Video Interviews with ‘Legion’ Stars Tyrese Gibson and Kate Walsh Tyrese, Ginuwine, Tank Form R&B Group TGT Hip-Hop Crunch Wigler, Josh (July 2, 2009). INTERVIEW: Tyrese Gibson Gets In Waist Deep. It's a slightly better launch than his last effort, 2011's Open Invitation (76,000), but still not as big as it could have been, says Gibson, who goes by stage name Tyrese.Tyrese: Waist Deep. 24.His sixth album, Black Rose, sold 83,000 copies its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Since last year, artists such as Mary J. "People on my Instagram, Twitter and Facebook were saying, 'Bro, I drove to four stores and they don't even have a copy of your album.' And I said, 'Do you know what? This is exactly why I'm glad this album is winning, because hopefully, it's going to re-spark this genre.' "It's not that R&B lacks popular appeal. "I feel like ( Black Rose) was under-shipped, because most of the retailers didn't want to buy a bunch of albums and not have them sell," Gibson, 36, says. Earlier this week, while shooting the upcoming film Dangerous in Kamloops, Canada (costarring Scott Eastwood.
"I'm simply asking the question: If Justin Timberlake, Robin Thicke and Sam Smith are singing R&B/soul music, how is it possible that they're being played by Top 40, rhythmic and urban AC stations? Yet when we sing R&B/soul, it's only being played on black radio? It's not fair, it's not right and I'm not having it."I don't have a problem with any of these artists, or the fact that they're white and singing R&B/soul," Gibson continues. 2 on USA TODAY's Urban Adult Contemporary airplay chart)."I'm not a racist, I'm not using the race card and I'm not trying to create any type of negative energy toward (radio hosts) Ryan Seacrest or Elvis Duran specifically," Gibson says. Even Gibson has had his share of hits on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, cracking the top 20 with Sweet Lady in 1999 and How You Gonna Act Like That in 2003.But where Gibson sees an issue now is mainstream radio, which tends to favor pop and hip-hop acts, and has not embraced his single Shame with Jennifer Hudson as others station have (it currently sits at No.
The decision to make it his last doesn't stem from frustration with the state of R&B or the music industry, but is purely so he can focus on being a dad to his eight-year-old daughter, Shayla, following a messy divorce from ex-wife Norma Mitchell."The truth is, you can't be chasing a music career when you have 50/50 joint legal custody," Gibson says. We will continue to consider all artists for airplay."Black Rose is Gibson's final solo album, he says, although he is still open to future collaborations (including TGT, his supergroup with Ginuwine and Tank). You can hear hip-hop and R&B artists like Wiz Khalifa, Omarion, The Weeknd, Fetty Wap and Silento, in addition to Nicki Minaj, John Legend and many more, on KIIS currently. It wouldn't have went any further than that."According to a statement provided by assistant program director Beata Murphy of KIIS FM, which airs On Air with Ryan Seacrest, "Pop radio pulls from all genres. If I would've sung Sam Smith's version of ( Stay With Me) that has a full choir on the chorus, my song would've been played on urban AC radio and that's it.
This music and this album is for everybody. "I didn't come this far and work this hard just for me to be a black man that's only selling records to black people. Describing it as a "pure R&B album," he hopes Rose will pick up multiple Grammy Awards next year ("I even want to win for my album packaging")."I've been in and out of court, fighting for child custody, all in the process of trying to record this album," Gibson says.
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