In the article Trey talks about being in tht=e industry, staying relevant, changing is style, and destiny. I believe Trey is a wonderful artist...(VA all day)...I also think he is a handsome young man(just my opinion)....
Trey keep doing you......
Clips from the article after the break.....
Five years ago, a newly signed Trey Songz couldn't afford to hire a traveling barber to braid his hair. Instead, he had to resort to locals to keep up his tresses -- a circumstance he wasn't exactly pleased with.
"I couldn't maintain one person to do it all the time," Songz recalls. "I had to find people around town and most of the time I wouldn't even like them."
Today, not only is his long hair gone, but Songz' budget allows for a groomer and a personal stylist to hit the road with him, among other perks. This is in large part due to his sexually charged 2009 album, "Ready," which has sold 778,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan; spawned five hit singles; and drew favorable comparisons to the past decade's two most enduring and influential R&B stars, Usher and R. Kelly.
Now, with the release of new album "Passion, Pain and Pleasure," due Sept. 14 on Songbook/Atlantic Records, the 25-year-old Songz has positioned himself to not only make a run for the crown of King of R&B, but to enjoy the sort of crossover success that consistently and frustratingly eludes so many male R&B singers.
Lyor Cohen, Warner Music Group vice chairman and chairman/CEO of recorded music for the Americas and the United Kingdom, "would call and say, 'Do you want a rapper or an R&B singer? Tell him to cut his fucking braids off!' " Atlantic executive VP/head of urban music Mike Kyser recalls with a laugh. "We never told him to cut them off, it just so happened that Trey reached that point on his own."
Songz' R&B peers were also going through some rough career patches at the time. Both Chris Brown and Usher were facing sticky personal issues -- a domestic violence charge and a public divorce, respectively -- that translated into declining album sales and a decrease in their popularity, leaving an opening for Songz to step in and take the lead.
"There was a lot of traffic in the highway when I first came in. There were a lot of cars on the road, and if I would've stepped in then, I might've caused an accident," Songz says about the competition. "Everyone has their time -- it just wasn't my time with the first few albums. It's just a testament to believing in yourself and never giving up, working hard and knowing what you want. The fact that I had the lane to myself for a while definitely plays a major part in where I am now."
http://www.billboard.com/#/features/trey-songz-the-billboard-cover-story-1004108029.story?page=1
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