Lil' Wayne is "Down" with Jay Sean

Welcome to younghollywood. com. Yo, yo, people, what's good? This is your boy J. Sean, all the way from the UK to the USA. You know what I'm saying? You might know me for a joint that goes a little like. Baby, don't worry. You are my only. You won't be lonely, even if the sky is falling down.

What's up, Young Hollywood? It's Michelle Marie here, hanging out rooftop with R&B sensation, J. Sean. Now, I have to say you are tearing up the airwaves right now. So when was the first time you actually knew that down was gonna be a hit?

We were playing it at the Miami Hit Factory for all the people at Cash Money. And there was a silence after it played. And then Slim, who's the dog, like the top dog, he he owns the label. He got up from his seat, he turned around, he looked at me and he just clapped. And I just went, is that good? And he was like, Never know when it's coming from Slim. And he was like, That's real good, dog. And he like, he real speaks real quiet, and that's the only thing, he goes, We got a winner, man. And I was like, Okay, you're the man, let's do this. Get me kind of that kind of Lil Wayne fame, that Lil Wayne money, baby, I'm fine, I'm happy. Even if the sky is falling down, like she supposed to be, she gets down with me. Down like her temperature, cuz to me she's 0 degrees.

What is it like working with Lil Wayne?

Let me tell you, Wayne is one of the most professional people I've ever met met and ever worked with. And very, very warm and honestly, it sounds so stupid, but just like, polite and sincere and and down to earth. He walked in on the video set, he came straight up to me, and gave me a huge hug. And he was like, Brother, welcome to the family. I love this song. This song's gonna be huge, you're gonna be huge. And I was like, thank you Lil Wayne. Much appreciated.

Now, speaking of the video, I know you guys recently shot it, tell me about the concept behind it.

Okay, the whole thing about the concept of the video and the song, was that it was meant to be something real, young, fresh. The reason why I wrote the song in the beginning was because I felt like, you know now we look at so much on the news, and everything's so depressing. And I was like, you know what, this, we need to do something where we kinda take people away for three minutes, away from all their troubles, they put they got, Oh, this is my joint. Jam out, have some fun. And that's the whole point of the video as well. So the video was meant to be like this sort of, you know, magical, mysterious, Harry Potter type of thing, you know what I mean?

Now when people hear your music, what kind of influences do they familiarize themselves with?

I grew up listening to a lot of the big soul singers and like R&B singers, you know, my favorite group of all time is Boyz II Men. And of course, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Donny Hathaway, these kind of people. Um, but then heavily go into hip hop as well, but this album is um, you know, predominantly taking some of that sound like, you know, Joe C and all this stuff that I fell in love with back then. And that kind of writing style and that kind of way of singing.

What is your creative process like? Do you have a specific way?

There's only one thing that I definitely go by all the time, is that if it's not coming to me instantly and I'm working too hard to try to find the right melody or to try to find the right lyric, or if I don't feel like immediately going in the vocal booth and recording the song, I know it's not a hit. I just know, cuz I'm like, damn, if I'm not even psyched enough to record it, why should anybody else want to even hear it?

So how do you find time to date? Do you do it at all or anyone you've been star struck by?

First of all, if I ever see Kim Kardashian, wait a minute. Kim, holler at me, man. Hit me up, Twitter. J. Sean, let's do this. I'm in L. A. , I will stay here for another year if you want me to. All right, let's do this.