R&B artists mostly sing about making love. I give all glory to God for giving me a second chance to do what I love to do.ĭo you feel like it’s difficult balancing being a follower of Christ and at the same time creating music that’s secular?
That ain’t what I’m about, so I had to step back and get my mind correct. So I had to step back, because you can lose yourself in this business.
I strayed away from that and from what I was taught as a kid. All I grew up with was love from my family. Coming from La Marque, Texas, I didn’t have that much. Then all of a sudden my life started to change. I really got my first regional hit with “Berry Long.” Before that, I just had my son. What sparked your decision to first fallback as an artist and then return to releasing music? They’ve got a new single out, and they’re doing their thing. I got to perform with my boys one more time. We did a tour overseas last year in April. I came after Pleasure left, but they just reunited. Since that time, you’ve been able to establish yourself as a solo artist, but you’ve also spent time as a member of Pretty Ricky. I just always knew in my heart that wasn’t the route I would take. I’m not telling nobody to not go to college, because that may be the way you need to go. People would try to feed that into my head. I knew this was something I was going to do. Probably when I was able to start talking. I loved it.Īt what point did you realize this was something you wanted to do for your career? My grandfather is also a musician, so we just grew up around it. Everybody in our family played instruments or sang. My mother had seven sisters, so I grew up with eight women. By the time I was 2 years old, I was in love with the drums. What was it like growing up in a family like that? You have a pretty well established musical family. Fam Music label also covers his Christian faith, working with New Orleans rapper Juvenile, and being a fan of R&B legend D’Angelo. In this exclusive interview, the head of the independent J. King guitarist Curtis Long by presenting Soul-based tunes with live instrumentation.Ī spoke with J. Long is following in the tradition of his uncle Huey Long of The Ink Spots and his grandfather B.B.
The La Marque, Texas native has now made his return from a behind-the-scenes executive to a recording artist with a series of songs running up to his next LP EVOL’ED. Since that time, a two-year stint with the R&B/Hip Hop group Pretty Ricky further expanded Long’s reach with music fans before he went on a hiatus as a performer Long broke out in 2006 with his single “Berry Love,” and three years later he released his debut album Girl Listen. Also expect appearances from Ne-Yo and production by Jim Jonsin and Rico Love.Singer-songwriter J.
The first fruit of the new project can be heard in a new single, "I Love Girls," for which he linked up with Tyga. "It’s so hard to just pick 10, so what I do is put together these listening events and I bring out wine and a lot of females to come through, and folks will take a sheet and tell me which songs are the best," P said. To make the final selections, he needed a little help from his friends. One thing I could tell you about him is he’s one guy that’s humble, he never let the money change him, and I respect him for that."įor King of Romance, the silky-voiced singer recorded over 100 songs, which he then had to narrow down to 10. He signed at Atlantic and we would always run into each other, that’s just been a friend of mine for years. "It was a studio where all the local guys would come to, and Flo was in a group called Grind Hogs, and he was the cool one out the group, and we ran into each other a few years after I made it. "See the thing is with Flo, we came up together, before Pretty Ricky or any of that, we used to record at the same studio," P said. The two penned several songs together, including Flo's recent international smash "Wild Ones." More collaborations will appear on both artists' respective upcoming albums. While he was away, P linked up with his old friend and fellow Miami native Flo Rida. All that stuff takes time and I don’t think people understand that when you’re signed to somebody it takes time with attorneys and that kind of stuff to get out of that and into a new situation." "They were a good label for my beginning years as an artist, but you know things changed, and now I’ve got a new situation with E1. I was at Atlantic Records and it just didn’t work out there," P said, explaining his hiatus in an interview with BET.com. King of Romance, P's sophomore album, is due in stores October 9 on E1 Records. Pleasure P has been out of the spotlight since he steamed up the charts with his song "Boyfriend #2" in 2009, but armed with a hot new album and a new record deal, the former Pretty Ricky crooner is plotting his return.