- Title: Singer Jay Sean calls his departure from Cash Money Records, civil
- Date: 2nd August 2016
- Summary: SEAN PERFORMING
- Embargoed: 17th August 2016 17:10
- Keywords: Jay Sean Cash Money records label You Make My Love Go singer music single
- Location: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES / UNKNOWN FILM LOCATIONS
- City: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES / UNKNOWN FILM LOCATIONS
- Country: USA
- Reuters ID: LVA00C4TFOVGT
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Singer Jay Sean wants you to know he is back and ready to make you party again after a three year unintentional hiatus.
"I do understand that in this day and age if you disappear for too long - first of all, people think you actually died, no, they will. People will think, 'I haven't heard his song on radio for a few years, he must be dead," said the singer in New York City on Monday (August 01).
After five years with Cash Money Records, where his label mates included Lil Wayne and Drake, Sean parted ways after a lengthy legal dispute that left him silent in more ways than one.
"I could not talk about it. I was in a deal which I was trying to get out of, I was trying to sign to a new deal. There's a lot of things we can't talk about, legally. So I couldn't say to my fans, in interviews what's going on. All I could keep saying was, it's coming, it's coming and hope that my fans understand."
Now signed to Sony, the British native called the split civil and said there is no bad blood between him and label co-founder Bryan 'Birdman' Williams.
"I don't like to hold grudges, I don't like to talk ill of people. If I can somehow make things a way that we can both go, 'hey listen, it was great while it latest, but things changed, let's leave it at that.' So it's good, we're ok."
For his first release, "Make My Love Go," Sean returned to the things he was most familiar with, pop, r&b, dancehall and rapper Sean Paul.
"What I think I wanted to achieve with this song was, to make people feel good, which is I think what I'm really known for with my music. People always tell me, when I want to get in the mood of a party or when I'm at a party and they put a Jay Sean song on I feel happy. And that's always a nice thing to be known for. And so I thought, let's hit them up with something like that."
At this point in Sean's career the singer is all about pleasing himself and fans with his music.
"I think really what's important for me at this stage in my career is to be able to do - and I think, without sounding arrogant, I think I've earned that right. To be able to say, 'listen, this is what I do, if you want this go to that artist, I'm ok.' I don't want to be a second rate version of that artist, he already exists, he already is number one of that. I don't want to be a second rate version of him, I'm the best version of me."
At one point the single reached the top 10 on Germany music charts, reached platinum status in the Netherlands and have over 38 million plays worldwide on Spotify. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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