![]() ![]() Reluctant to sing, he began performing with encouragement by friends and family in high school. Record producer Troy Taylor discovered Songz during a talent show, which led him to sign a recording contract with Atlantic Records in November 2000. While recording his debut album in 2004, Songz released multiple mixtapes under the alias Prince of Virginia.Īfter graduating from Petersburg High School in 2003, Songz moved to New Jersey to begin recording his debut album, though recording did not actually begin until 2002. One of the mixtapes featured an “answer track” to R. Kelly’s “Trapped in the Closet”, entitled “Open the Closet”. His debut album, I Gotta Make It was released on July 26, 2005. It debuted at #20 on the Billboard 200, selling 40,000 copies in its first week of sales. Songz’s debut single, Gotta Make It, featuring Twista, was released in March 2005 and reached #87 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #21 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. It garnered success in the R&B/urban community but failed to make a mark in mainstream music. The album’s second and final single, Gotta Go, was released in July 2005 and reached #67 on the Hot 100 and #11 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, becoming even more successful than his debut single in the R&B/urban community and in the mainstream community. After promotion for his debut concluded, he was featured on the lead single from Twista’s fifth album, The Day After. The single, “Girl Tonite”, reached #14 on the Hot 100 and #3 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, becoming a huge hit. In mid-2006, Songz began work on a follow-up album to his debut with longtime collaborator Troy Taylor and also employed successful Bryan-Michael Cox, Danja, Stargate and R. Trey aimed for the album to be more mainstream-oriented than his debut album. His second studio album, Trey Day, was released on October 2, 2007. The album reached #11 on the Billboard 200, selling 73,000 copies in its first week. It has since sold 400,000 records in the US, becoming his second album not to be certified by the RIAA. He’s still helplessly subject to his libido though, letting out a primal roar and promising to “turn the bed into a jungle” over the trap inflections of “Animal.”.The album was going to be released on May 8, 2007, but was continually delayed in order for a successful single to precede the album, as the lead single failed to impact charts. There’s authentic conflict and melancholy in his voice as he wrestles with a burgeoning desire to settle down on slow jam “Playboy.” On “She Lovin It,” an acoustic soul cut supercharged by a funk bassline, he even sounds shocked by an ex’s lascivious advances. EDITORS’ NOTES On Tremaine Neverson’s seventh album, introspection tempers the bedroom swagger of 2014’s Trigga. He’s still helplessly subject to his libido though, letting out a primal roar and promising to “turn the bed into a jungle” over the trap inflections of “Animal.”. ![]() ![]()
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