If there are any delays, it won’t be more than two weeks. When can fans expect the finished project? We may not agree on many things…but those three seem to part of man’s eternal quest. What’s the inspiration behind the album title? I have a new single called “Tired” and I’m working on a new album called Living…Love…Lies. I say it because somebody that can’t sing as well as me gets a hit and it’s not fair, maybe in my head, but I believe God has my back. In this life, who can say “What is deserving?” God reigns on the just and the unjust. Do you feel like as an artist you get proper credit or do you feel like your catalog speaks for itself? So if you are going to use a second-party, you gotta know who the second party is and usually, it’s a whole bunch of people. It’s writers, producers, the publishers and a whole bunch of other people that need the benefits – not just the artist. There’s a lot of people involved in making a record. I don’t like the shake business, what people are doing now try and pretend that it doesn’t belong to other people, that’s when it gets real ugly. When done right and you get proper credit, it’s all good.
I was happy ’cause I happen to be with Jay and Bey in a session one day and she kept saying “Jay, I know you hungry but can we stop and play the song.” They were playing me some other things they were doing and I know we all have a mutual love for the art. That’s actually the song, Beyoncé sampled on her record “Upgrade U.” How does it feel to have the record brought in the new generation for you? “Girls Can’t Do What Guys Do.” Everybody talks about that song. What would you say was your breakout hit in the black household? I had six hit records which were called “regional hits” like “I Love the Way You Love” and “Girls Can’t Do What Guys Do.” I had records that won awards, records that were hits in New York, D.C., the whole East Coast, that maybe someone didn’t hear in California. But I was already a hit in a black household. I have to tell you, “Clean Up Woman,” although most people think ’cause that’s the one that broke out on pop radio and all over, I had been singing hits before I had “Clean Up Woman.” With “Clean Up Woman” being your breakout hit, what were your initial feelings after you heard how it was being received by fans? The first chance I got to listen at someone else house, I was listening to James Brown, Otis Redding – what we call hardcore R&B. So when The Beatles and the whole English invasion came about, that’s the only music I knew – just really pop, pop, stuff. So I would have to say my mom and my grandmother, who they say my voice is the most like and I’m named after her.īut I didn’t really get to listen to the radio because raised in a sanctified household, there was no R&B music being played, no regular music, which we called “jook” music (laughs). My mom, who was her own instrumentalist, played the guitar. Growing up with a gospel background, where else did you draw your early influences from to start your music career? Even if you don’t have a well-oiled machine, even if you have a fan-base, you have to work that fan-base. It’s just a matter of what machine you have carried you. If that weren’t true, Aretha, Patti Labelle, Chaka Khan, Jennifer Holiday and folks like that with amazing work would be in the top 10 all the time. I guess you can reference who makes it today, which are usually those least talented and have the most push and the most hype. Your talent can only get you so far but it’s the machine behind the talent. It was more industry than me and it was more business than me. Since you started your music career at age 13, what’s one thing you learned early on about the music industry? In our interview with Wright, she talks about her new album, the state of R&B music and much more. Check out our exclusive interview below. In August 2013, the “No Pain, No Gain” singer blessed fans with a new song “Tired” the lead single from her forthcoming album. In addition, she has had her music sampled by artist like Beyoncé along with having the new school of hip-hop artists (Lil’ Wayne, Ace Hood) reaching out for collaborations.
(Mountain of Songs Today Equals Mountain of Stars Tomorrow). Wright has acted as a mentor and vocal specialist on Diddy’s Making the Band and oversees a songwriting school in Miami called, the M.O.S.T.
B Records) where she became the first Black female artist without partners to score a gold album on her label with the album, Mother Wit in 1988. Aside from countless hits after “Clean Up Woman,” Wright launched her own record label (Ms. Since then, Wright’s career has reached even higher heights throughout her four-decade tenure.
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