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MTV: This album is called The Life. Do you feel that you've gone in a more personal direction on this album?

Ginuwine: [It's about] life in general, but it's about my life, too. There's nothing that you can go through in life that my album is not gonna tell you about. [I've] always been writing about relationships and what people go through. I'm moving a lot, so I hear a lot of things and I just make a mental note of a lot of the stuff that I hear. Somebody could just say a catchy phrase and I'll take the phrase and make a whole song about it.

MTV: We talked to Monica recently and she had taken a break from writing and recording because she had a tragedy in her life, and you had one between the recording of your last album and this album. How did you deal with the loss [of your parents]? Did you start writing again?

Ginuwine: I started writing when it was time for me to write, but in writing I actually saw how that made me look deeper. Stuff I'm saying on this album, I would have never said on the last album. With the stuff that happened to me, I think I was able to get my point across easier and have people understand where I'm coming from.

MTV: Is there a song dedicated to your parents?

Ginuwine: I did a song called "Two Reasons I Cry" and it's basically because my mom and my dad are gone and that was the last song I did on the album. I wanted to do it when I really felt it and one night I was in the studio and [producer] Cory Rooney's people played a song for me and I was like, "That's it right there." I wasn't gonna just do it so I could say I did something for my mom and dad. If the right song didn't come up, I might've done it [on] the next album, but the right song came up. That told me that it was the right time, so I went in there, I wrote and it took me all night to do it, because I was crying. I [would do] three lines, and then I cried. It was a real hard night for everybody, but everybody understood and we got through it and it came out a great song.

It was a little bit of relief because I was trying to keep it in and that's what drove me crazy for a minute, so I let it out in song, the best way that I know how and it helped me a lot.

MTV: I can imagine it would be difficult cause so much of the stuff on your previous albums is just very sexy and sexual. Is that just something that [naturally happens] when you're in the studio, you gravitate to the sexy tracks?

Ginuwine: The track will talk to you. The track won't say the words, but the track will give you the melody and once you get that, you think of a topic. If it's a fast song, you think of a funny topic or a catchy topic. I like to deal with sayings like, "two wrongs don't make a right," and "what comes around goes around" when it comes to fast songs. There's been plenty of times where someone would put on a song I'll look up and just say [something] real quick and it'll be the perfect words for it. If it's a slow track and it's got a lot of guitar in it, that's telling me to whine, basically cry about something

MTV: You left the music scene for a minute, but then you came back strong with the first single [and] that's already getting played everywhere. Tell me about your first single.

Ginuwine: The first single is a song called "There It Is." It's about a guy that does a lot for his woman and she doesn't appreciate it and basically [it's meant] to show women [that] there are some good guys out there.

MTV: How did the collaboration with Ludacris [on "That's How I Get Down"] come about?

Ginuwine:When [producer] Timbaland played me the beat, I was like, "Dag, this sounds like something Ludacris should be on." So I finished writing it, and I was like, "He needs to be on this, Tim." So Tim called Ludacris and luckily he was in New York at the time. I told him to come check it out and see if he wanted to do it. He was like, "Yeah, I wanna do it," so he jumped on it and did a great job.

MTV: Do you know what song your next single's going to be?

Ginuwine: "Why Not Me." It's basically a song saying, "Why can't the younger dude get the older lady, or the guy with the saggy pants with the hat turned backwards get the corporate woman?" It's like, "Why not me?" I'm still a person. You gotta look on my inside, not my outside.

MTV: Is that song coming from personal experience?

Ginuwine: I write a lot from personal experiences. I don't really make up nothing. Everything you hear is pretty much something that's happened to either myself or someone that I know. I think that's the best way to do it if people [are] going to buy your album and you say that you write from experiences.

MTV: Are there any other artists on the album besides Ludacris, any other collaborations?

Ginuwine: No. Everyone who's bought my albums knows there's usually only one artist on there, because I believe that if someone's gonna buy your album they're buying it for you, not for a lot of other artists. At the same time, you wanna give a person a treat. I just take it so serious when it comes to my albums because that's my heart, that's all I have, so I put a treat on my album every once in a while.

MTV: You're also known for your really intense stage show. Are you going to be touring soon?

Ginuwine: Yeah, we're going to the big cities, just [to] let everybody know 'I'm back, I'm coming, my album's out.' Then we're supposed to be doing a big tour sometime in July or August. I've been waiting to get back on the stage because that's where I love to be, that's where I'm happy. That's where I get all the energy I got balled up in me, or frustration or whatever. It'll come out on the stage and that's how I get relieved.

MTV: How involved are you in the choreography, because it seems very natural. It doesn't seem too routine-oriented.

Ginuwine: Whatever dances you see me doing alone is pretty much off the top of my head. The dancing that you see me doing with [my dancers], of course that's choreographed. But I think of Michael Jackson when I do my steps because he breaks off into his own thing. No one can ever do that like he does it and that's how I feel. I can't lie, I practice a little bit for what I'm doing, but a lot of the times, I practice in my head 'cause I already know my body can do it.

MTV: You did a movie called "Juwanna Mann." When is that supposed to be released?

Ginuwine:It was supposed to be released this October, but it got some real good reviews so it got pushed up to May. I didn't even think it was gonna come out that soon. I play Vivica Fox's boyfriend [whose] name is Romeo. It's a basketball comedy about a guy who don't know how to play team ball. He's in the NBA, he's got a big head and he's always overdoing it, so he gets kicked out the NBA, but he dresses as a woman and joins the WNBA and then he learns about team ball and all that stuff. It's so funny.

MTV: So you actually dressed up like a woman?

Ginuwine: No, that was [Miguel Nunez]. It wasn't me. I'm just the boyfriend of Vivica Fox.

MTV: I read a couple of years back about a fragrance line that you did. Are there other products coming out?

Ginuwine: Yeah, we was trying to do G-strings and the perfume thing, we're still trying to do it. I kind of backed up off of it because a lot of things had happened and because I didn't wanna put up all the money. I'm getting back into the swing of everything, so it probably will happen maybe [at] the end of this year.

MTV: Do you find that most of your fans are women as opposed to men?

Ginuwine: That's who I do it for. I don't do it for the guys. I'm here for the ladies, I wanna speak to the ladies.

MTV: Last summer there was somebody going around impersonating you.

Ginuwine: Still is.

MTV: Did they find this guy?

Ginuwine: No, he's still walking around impersonating me, making people mad, but they know it's not me so it's not really hurtin' me, it's just making me mad because I'm like, "Why do that?" You're not me. It makes no sense. But he's been going around getting money and stuff like that, so whenever he does get caught, he'll probably get put in jail 'cause he's got a couple of felony charges against him already.

MTV: I heard he was even booking concerts and things.

Ginuwine: Yeah, and he accepted a certain amount, so that's a felony after a certain amount. I will be right there in his face saying, "Yeah, go to jail." Because that's not right, you shouldn't do that.

MTV: Was it in any way flattering, though, to think that somebody would do that? Ginuwine: Not at all. It wasn't flattering because it would've been different if it was somebody calling you, saying they admire you and you make me wanna do music, like I would with Michael Jackson. But don't try to bash my name or make me look bad, even though it's not me. It still leaves a nasty taste in people's mouths.

MTV: Also, the rumor mill keeps talking about connections between you and [singer] Solé , can you just set the record straight?

Ginuwine: I keep my private life private now. I think all artists should do that. I don't speak on that