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“I never really wanted to be a ‘music industry standard official recording artist’, but I knew I wanted to have a career in music in one way or another. It really contributed to a particular perspective on things, so when I got into the business I knew a lot about what it was like to not have, so when I did get, it was pretty interesting making that adjustment.â€, he clarifies. “Coming from where I came from, I had to fend for myself and all of that. Musiq has had his share of it, accrediting his time spent homeless after leaving his mother’s house between the ages of 17 and 23 as a “tremendous†influence on his drive to gain a recording contract in 2000. One characteristic of quality soul music has always been its affiliation with pain be it a direct outpouring of pain or a passionate evocation fuelled by past or present times of pain. Ne-Yo and I are pretty much inspired by a lot of the same qualities of music – good song writing and good vocal production.†I switched some things around to tailor fit it for myself but that’s what that was all about. “That’s actually where the idea came from,†Musiq elucidates, “but for sampling purposes we couldn’t clear it so we had to re-route it a little bit. Close scrutiny of the album’s production credits reveal Def Jam singer Ne-Yo to have written ‘Ms.Philadelphia’, a song written around an altered version of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Overjoyed’. “I didn’t wanna take for granted my position in the industry so I wanted to just reintroduce myself to people, let them know who I am and what I’m about, then hopefully with this album I can use it as a vantage point to do a lot of collaborations where it’s not me leaning on the artist, it’s more we’re working together to contribute to a better situationâ€. Such collaborations are notably absent on the album, a strategy which Musiq explains is to cement his individual reputation rather that rely on the appeal of other artists to flourish. The move has so far proved successful with his new album’s US chart status repeating the chart success of his platinum second album ('Juslisen'), and the epidemic of ‘Buddy’ remixes popping up from rappers including Young Buck, T.I., Freeway, Ja Rule, Fat Joe Jadakiss, and Lupe Fiasco – which amounts to at least 8 different versions - contributing to his appeal. It sounded good to me, and he made it happenâ€. “He asked me, how would I feel about him being immediately involved in my career as he was when I was over at Def Jam. The new album, Musiq’s first release through Atlantic Records, highlights several changes for the 29-year old singer, who (according to him) left Def Soul Records after former Def Jam president Kevin Lyle moved to the Warner Music group and bumped into Musiq. I make (my lyrics) very simple to show that you don’t have to get deep and heavy to express a realistic point, you just gotta talk about it.†Hopefully, expressing what I know may have a positive effect on people. "I just hope and pray that people take a more realistic approach in expressing themselves through music because that actually has a lot to do with people’s perception of what relationships are. I think that it’s important that the two people that are in the relationship identify what it is between each other and agree to what it is, as opposed to one person thinking that it’s one way and the other person is in the dark,†he explains.
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The album, a collection of songs touching on mature experiences of life and love, covers topics of self-improvement and struggles with emotional vulnerability in relationships, whilst the lead single ‘Buddy’ tackles a need for honest definitions of relationships: “There are implications and attachments that have been put on the idea of relationships, and I think a lot of people get caught up in those things. Men and women alike appreciate Musiq’s honest reflections in what he describes as a realistic approach to “things that happen every day†a tried and tested formula that continues to work as his fourth album, 'Luvanmusiq', swoops into the top position of the US charts. The comprehensible simplicity of his lyrical phrasing is his trademark feature, and since the release of his debut album 'Aijuswanaseing' in late 2000, the expressive and down-to-earth soul star has widely appealed to the repressed emotions of young men - many of whom didn’t formerly listen to soul. Musiq Soulchild, born Talib Johnson, entered the airwaves as an accessible gateway between modern RnB and the more soulful end of the scale - much like fellow Philadelphia soul artist Dwele.