After scoring a Top 10 hit with the urban anthem "Westside," the first single off TQ's debut record, "They Never Saw Me Comin'," the singer is now readying a new single, "Bye Bye Baby," which takes TQ into some slightly darker territory than his sunlit hit.

The song recounts a true story from TQ's Compton past, when a friend told the singer about how he and his girlfriend had been attacked during a car-jacking. During an interview with MTV News, TQ explained what motivated him to write such a darkly personal and emotional song.

"That's a story about my homeboy," TQ said, "and he was car-jacked and his girl was shot and killed at the time. I was the first person that he talked to after it happened, and what caused me to write the song was just the rage that he was in after [the murder]. Like that girl was the one person on earth that just had his back and loved him, and he genuinely loved her. It killed him, it just killed him. It really did."

"I wrote the song," he continued, "because of the emotion he was giving off to me when he was explaining how it happened. It just came over me and I just felt the same way somehow." [28.8 RealVideo]

Due to the violent subject matter of the song, the original video for "Bye Bye Baby" had to be re-worked because of its graphic nature, but a new version of the clip is due to start surfacing in the next few weeks.

Meanwhile, TQ will be among the performers at a Def Jam Super Bowl party being held the day before the big game in Miami that will be hosted by L.L. Cool J and Brandy, and will feature performances from Method Man, Foxy Brown and Jay-Z.