NEW YORK — Sometimes the simple things in life provide the most pleasure, especially when you're a budding superstar.

On Wednesday, Mario, who has been traveling across the country getting the word out about his self-titled debut, said that in his new video for "Braid My Hair" he'll be showing how he finds some escape: All he needs is a comb and a little hair grease.

"We about to do the video next week [in Los Angeles]," the Baltimore singer revealed. "It's basically just the storyline of the song. About me on the road every day, doing my thing and me just needing to get some time to myself. All I want to do is go home and let my girl braid my hair."

While Mario said that he's going to be staying on his musical grind away from home, he won't be doing it as part of the Nellyville tour, a deal that had been in the works (see "Nelly Making It Hot In Herre And Therre With Fall U.S. Tour").

"Right now I'm just doing promotions," he explained. "But after that we might be doing a tour at the top of the year."

Before 2002 is over, however, Mario said he wants to hit the studio.

"We about to start on the next album, probably in December," he said. "We'll probably have some [guests] on the album, but you all just stay tuned."