Zenger: Absolutely! I was bugged out when I found out ‘Where I Wanna Be’ was a real-life situation for you. One thing about music, man, is we’re always going to be in relationships out there, but ain’t nobody talking about what they are going through. So, I feel like there is a street that ain’t nobody driving on, and an artist like myself can just drive on that street by myself and just have a lane to myself and an artist like me. And our stuff was mostly based on relationships with one person.We had a couple of swagged-out records, but for the most part, it was mostly about love, makeups and breakups, and all things that happen in relationships. I think that’s what makes our generation of music a little bit different. Today they talk about how much money they got, how many chicks they are going to get into the bed. I think the difference between the R&B of yesteryear and today is the fact that our subject matter was different. We talked about love a little bit more.

you got people like Ella Mai, a lot of youngsters out there doing it. It’s like a hybrid right now. But true R&B, I don’t think it will ever die. Jones: I feel like R&B can never die. I feel like the lines are blurred right now between the youngsters doing their thing. Zenger: Do you see a void in what is deemed real R&B music? And when will we see a Donell Jones record or a case record? So we know we can expect that void to be filled. We’re not holding anything back, and we’re going to give it to them in the raw, and that’s how I approached it. My family asked me, ‘Do you want me to talk about this?’ I was like, ‘Man, ya’ll just keep it 100 and tell the truth. I just felt like…I didn’t know I was going to get the opportunity to do it, but I said, ‘If I ever do this show, I’m going to let it all out because if I’m going through it, maybe my story can help somebody else.’ And I just wanted to be 100% real. You know why? I had watched that ‘Unsung’ show a few times with artists on there.

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