Tyrese Denies Album Leak A Publicity Stunt
Almost two weeks after several tracks from his forthcoming album Alter Ego were leaked onto the Internet, singer/actor Tyrese is speaking out on the incident.
"It’s an engineer who leaked my s**t," Tyrese revealed to AllHipHop.com. "It’s one of the cats I just started working with. It’s one of them. We just trying to figure out which one."
Alter Ego is a new dual disc CD which features Tyrese crooning R&B songs on disc one, while he introduces his rap alias Black-Ty on the second disc.
The album includes cameos from Snoop Dogg, Paul Wall, Chingy, the Game, Guerilla Black, and Kurupt as well as production from the Frontline Boyz.
At least seven to eight R&B and Hip-Hop songs slated for the album were leaked, Tyrese admitted, adding that the leak has caused him to go back into the studio to redo and re-tweak the stolen material.
"It’s one of those situations where you got a bunch of different engineers working in the studio and I got about at least five or six engineers I deal with and one of them decided they just gonna take some joints off of my computer," said Tyrese, who added that he heard the perpetrators were attempting to sell the tracks to someone. "Other than that, there was supposed to be some other records on there that I was about to put out on my first mixtape with DJ Warrior."
Although his new movie Waist Deep arrives in theaters Friday (June 23), Tyrese is quick to dismiss any rumors of the album leak being a publicity stunt.
"I want people to know this ain’t a publicity stunt because at the end of the day, if it was a publicity stunt, then songs that are leaked on the net would be mixed, and mastered and they would be songs that I want people to hear," said the entertainer/businessman. "You want people to hear you at your best. When you just in there cutting and f**king around, trying to figure everything out and some of the records get leaked, that’s just not the way you want to go about [it]. But some records that are on there that are out there are important, but others are like well, they’re out there now. So it’s all good."
Tyrese’s mixtape with DJ Warrior, which features 50 Cent, hits stores June 27. Alter Ego is slated to arrive in late fall.
"It’s an engineer who leaked my s**t," Tyrese revealed to AllHipHop.com. "It’s one of the cats I just started working with. It’s one of them. We just trying to figure out which one."
Alter Ego is a new dual disc CD which features Tyrese crooning R&B songs on disc one, while he introduces his rap alias Black-Ty on the second disc.
The album includes cameos from Snoop Dogg, Paul Wall, Chingy, the Game, Guerilla Black, and Kurupt as well as production from the Frontline Boyz.
At least seven to eight R&B and Hip-Hop songs slated for the album were leaked, Tyrese admitted, adding that the leak has caused him to go back into the studio to redo and re-tweak the stolen material.
"It’s one of those situations where you got a bunch of different engineers working in the studio and I got about at least five or six engineers I deal with and one of them decided they just gonna take some joints off of my computer," said Tyrese, who added that he heard the perpetrators were attempting to sell the tracks to someone. "Other than that, there was supposed to be some other records on there that I was about to put out on my first mixtape with DJ Warrior."
Although his new movie Waist Deep arrives in theaters Friday (June 23), Tyrese is quick to dismiss any rumors of the album leak being a publicity stunt.
"I want people to know this ain’t a publicity stunt because at the end of the day, if it was a publicity stunt, then songs that are leaked on the net would be mixed, and mastered and they would be songs that I want people to hear," said the entertainer/businessman. "You want people to hear you at your best. When you just in there cutting and f**king around, trying to figure everything out and some of the records get leaked, that’s just not the way you want to go about [it]. But some records that are on there that are out there are important, but others are like well, they’re out there now. So it’s all good."
Tyrese’s mixtape with DJ Warrior, which features 50 Cent, hits stores June 27. Alter Ego is slated to arrive in late fall.
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