The Breakfast Club - Trey Songz x Breakfast
Episode Date: June 29, 2015Trey Songz stops through to discuss his tour with Chris Brown, Slow Motion becoming the 4th 1 single of his current album, crazy things his fans have done and much more with The Breakfast Club. Learn... more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Morning, everybody.
It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.
We are The Breakfast Club.
Special guest in the building this morning.
Mr. Steal Your Girl.
Trey Songz.
What's up?
One second, one second.
You're in here early working on Angel.
I'm working early.
Early.
Angel just took my glasses.
They look good on her.
You like them?
I like them.
You want them?
Oh, wow.
Yeah, I want them.
Now, how often does that work, Trey? You give a girl your shades, tell her she look good in them, and ask if she want them. You want them? Oh, wow. Yeah, I want them. Now, how often does that work, Trey?
You give a girl your shades, tell her she look good in them,
and ask if she want them?
You want them?
No, I really like my shades.
Forget the girl.
I really like my shades.
You know, give them away, generally.
But they look good on you.
Now, I haven't seen you in a while, man.
You out here doing all kinds of stuff.
Pedaling booze and...
Pedaling booze?
That's how it is.
Why'd you make it sound like that? Damn. You expanded the empire. Pedaling booze and peddling booze. Why'd you make it sound like that?
Damn.
You expanded the empire.
You took it to the 20s.
I'm out here peddling booze.
Prohibition.
We appreciate you.
Prohibition, getting the cases across the water.
The SX right there.
Yeah, believe that.
Now, I was reading about you and Forbes and your SX deal
and how much you increased the amount of cases that they sold once you signed on with Essex right so that's
good for you I guess you figure you have a bit of a stake in this now so most
definitely I'm an owner partner and like the brand's been around for seven years
so just my involvement in this this year alone is like increased it way further than projections were.
And it's just smart, and I really love it.
Right.
In actuality, for me,
because I say I bottoms up two reasons.
Like drinking anthems, I make those all day.
So when the opportunity came along
to coincide with the brand, it just made sense.
And if you look at the
bottle, you see what's happening right there. It's actually
a woman's body.
Really? Yeah, like if Angie stood up and
crossed her legs like so.
Angie ain't got no curves like that.
Well, you know.
But that is actually Charlamagne's color
of his skin.
I'm more the Negro.
Hand me that one.
That's me right there. Hand me that one.
That's me right there.
I'm the Negro.
That's the cafe.
You know where that
Negro's right there.
You know where
that's at.
You're more clear.
Hell no, you ain't
that far.
That ain't this,
Calypso.
No, you're not Calypso.
Lemon and mint.
Right.
The Negro used to be that.
I cleaned it up a little bit go see a dermatologist
scrape the toast off a little bit
why do you have a drink
called Negro
it's called Negro actually
it's actually
Spanish for black
same difference
it's just ignorant
to think that I did that
I made a drink for my people Oh, it's just ignorant of you to think that I did that.
I made a drink for my people.
I went straight in.
I wrote Negro and white.
Exactly.
Now, before you walked in, Charlamagne was disappointed.
He said, Trey's been staying out of the headlines a lot lately.
What's going on with this guy?
What can we make up about Trey Songz?
I mean, I'm in the headlines for music, you know, for the most part.
That's what I do.
That's my profession. I think it's been a good 10 years for me trying to stay out, you know, out of the way of negativity.
I think I got a lot of my negativity in a lot of crazy videos and people, you know,
before the phenomenon of Instagram and all of that came along, you know, like when I had braids.
Yeah.
Now should we just actually saw you perform at the big show at the Joe in Detroit.
Great job there.
I feel like we were with Trey a lot last year, too, doing all this.
Yeah, y'all was with me so much last year.
We didn't talk this year.
It's weird.
Yeah.
Because y'all was at the show, too, right?
Yep.
Do you ever get home? Nah, actually. I went home for the first time with my L. weird. Yeah. Because y'all was at the show too, right? Yep. Do you ever get home?
Nah, actually.
I went home for the first time with my LA house,
which is actually like...
I don't know.
No, it's like my main house.
So I haven't been there.
I've been there twice this year.
Damn.
A total of probably eight days.
Well, that's good.
I mean, you got to pay for the house.
So at least you working.
Right.
Nah, I'm definitely working.
Like the album, Trigger Reloaded, you know, it's right here.
Tremaine album coming soon as well. Went on tour with CB, went on tour with Nicki, been to Africa.
I did all the birthday, not birthday, excuse me, grad batch dates for Orlando and Universal.
That's something we've been doing for a while. Essence Fest coming up, you know, SX is popping off, the alcohol brand. So it's just all about, you know,
working hard and expanding the brand.
And you just got the news that Slow Motion's number one?
Yeah, just right now I got that news.
That's awesome.
Congrats, you beat out Rihanna, right?
Yeah, that's the fourth number one off Trigger,
so thank y'all so much for the love.
That's incredible, you're making this album.
How was the tour with Chris Brown?
Stretching it out. out oh it was it
was dope you know we had we had a couple things uh you know unplanned for a couple cancellations
uh and like push back but all all together if you look at the entirety of what it was
the amount of money we gross net uh you look at the fans experience and uh how we were able to
like get through it without any
complications we still friends you know because touring and money and all of that can't get in
the way of friendships and uh business and and blood kind of don't mix sometimes but it was a
blessing we was able to get through that and still be successful still be friends and you know the
possibility is actually there even for more to happen again because it was a fruitful you know thing as a friend do you ever have to tell him like chris you're fucking up the
money bro like come on i mean i've had many conversations with him about you know the money
about you know his personal well-being all that but you know what chris got going on with chris
chris got to figure out you know no matter who talked to him all that and i think it's beautiful
man that he just being a father in his daughter's life right now.
He calmed him down a lot.
Yeah, it's dope.
I pray for Chris.
I pray for all my friends.
And I think he under a lot of scrutiny, and it's very hard.
The difference between me and Chris, I tell people all the time,
Chris was 15 when we started.
I was 20.
So it was different.
And Chris went straight up the pop charts.
It took me a cool
four years to even
see an amount
of success he had initially.
You said amount of sex. Yeah, you did say amount of sex.
That's cliche.
I was trying to say success.
I guess guess you know
it took me four years
to get the amount of sex
Chris was having
I just
yeah Chris was having
so much sex
no so you know
for me
I was already
you know
a man per se
you know when this happened
and the slower escalation
of success
you know it got me
the chance to wrap my mind
around what it is
you know but when you you actually becoming a person and figuring out who you are in front
of people and then you have something you know crazy happening in your life and you know people
build you all the way up to try to tear you down i can only imagine what it's like
have you caught the daddy boy yet man i want kids man i mean i've been one children before
like you could even imagine.
Like, I raised all the kids in my family.
Like, you know, my younger brother, he's 20 years old.
He just had his first child.
You know, I remember when he was a child.
You know, like, I used to burp him, change his diaper.
So, now he got a baby.
Like, so.
Just take the condom off.
Nah, I don't think it's that simple, like, for me.
You know, I want to make sure.
For you, Charlamagne, no problem.
But someone like Che, who has things at risk.
Right.
You know, you just want to take the con, man.
That sounds a little crazy.
There's more to it than that, I would like to believe.
No, but I want kids.
I want a family, all that, man.
But, you know, 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 that my mama been begging me for a grandbaby or, you know,
any of that.
I just want to make sure that it's the right decision.
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, oh, you got to have a baby now.
You got to have a family now.
Everybody.
I get that too.
My whole family.
Every time I come home.
Now I got a nephew.
So it's definitely, they want me to have a baby like six months from now.
Like, they trying to figure it out.
So when? But I'm sure they're very concerned about who you have
a baby with no actually they're not too much at this point they just want one wow it's so
like i uh i just was actually talking about it earlier my friend um i remember a couple years
ago actually like i had to go take a couple tests a couple yeah i mean i actually didn't know these
people like what claim i had like this type of stuff i keep out the media you know what i'm saying
uh them girls must not got twitter then that's one good tweet no it was it was like a couple
accusations throughout my career it's happened a few times but it's it's so fraudulent that it
don't even make it and you guys do you still keep taking the test no you take it you take it one
time it's cool yeah but i I remember my mama went with me.
I'm like, mom, it's cool.
I don't know this girl.
She's like, but if it is yours,
we got to see it for the blessing it is.
And it's going to be, no,
it's not I don't know who this person is.
Blame it on her.
Can you counter sue people for that?
For taking you to court
and making you take up Attorney tests
I mean by the time I do all that
I've spent more money
Right
You know than they got to offer
Now the last
Tremaine
Is that your last album
On your label?
On this label?
No I actually read up last year
So I got a couple more
Oh okay
Yeah
I got three more albums
Now I read somewhere
I read somewhere that you were
Planning to get married this summer
Is that a rumor?
Yeah it's definitely a rumor
Okay just checking Yeah it's definitely If I was planning to get married this summer. Is that a rumor? Yeah, it's definitely a rumor. Okay, just checking.
Yeah, it's definitely.
If I was planning to get married this summer, she'd probably be pregnant.
Oh, so you're saying that you—
Shotgun wouldn't.
Yeah.
If I knock you up, I might marry you.
No, I'm just saying, why not?
Word.
Do you think that would hurt your image?
Like, if you was, like, married and wifed up with a baby?
Because you are the sex symbol out here.
I mean, that can only go for so long.
You know, as a man, as a person,
I've for a long time let, you know,
public perception and who I am,
like my brand, be the, you know,
be the leading force in my life,
like making decisions about women,
about children, about all that.
So I think I'm at the point where I put in,
you know, enough time where as though I could go, you know, live all that. So I think I'm at the point where I put in enough time
where I could go live my life and my fans would still be happy.
But I still think very seriously about doing it for the right reasons
and making sure it's the right person and not getting caught up.
You'd break so many girls' hearts.
Plus the girl you date or wife up could not have Twitter or Instagram
because them girls online would kill.
They vicious, bro.
Well, I don't know if you're aware,
but I thought you did have a girlfriend.
I don't have a girlfriend.
But somebody that you consider special in your life.
Oh, definitely.
I mean, the only reason we not,
well, one of the reasons is just because of what you're saying.
Like, it take a lot for people to deal with that, you know.
I know what it's like to be scrutinized,
talk crazy to online all day.
But when, you know, you take a picture with somebody
and they just
draw their own conclusions and uh 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 uh build with somebody
and and uh trying to actually become something special you got to kind of really figure out what
it is between the two of you before you share it with the world it's kind of hard when people take
pictures everywhere you go or you know and people want to be appreciated if you
want to be known that they love and you want to be shown and it's just it's it's
complicated you know but I'm trying to figure out what about what guys when
like meek tweet out a tradesrey's done smashed every chick in the industry. I mean, just dry snitching.
Just dry snitching on your boy.
Even your friends know.
Meek dry snitch, 50 to dry snitch.
Everybody dry snitch on your boy.
I'm a scapegoat for these guys.
But does it help or hurt, though?
Because I'm not going to date you.
You smash everything.
I mean, of course, don't nobody want to hear that.
But, you know, I deal with it.
It's true.
And you did give yourself to Monica, Mr. Steal Your Girl,
so you ain't helped the situation.
I mean, I said it one time, and it's been kind of true.
It was caught.
I stole one dude's girl, and now I'm Mr. Steal Your Girl.
Now, what happened with Travis Scott in Virginia?
I don't know.
They said he said-
He said F-Trade songs, and the next thing you know,
there's a bunch of dudes in braids surrounding his tour bus.
That's crazy how that kind of thing happens.
That's crazy how that kind of thing happens.
I don't really know nothing about it.
Do you think that he probably thought he could get away with that
because Trades R&B?
I mean, Travis Scott, the next day he DM'd me and apologized.
I didn't really tell nobody that.
It ain't for nobody to know, but he didn't really tell nobody that it ain't for nobody to know but he ain't really mean that
He ain't he ain't that kind of guy like that. Why though? Why does the f-trace that's random f-trace on?
I'm sure it's a lot of people feel like that. He just started saying what was on his mind You just met his ex-girl, you didn't realize it though. Or maybe you did. Knowing him.
I don't know why he don't like me.
Maybe that's why it's his ex-girl.
But he cool though now.
The bus gets surrounded.
Lord have mercy.
Things change.
Do you get those calls though?
Like, hey bro, did somebody just...
No, I get all those calls.
But I'm so far removed from that, man.
People still at this point in my career associate me with R&B and women and all that so somebody might try me or think something sweet and you know i gotta
kind of look to the side or you know i'm at the point where that don't matter no more
you know what people say uh uh insults that don't really do me any good to like you know say
anything back or send guys or anything like what i mean
they're gonna ride for you anyway though right i ain't calling nobody yeah like i heard you got
beat up yeah that's what happened now have you ever just taken a break to just sit back and enjoy
the fruits of your label because you always like, like you said. Man, listen.
I just said this the other day.
I need a damn break, man.
I've been working real hard.
But I love what I do, though.
You know, I love doing shows.
I was going to ask you, do you still enjoy it?
Because it looked like you had fun when we seen you in Detroit.
It looked like you was really, like you enjoyed it.
I do, bro.
Like, it's nothing I'd rather do.
I remember coming off stage in Detroit.
And, you know, like my first album, July 26, this year, it'd be 10 years.
So I remember the first time I played the big show at the show.
First time I played a lot of these shows that are like staple shows in cities and big shows.
So when I go on stage now and I got my band, I got my production,
I got this,
it's a whole lot different.
But for me,
like I always remember
because it's the same stage,
the same arena,
same dressing rooms,
the same hallways.
Only thing that's changed
is my position in the time.
Right.
I wonder about that
because I always,
like I said since last year
how dope your show had gotten.
And I look at these bills
sometimes and I'm like,
well Trey the biggest artist
on here.
Why it don't seem like
he the headliner?
Because I don't headline a radio show.
You don't pay me enough to do that.
The headliner of a radio show, you got to be there when traffic there.
You got to hold the expectation of a group of people that came to see a group of people.
When you headline a show and it's your show, you know, you are the draw.
You know, I can't be the draw for a radio station unless you giving me.
The money.
Like a whole lot to close the show out.
Because people, no matter what, a radio show, doors open like four or five.
You've been there all day.
It get to be 11 o'clock and the main act ain't went on.
You know, so even if they want to see you, people got things to do tomorrow.
People got traffic.
They got to be.
People got kids.
So now you're there in the arena leaving.
So you're really the biggest act.
People leaving.
Yeah, people leaving. Why you do that? biggest act. People leaving while you're performing.
I always say that.
Going on last isn't always all it's cracked up to be.
It's kind of better to go on.
Not for a radio show, though, because it's a difference.
It's promoted to the radio station's fan base.
So you're talking about people that are fans of all of these artists,
not one more so than the next.
Did you ever imagine this when you first started out to be this big?
Ah, man.
I got dreams of being way bigger.
Hey, we heard you on Z100
a couple weeks ago.
You about to make
that crossover move?
Yeah.
Huh?
You finally about to do
that pop record
that you've been fighting
for so long?
Oh, man.
I mean, you know,
the dope thing about
being on Z100
or having records
go top 40
is I don't make my records with that in focus or in mind.
Like, I think it's been so ill, so much of a blessing to be able to be me on the records.
And, you know, they had a success that they do.
Like I said, it's the fourth number one in the last year for me.
So even for me, it feels like kind of quietly, you know what I mean?
But I'm just all about, you know, making sure that even at this point in my career,
I'm still thriving for the best me, still thriving to be better than I was yesterday,
to make records that are real to me, to make records that my fans can relate to even at this point.
What about acting? I know you put your
foot in there some no I love acting man uh but like this year's been so busy it's been a lot
of opportunities that I've actually missed like due to touring or unavailability uh but I definitely
want to make sure that I don't leave that world for too long because you got to stay present and within that mindset
as a creative person to make sure you're actually good at it.
You take too much time away from something
and you got to start all the way over with your classes,
with your actual presence and awareness.
But I love acting.
Do you have a dream role or a director or somebody you want to work with?
I think just a comedic comedy
romantic joint.
I want to be
an action guy too. I want to jump over
cars and shoot guns.
Save the girl.
You want to live your old life on screen.
When you had the brakes.
He's jumping off stage.
When I was jumping off stage.
He always want to bring up
the crazy. You want to relive your old had the brain. He always want to bring up the crazy.
You want to relive your old life on screen.
You want to jump over cars and shoot guns.
Now, what roles have been out there that we probably know of that you could have had?
Like, I won't say the roles, but just the films in particular, like the barbershop,
just shooting right now, like being able to even not sit down
with Cube
or not
you know
being overseas
you know
you get back
and that's in full production
it's a couple others
as well
would you have done Empire?
yeah
I actually would
you know
depending on what
the role consists of
I don't know if I'd do
Empire as Trey Songz
because that doesn't
really do anything for me as an actor.
It would probably increase my brand within that space
to those Fox viewers that aren't really aware of what's up.
But at the same time, I probably would want something a little better.
I saw your thoughts on Charleston shooting.
Do you believe the answer to hate is simply just to spread love, like you said?
I think, man, if you look at the course of America's history, it's been, you know, things getting shaken up that create change, whether it's done violently, nonviolently.
It's been the speaking about it. It's been the gathering of people to say that we have to have change of a certain sort.
And I think it's just a little devastation that these things are happening now
and it's being, you know, swept under the rug.
Whereas though where, you know, a young man gets arrested and shot up
and they bring up his negative past.
They call him a thug, you know, gangster this.
But, you know, a boy going to church and shooting out people
and they talking about his broken home
and, you know, his mental condition.
But, you know, his mental condition for people
that's in urban environments too,
we never get notoriety for that.
We never get the star after you've done something crazy.
Like, they make a note to point out
the problems for a person.
We're just thugs.
Right, we're just thugs and gangsters.
It's just sad.
When the Charleston thing happened,
I really,
because I know Charleston.
I'm from Virginia.
I've been through that a lot of times.
So it just,
when it happened,
I literally was,
I'm not surprised
because I think that anything can happen in America nowadays.
Anything in the world.
You see more devastating things happen all over.
And we in the most, the best country, we love our country, you know.
But at the same time, I was really like, wow.
I ain't really have no words.
Like, it took me probably, it took me a while to put that tweet together
like to even gather my words
to be encouraging
cause you want
you want to tell people to pray
but people getting killed in church
you want to tell people
to have hope
but the people that's
trying to
be the most positive
about life
the people
even was
said they were so nice
and you want to kill them
like how you
how you even say that
you know
so
like for me it's just
how do you bring your mind to uplift people in a time like this and the only thing that you can't
really do is is spread love because you when you can't change something to how to hate inside you
boiling up and hate against hate is only going to create more hate um so we just got to create
awareness and uh you know have people showing love to one another in more ways than we have been.
All right.
We appreciate you joining us.
Hold on.
We ain't finished yet.
I know.
I seen a headline that said.
Let me try to get me up.
Let me try to cut his shirt.
You've been here a while.
You're like, oh, I'm Richard.
What you got to do, bro?
But what you got to do.
I ain't got nothing to do.
I ain't got nothing.
I'm joking.
If you're looking at it, he said, all right, so.
Oh, you know what?
I know what it is.
MB has an issue with you because of his wife.
I don't.
What?
What was the issue?
Don't start that, because they're going to think he smashed my wife.
I did not.
I did not.
I did look at her crazy, though.
He did.
He did look at your wife, remember?
Remember who was that?
Yeah.
Remember that?
She looked at me.
I looked at my wife kind of crazy one time.
Yeah, she kind of looked back, though, but it was just playful.
I was looking for that when she got home.
Powerhouse.
Powerhouse?
Yeah, what's Powerhouse?
I remember that.
You thought she was an artist.
Yeah, I was like, who is that?
She's popping.
That's why every time you cut the interview, she's like, okay.
I was like, who y'all interviewing?
And she gave me a little look back, you know what I'm saying?
Probably for all the dirt he did.
Just a little quick joint, though.
It can happen.
Like, look, boy.
It can happen.
She's not allowed to take pictures with Trey.
Any order on is good.
But Trey, no.
You're going to make me a fantasy.
You better leave.
All right.
You ought to post the boy for don't leave your girl around me.
How much of that reputation is true at this point?
It's all true.
You just have to understand.
He older now.
He might respect you.
I mean, the thing is, when I actually said that on the record, man, it was a joke.
Like, I was playing around.
That was before the record was even, like, bottoms up.
That's not funny when it's serious.
No, but listen.
But listen, before the song was even written, I said that.
Like, oh, it's Mr. Eager.
So, like, the actual happening of it at this time in my life,
I ain't really trying to take nobody, girl.
The thing is, when I meet women nine times out of ten,
I don't know nothing about they, man.
Right.
You know, so it ain't like you leave and you go to the bathroom
and I pop up and take your girl number.
That would be crazy. It's not like, you and you go to the bathroom and I pop up and take your girl number. That would be crazy.
It's not like, you know what I'm saying?
I literally steal your girl.
It's a horror movie.
Strong arm, your joint.
Like, what's up, B?
Give me that.
It's not that.
It's just over the years, I definitely have found out a lot about a lot of women's men after the fact.
And, you know, it is what it is.
I mean, there was a couple situations, unfortunately,
where a couple people committed suicide.
You said a couple?
Because they said Trey was messing with their chicks.
I mean, the thing about that and what upset me about it,
I actually was, like, 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 based off, you know,
wanting website hits or generation
to get this rumor buzzing, like, that's sad.
That's nothing to play with.
Like, that's real sad.
You don't know what spirits you're playing with. and i won't go into the depth of the situation because i i i
respect the woman we talking about i respect her family and uh i don't want to talk negatively
about anything in the situation but it's it's a sad story um did anybody lose their life because of
me no point blank period you think you could be in a monogamous relationship like when you do decide
to have a baby and settle down you think it's possible to be i think i gotta step back a few
steps from this world you know this this this lifestyle is not one of regular proportions.
Like, everything is extreme.
But can you?
Yes, leave the world.
No, I think.
She going to pull this up later.
No, it just, it got to be a point where I'm ready to separate truly what Trey Songz is from who I am as a person.
And ready to, like, figure out the line between that and my life and
the balance of that like and I've been doing this for a long time and that balance is very hard to
find um you know it's like honestly like when you go somewhere and you know all eyes on you and when
women like men treat a sexy girl that's how girls mean, that's how girls see me. Like, you know how you see a girl, she, you're like, damn.
That's how I'm like me.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, so 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, like, it's take a whole nother type of self-discipline to really,
like, that's even
without a girl.
You know what I'm saying?
That's even, like,
what I'm gonna do.
Like, you gonna be here
for, to do whatever
I wanna do
and you gonna leave.
What's the craziest
I don't have to give
no commitment to you.
I could just
get this stress up off me
and get back to my day to mine
and deal with you.
Like, what about this,
that, and the other,
this girl, this text,
this tweet, this, that,
none of that.
But then you'd be nervous to hear about it later because of social media.
Right, but I don't really trip off that.
And what's the craziest thing a fan has done?
Because, I mean, they chase you.
They're all over you.
They hide in the hotels, you know.
In the room?
Actually, one time in Chicago, yeah, it was a tricky little room.
Like, you got one door, door and you got two doors behind
the door but it's the same room so somehow when i came out one of the doors in the little like i
opened the door so if the door opened like like this there's people right here like three people
in the corner like hiding they had been there for hours though like I ain't know
like I was leaving
the hotel
so just sleeping over
in the hotel
like I said
a fan
tight roped a balcony
trying to get on stage
tight roped a balcony
yeah she could have
lost her life
so you gotta give her
a hug and a kiss
after that
I did I caught on stage
then they arrested her
you called the police
I didn't call the police
you ever have to get
A restraining order?
No you gotta
When somebody put their life
In danger in your establishment
That's a crime
Do you ever have to get
A restraining order
Against anyone?
I have
I'm looking for this person
You know that
I gotta like
I'm trying
I ain't gonna give it too much
I ain't gonna talk about it
But I wanna put a restraining order
You got a stalker or something?
I do man
You got one too
You got a crazy one too
Yeah I'm trying not to talk about it
Cause I don't wanna give attention to it either.
You got to speak about this kind of stuff, Trey.
You don't, man.
My phone's starting ringing right now.
You got your number.
Connections.
You got to speak about this kind of stuff
because it's a double standard.
People think men don't have stalkers.
You're objectified all the time.
They do sexually objectify you.
I am.
I mean, I kind of speak out.
So we feel bad for Trey that he's sexually objectified.
I kind of put that in the air so I ain't really bitching.
He wants to be a piece of meat.
You don't want to be looked at as a piece of meat.
Yes, he does.
I mean, sometimes I'm cool with it.
Sometimes I'm not.
So she's attractive.
Goodness gracious.
It seems like though that you had gotten into a little breakup phase and then gotten back
together with the one woman that it seems like you really care about.
So does it feel like maybe you lost something and then you realized what you lost and wanted to get her back?
But it ain't really that real as a breakup and all that.
Like, that's the thing about looking from the outside, looking in, you just going to paint your own picture for what it is.
And like any relationship, any friendship, you're going to work through this, that, and the other.
If you care about somebody, you're going to try to figure it out.
Like I was saying everything earlier,
it's just difficult trying to build a foundation
or try to find something real with somebody
when everybody's so quick to try to tear it apart.
You know what I mean?
I'm blessed, man.
I've been doing this a very long time
and I've been blessed to not have most of my relationships.
Everybody know me, Trey, Mr. Steal Your Girl,
get the girls, sex this, sex that,
but my business ain't been in the street for the most part.
I like that.
When you get a woman and you know my reputation,
I got to make sure she knows she loved i gotta and i gotta do that
without you know uh really relying on social media to do that i gotta do that with making
sure she know that in her heart i gotta do that with making sure that uh you know it can't be
torn apart by what people say uh and plus it's precious just because you Trey Songz. You got to do like the extra special R&B stuff.
Like candles and flowers.
What is the most
extra special thing you've done?
You can't be tired
when your girl's horny
if you Trey Songz.
You can't not send roses
when you make a mistake.
You can't, you know what I mean?
Everything.
It's a very high level of,
I mean from a woman
that knows her worth.
What's the most extra special thing you've done, though, would you say?
I've done a lot of special things.
I ain't really going to talk about that on air, though.
There you go.
I saw you on Andy Cohen last night.
Yeah, that was fun, man.
Lipstick Alley had a headline that said,
Homophobic singer Trey Songz is gonna be on Andy Cohen
Why I gotta be that?
Exactly, that's what I'm saying
Where did it come from?
I was like when did Trey become homophobic?
At first I was a homo, now I'm homophobic
They don't know what they want me to be
They want me to be gay, they want me to f*** your girl
They want me to hate the gays
They don't know what to do with this.
Damn.
Figure it out.
I got this liquor, man.
That's sex, man.
Peddling this booze.
I got trigger reloaded in stores.
Slow motion number one right now.
About you coming next, man.
It's the breakfast clip. Thank you. Thank you, Jay, coming next, man. It's the breakfast clip.
Thank you.
Thank you, Trey, for closing it out.
It's over.
All right, Trey, thanks for having you.
You did a great job.
We understand everything about it.
It's your boy DJ Envy signing off.
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