell us something about your future projects...Do u have planned a tour?
TREY SONGZ: I have two songz on Juvenile's next album, one on Twista's, Jim Jones' and I just shot the video for our collab on his album, one song on Paul Wall's debut, one on Trina, two on Obie Trice's, one on Bump J's, two on Eboni Eyes' album
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