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Perhaps the signee list was a bit overcrowded, especially with Drake steering the singer-slash-rapper movement. Although acclaimed for his singing abilities, Lloyd possess a knack for the lyrical arts. He attributes those skills to purely wanting to connect with his peers in his younger days.

“Elementary though the beginning of high school I went to a performing arts school and it was pretty private,” Lloyd begins. “Then I took myself out so I could go to public school because I wanted to know what it was like to go to school with all my friends. I wanted to be like everyone else, I didn’t want people to know that I could sing so I would just rap, let people hear me freestyle.”

Lloyd’s multi-faceted talents have certainly merited some noted accomplishments. Doing remixes with Patti Labelle, holding a #1 video for 60 days on BET’s 106 & Park, and of them most celebrated, bringing Andre 3000 and Nas together on his “You” remix.

“I knew Andre and then I knew Nas and I just thought it would be cool to have one of my favorite rappers from the north and one of my favorite rappers from the south on one track together for the first time. They didn’t know each other would be featured until I put it all together. They loved it.”

 “You (Remix)”

The R&B crooner also acknowledges the sacrifices he withstood in order to make those things happen.

The most important things that I’ve had to sacrifice are my wants. Just whatever I want at the time. Whether it be getting drunk and smoke weed when I want to. Just basically be reckless, which is something I want to do sometimes is go crazy but for the better of the album for the better of the movement sometimes you have to take yourself out of your personal space and not be so selfish.” After giving it some though, he adds “To sum it up, I think the biggest sacrifice was to stop smoking weed.”

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