00:00It's actually an album of covers. I had this idea to take rock and roll songs and make them into a soul album.
00:17The rhythmic song there, Here Comes the Rain, Radiohead, Metallica, Kanye West song.
00:23And there's a duet with Idris Elba. And then there's a couple skits. I've always wanted to do skits, so I finally did a record with skits on it.
00:32And that's Nicole Scherzinger and JB Smooth. And then there's one with MC Light at the end.
00:39I really wanted to pick songs that wouldn't be obvious, you know. The lyrics were important to me.
00:44There had to be songs that I could sing and it would be honest for me, you know.
00:51I could pull it off lyrically and it would sound like it was coming from the heart.
00:55It's a really dark, moody record, so that's where I was at when I made this one.
00:59I'm really busy, plus I have three kids, you know.
01:02So even if I don't have anything to do, I have something to do, you know what I mean?
01:07It's pretty nuts. They're, you know, they're in high school and they're not, you know, when kids are little you kind of like, you know, you can say the sky is purple and they get all excited, you know.
01:23So now, you know, it's a lot more to get them excited and, you know, they like, they do their own thing and they don't tell you.
01:31You kind of get stuck in all the stuff you used to do, you know, it's like payback, you know.
01:36But they're great, they're great kids. They all play instruments and, you know, they're really, really smart, but they are teenagers, you know.
01:45So it's a lot of, like, mental work.
01:48Yeah, we wrapped the Paperboy last year and it's coming out in fall and it's another Lee Daniels movie who did Precious, starring Nicole Kidman and John Cusack and Matthew McConaughey.
02:00Everybody will see it really soon. It's really awesome.
02:02Hey, this is Macy Gray. You are watching Essence TV.
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