Re: Tyrese Alter Ego Zip
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The album was formatted as a double album, intending to market Tyrese's contrasting facets of artistry. The first disc contains slow and midtempo pop and R&B songs, while the second, Black-Ty (named after his on-stage rapper alter ego), focuses on hip hop and uptempo beats.
Throughout the interview, Tyrese inspired me with his unrelenting drive to see his vision come to fruition, whether it's an album, film project or one of his many business ventures. There is more to him than meets the eye. Completely self made, Tyrese is a multi platinum selling and Grammy nominated recording artist, movie star, model and business executive. He oversees his own multi media company, Headquarter Entertainment. Tyrese's upbringing in the Watts Quarter of South Central Los Angeles, he says, is what is responsible for instilling in him a strong desire for success at an early age. He found initial success in a Coca-Cola commercial and modeling contracts with Tommy Hilfiger and Guess?. Tyrese released his self-titled, first album in 1998 followed by 2000 Watts in 2001. That notoriety led to films like Baby Boy, Flight of the Phoenix, 2 Fast 2 Furious and Four Brothers. After several multi-platinum selling R&B albums, Tyrese is venturing into hip-hop with a new double album entitled, Alter Ego. This album will feature two full discs of music: one R&B disc and one disc under his hip-hop alter ego, Black-Ty. This is a project that Tyrese takes very seriously, as he explains to me that he has always had a passion for rap music. The Black-Ty hip-hop disc features guest appearances from Snoop Dogg, The Game, Kurupt, Too Short, Manni Fresh, Lil Scrappy and Method Man and comes out on December 12th through J Records.
Tyrese Gibson: Yeah. Every collaboration that's happened on that album… I did what I had to do to get a hold of them. Went to a club, tracked them down. Did whatever it took to get these collaborations done. I take this very serious, this rap thing. Another thing is, it's real simple. People have asked me, "Why would you make a transition now, after three R&B albums?" Well, you look at Lauryn Hill; look at Mary J. Blige, who's out here rapping. You look at all these other alter egos and you say to yourself, you know what, at the end of the day we're all creative people. If you decide to limit yourself and put your own creativity in a box because of the backlash or the opinion of another man, then you're taking your blessing for granted. I don't really know of anybody who does the amount of things that I've done and had the success at it. It's because I get bored easy and I always try to figure out a way to stay stimulated and accomplish one thing after the other. Audio Clip
On Tuesday afternoon, the multi-hyphenate went on Instagram to announce he was reviving his Black-Ty alter ego for an upcoming rap album. Tyrese said the game-changing project will be titled Identity Theft and will take cues from some of the biggest names in hip-hop history.
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