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.
