Tyrese has a new movie and new music dropping.
The multi-hyphenate entertainer shared details with HipHollywood about his role in the heist thriller “1992” and explained his fake beard that had everyone chatting on social media.
HH: Tell us what you’re working on, you must be working on something, right? Because you don’t have this look in the film.
Tyrese: I’m shooting a [music video]which is really a short film called Wildflower, which is dedicated to my mother. So a quick story. David Foster, 50 years ago, was in a singing group called Skylark. ‘So let her cry, oh she’s a lady.’ And then Newbirth, fast forward, did a remake of the Wildflower song. But David never produced it, never did anything with it. He was like, alright, you all, go ahead … and it’s now the single dedicated to my mother.
HH: We love it, you’ve got new music dropping and going on tour with your group TGT [Tank, Ginuwine, Tyrese] Is there a new album too?
Tyrese: Yes, so Beautiful Pain is my double album that’s dropping on the same day as this movie, Labor Day Weekend, Friday, August 30th. And it’s about my divorce. It’s about me finding love again, and just all of the complexities of having the best of intentions, and sometimes you just still don’t get it right. And so I think women have done a great job of venting and talking and creating communities, lunches and dinners and constant communication about their marriages, their families, their boyfriends. And us as men, when we’re struggling with stuff, we don’t really talk to nobody. And so I think what this album is going to do is it is normalizing the dialogue of us as men.
Tyrese: And we also have David Foster now, after 10 years. It’s his first time executive producing an overall album. And he also executive produced with Brandon Bamhodge, my Wildflower single dedicated to my mother. So I’m still in full costume because when I leave here, I got to go finish this short film. And it takes five hours to take all of this off my head.
HH: Why did you want to do this movie [1992]?
Tyrese: Well, if people are looking for a documentary about what happened in 1992, this is the wrong movie. This is a heist [ movie]. This is really unpacking the father-son dynamic. In this movie Antoine [Christopher A’mmanuel] is trying to figure out a way to get out of his father’s shadow because I’m an O.G, I’m a killer, been in and out of jail. Reputationally, I’m just crazy. And he’s feeling like, ‘what do I do to measure up?’ And that can make our kids and our teenagers want to go above and beyond to do something stupid because they want the hood talking about them, too. I know that sounds crazy, but it’s true. So, yeah, even with Ray Liotta , may his soul rest in peace, with his son Scott Eastwood and the other son, Dylan, same thing.
HH: You grew up in Los A Angeles, you remember that time in 1992, I’m sure quite well.
Tyrese: Yes, I was there in ’92. I was out there protesting, looting, rioting. I was scared. The military, all of the shop owners, Koreans, was up there shooting and killing us as we drove cars and broke into their stores. So it was a scary moment. And I was born into the rebellion because I’m born and raised in Watts, where the Watts riots of 1965 had Dr Martin Luther King in my city, trying to get Black folks to calm down from burning everything down because of the same thing. Police, excessive force, murder, just disposing of us like flies and looking at us like, what are you going to do about it? But I just couldn’t be more proud of this movie. They got this duality between the Black father experience versus the White father experience, all while breaking into a damn warehouse to steal 50 bars of platinum while the whole city is on fire because of a Rodney King verdict.
1992, executive produced by Snoop Dogg, Tita and Tyrese Gibson, is in theaters now.
