When I came to the Apollo, when I first came on the stage they was booing me. At least that’s what I like to think.ĪHHA: How does it feel to have gotten your start on the Apollo, one of hardest audiences, and you won five times? So I’m not just a mainstream or urban artist, I’m a peopleĪrtist. I concentrate on the message and the melody. I try not to concentrate on all that stuff. It crosses over to pop and all that stuff. You can get a song that’s gangsta as whatever, and if it gets popular it becomes mainstream. Lyfe: Mainstream is a funny title, all mainstream means is popular. You can go through the fire and be reborn through the fire, instead of being destroyed by the fire like the Phoenix.ĪHHA: Do you consider yourself a mainstream artist? Lyfe: Yeah, again the whole aspect of the Phoenix, the surrounding factors. Lyfe: Several things, it just depends on what’s my whim at that time.ĪHHA: Is there anything specifically you’re trying to say on the new album? Lyfe: I think definitely I’m a conscious musician.ĪHHA: What are you trying to say through your music? For me its easy to let go, because I’ve experienced it, I can move on to something new.ĪHHA: Do you think you’re a conscious musician? See all that stuff that they talking bout, I done did that. A lot of cats that’s talking bout that stuff in their songs they haven’t really did that stuff, so they still lusting after that. I would find exciting ways to teach people stuff.ĪHHA: You’re one of the few artists that actually served hard time in jail, but you didn’t take the route of being “gangsta,” especially when its so popular in today’s music. Just the origins of words the whole suffix that changes the meanings of words. But we bringing it back, Bone Thugs & Harmony, Lyfe Jennings, Avant and Van Hunt.ĪHHA: You had said that if you weren’t a singer, you wanted to be an English teacher. Lyfe: I don’t think so, because I don’t really hear a lot of people talking about Ohio. Its not a whole bunch of opportunities for cats to express themselves, so they got to find expression, and that’s usually some violent stuff.ĪHHA: Do you think Ohio has been misrepresented? Lyfe: Basic growing up, a lot of street stuff. I kick it with L sometimes, and my dude Steve Harvey – he’s not a R&B cat, but hes cool. Lyfe: I guess I haven’t met anybody that I feel is real, real cool. Lyfe: Not really, its just not my thing.
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Have you developed any relationships with other artists? Since then you’ve gone platinum and been on tour with Anthony Hamilton. Lyfe: Yeah, I love the song, L is real lyrical, he’s just spitting on the song.ĪHHA: You did an interview last year, and you said that you didn’t really have a relationship with other artists. Lyfe: They actually just called me one day out of the blue, Yo, L want to work with you. When I got to the studio, he didn’t even have a song and we was just bopping around concepts, and L was like, What about this – and he came up with the joint “Freeze.”
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Plus the album had been out for a year and some people had it that long, and I wanted to give them something new.ĪHHA: You have a new single out with LL Cool J, “Freeze.” How did that collaboration come up, since you’re not on the same label? Lyfe: Erin it was just some issues with her management about her being in the video and all these other complicated issues, and I’m an uncomplicated guy. What prompted the change in collaborations? When you said it, I’m smiling again.ĪHHA: The original release featured the song “Hypothetically” with Erin and then was re-released with Fantasia on the track. And being how the album went platinum the album had been out a year before it really caught on. Lyfe: I was glad, especially in this day and time with albums that are going platinum. How does it feel it to finally have taken off? I think everybody’s come back thru the fire, either in good times or bad times.ĪHHA: Your debut album was out a year before it went platinum.
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Lyfe Jennings: My son’s name is Phoenix and then the bird Phoenix, re-incarnated the fire. We met up with Lyfe to discuss his rise to success and his place in the mainstream music arena.Ī Alternatives: Where did you get the title from?
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With the upcoming release of his second album, Phoenix, Lyfe Jennings is ready to go back through the fire to reincarnate both himself and the R&B music scene. Despite unusual challenges, Lyfe Jennings bucked the system, bringing a new style to the mainstream with his slow-burning Platinum debut album, Lyfe 268-192.Īfter his release from prison, Lyfe could have taken the obvious route of a gangsta, but instead choose to speak volumes through music with genuine, conscious lyrics. Check out the EXCLUSIVE acapella performance of Lyfe’s new single “S-E-X” on AHHA!Ī stint in jail, an overnight trip to Apollo for a five-win streak and a debut album that was once dropped by the label is not the typical path of an R&B artist.