Sometimes in life, you have to go through breakups and relationships that end up not working out. YouKnowIGotSoul: What happened to the “Mr. I don’t want to spoil it I just want to give you guys a sample of what the song is about. We take a blind eye to a lot of other things relationship wise. Sometimes we get so lost in the responsibilities of the day we tend to have. It’s also about waiting for the one you love to meet you halfway. Sometimes you have to wait a long time to get back into that zone. It’s interesting because the song is called “Waiting on You”, but the song represents my creativity in that moment, feeling like you’re in that zone. I got in the studio and said I was going to write a record and I did just that. It’s probably the only record on the album that I will say happened in one day.
I did that with my boy Brady Watt who is actually my bass player. One of my favorites on the album is called “Waiting on You”. There is also new music that just got created. There are joints like that which are very much gems that have been around for a while and aged like wine. So it had this very unique quality to it.
What I did was, I took certain songs from certain years, like late 99 or something, and I updated it and put some new drums on it, or layered vocals and added keys. I was able to kind of have these little pockets of time that will now last forever with these songs. I will say the album is the sum of a lot of different moments in time that are important to me. It took a very long time to get this done. Jon B.: I’m so excited to have the album coming too. YouKnowIGotSoul: Talk to us about the upcoming album. The audience hasn’t heard it yet, and I already feel like it’s a hit. It reminds me how I felt when I did “R U Still Down”. This means the most to me that anything has in a really long time. I’ve done a lot of collaborating over the years. The quality of the whole thing is very high. I haven’t really felt this good about a song I put out in a very long time. I just said to him “Now we do the video for this!” I feel really good about it. He recorded his verse at his studio and he sent me it. It took a long time to get it done, because both of us had such grueling tour schedules. It’s crazy because that’s the one I had in mind. He instantly got back to me and said that was the one. After this last time seeing him at this show, I gave him a key with some music on it, including “Understand”. We kept saying we need to do something but never made it happen. We kept running into each other at these shows.
It wasn’t until I ran into Donell Jones, we were doing a show together. When he wrote the record with me, I recorded it, and said the cadence of the first verse, I didn’t know if it was me, it sounded like Donell Jones! I wasn’t thinking let me make this a duet with him. He became an incredible vocal coach and has worked with everyone from Fifth Harmony to Beyonce. He always was a great singer and songwriter. If you watched the “They Don’t Know” video, the barber is Tim Carter. When I first wrote and produced the record, a friend of mine, Tim Carter. YouKnowIGotSoul: Talk about your new single “Understand” with Donell Jones. Jon touched on a wide range of topics and shared great insight.
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Check out what he had to say below.Īlso be sure to check out the full podcast in case you missed it. He gave us the scoop on his upcoming single “Understand” with Donell Jones, his new album, and whatever happened to his single “Hurricane” and “Mr. as a special guest on SoulBack R&B podcast.
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