Being in the Radio business for just over 10 years, I have met & interviewed A-list artists/actors, and I have had my share of D-list. Whomever it was, I always made sure I was prepared, treated them with respect, and gave a great interview (asking the questions that listeners and now viewers, wanted to know). Earlier this year, I was blessed to be able to launch Urban Informer TV which airs on Comcast Channel 25 in Baltimore City. When the artist are in town, 80% of the time, I have a chance to sit down with them.
This week, Tyrese was in town to promote his upcoming album, Open Invitation, which is in stores on November 1st. Me being a real fan of Tyrese, I went the extra step to research information to ask him questions about his music, films, books, and anything someone would want to know about him. Dealing with people you never know what you are going to get. When Tyrese first walked into the radio station (where I was going to tape today), he seemed to be in good spirits…or maybe I was wrong.
After waiting for him to finish his radio interview, we were ready to roll. Now, after reminding Tyrese that we were taping this for TELEVISION, he insited that he wanted to keep eating the chicken and have the box in front of him. From his random chicken conversations, sidebar convos during the interviews with his entourage, burping, to disresecting me by asking “so how many more questions you have”. Mind you, I wasn’t doing too much talking. We all know that Mr. Gibson can be long-winded. Being the professional that I am, I laughed (because I was in disbelief) and kept on going. In the snippet of the interview below, you can see Tyrese being very arrogant, and disrespectful. I feel as though if Tyrese was on a non-urban television show (ie The View, Good Morning America,), these actions would not have happened. So why be disrespectful on a urban television show that is trying to help you promote an album (that not too many folks know you have coming out). Watch the video below:
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http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/xlvey3
UrbanInformer.com Tyrese Interview Snippet by UrbanInformer
After I cut the interview short, my production team had to get my downtown to tape an interview with J. Cole (whom had did 2 radio interviews, an in-store, a sold out performance all while being sick, and did an interview for UI TV). I didn’t have a chance to talk to Tyrese about the disrespect but I did have a chance to air him out on the radio and Twitter. He sent the following messages to 92Q’s Online Editor @robinrazzi (she tweeted about the whole experience as I talked about it on the radio with Kiki), after his label had been notified about the incident, which it was reported that he didn’t know he did anything wrong.
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