Hey, it wasn't even about a a particular thing that made me want to sing per se. I I just like to sing. I like to rap. I like music. Anytime we were in a car, any song that came on, I knew the words to it if it was on the radio. And that's why being here at Iheart is important, like just uh reassures the importance of what radio is. Radio, when I was coming up, was all you had. It was the only indicator of like what a superstar was or what a hit record was. You know, and um listening to the radio, I was just rapping. My friends were actually back then they called me jukebox because I get in the car any song. If it came out, it was new or old, I would know it. Put your hands in the air.

Oh, Na na na. Look what you done started. Oh, Na na na. Why you got to act so naughty? What up? What up? It's your boy Trey Songs, and you're watching my Backstage Diaries on my I Heart album release party. Oh, Na na na. If you keep shaking that. This is the first CD I've ever held. Because Young Hollywood has the exclusive first time of me ever holding my CD. It's like right here in my hands. It's crazy. You know the thing about CDs these days, like everybody buys music on phones and you know, the thing about that I love about the target thing we have going on too is that people have to go actually get a CD and like hold the artwork and you have credits you can read.

Like I I used to enjoy that experience. Yeah, the first half of the show was uh on the radio. So I wanted to do all new records. Understand what the new album was and understand uh what those records sound like and I I did them in order where though I could have the biggest record be last. Of course, you know, cuz it leads up to the excitement of what Na na na is. And and giving just classic records that I love to perform and that I know my fan base loves. Oh, man, my angels. I love them to death. First of all, uh I saw a gang of them out here at the show today. Uh and they're always so supportive anytime that they can be.

I couldn't really put all the way into words what it is that they mean to me because the support they give me is just phenomenal. Shout out to all my angels. Shout out to everybody on the Angel Network. I love y'all. Yeah, everything involves music, uh people. As far as the evolution of R&B, uh definitely uh become kind of a hip-hop hybrid within the last couple years. Uh as far as mainstream R&B is concerned, as far as what will chart uh top the charts. And that's always to be changed, you know.

Every couple years it goes through a different phase of what becomes a hit record, which you have to do as an artist that uh reinvents themselves is understand how to not conform to the changes but, you know, have the changes conform to you. While my album is still an R&B album and it's still very much uh who I am. Uh the production is a bit more today. The themes of the music are a bit more today, what consists of making hit music, you know. But still not sacrificing what it is I want to do to make uh quote-unquote hit. Uh balance is something of um um I kind of figured out early on. You know, my career took off gradually.

It wasn't like something that I looked up one day and I was a superstar. It was years and years. And I'm pretty much uh a grounded person. You know, my mother and my my family instill those morals within me. No matter how many records I sell, how much money I make, how many fans I have, how many uh how many followers I got on Twitter, Instagram, I'm still just a man. What's up? This is Trey Songs. This is my Backstage Diary. Yeah.