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Trigga Trey has a heart of gold.

Trey Songz just released an EP called Inevitable and all proceeds go to his charity Angels and Hearts, which urges fans to give back to their neighborhoods. 

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In the past few years, Trey has sky rocketed to the top of the R&B charts and is the reigning undisputed king of R&B. 

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In November, the 27-year-old, “Top Of The World” singer dropped two mixtapes, Anticipation 2, and LemmeHoldDatBeat2, as well as his previously mentioned EP. 

Now as one of his busiest months comes to a close, Trey sits down with GlobalGrind to discuss his EP and working while exhausted. Trey even reveals that he gets lonely, despite being in a room full of people. 

Check it out below!

When do you find time to record? You  put out two mixtapes and an EP in one month! How many songs do you have that people haven’t even heard?

A lot. I go to the studio every chance I get and even when I’m not going all the time, I do go to work. I got to go to the studio tonight to finish some stuff up and I’m exhausted. I probably shouldn’t have, but that’s how I end up with so many records. It’s just challenging myself and it’s what I love to do. It’s not like it’s a task. I actually get to go in and do what I love. I get to go make music and I get paid to do it and this is what people love me for. I couldn’t ask for anything greater, so how could I not go in the studio and make a million songs?

Speaking of what people love, you are one of the only male artists whose fans go as hard as Beyonce’s. You’re married to practically every woman in the world. How does it feel to have such dedicated fans?

To know the things that people do for the sake of our relationship, for the sake of the love they have for me … Truthfully it’s a part of me that’s very much indebted to my fans because they go so hard for me. These people dedicate a portion of their lives to a man they don’t know. When I say ‘don’t know,’ I mean they don’t physically get to interact with me. They know me through these songs, through talking to you, they know me through checking these sites out and they go out of their way to be apart of my life. So the feeling that they give me is kind of crazy man, it’s crazy.

Do you get lonely sometimes?

I think everybody gets lonely sometimes. I don’t know if people can ever understand how you can be in a room full of people and be lonely sometimes. But I keep people around me that I love, my team. CiCi is like a little sister to me, JoJo is like a brother to me, my bodyguard I’ve known since I was 13, 14 years old. So in a sense of family I got that around me. I have people that care for me like I’m family. But as far as that one thing that keeps a person together, sometimes I’m missing that as far as love is considered.

You’re giving all the proceeds of your EP Inevitable to charity. How rewarding is that for you?

Just to know that I could do that, to know that I’m financially stable enough to the point where I can give that much away. A sold out show in NYC, a show streaming on the internet $5 dollars a pop, isn’t money to sneeze at. That’s going to be a lot of money placed towards the betterment of some people’s lives, like children getting meals on the weekend, not when they’re at school. Because a lot of kids have a problem with that, kids having coats through the cold, kids that would’ve had a snotty nose because they’re cold as sh*t and their mama couldn’t afford a coat. My foundation is directed at one initiative, it’s about bettering the world. And what I look at when I see my fans and when I tour the world, I see nurses, I see teachers, I see students, I see big brothers, I see sisters, I see girls that have run in marathons for breast cancer, I see people that have gone to the soup kitchen and have volunteered their time, soldiers that if given a direction can make a better place. I’ve learned that my voice is not only made to sing with.

You just shot the video for “What I Be On” with Fabolous, what was the theme of it?

It’s a party song, talking about spending money, women and having fun. I documented that basically. I shot it documentary style. We actually would play the song from my iPod now and then. There’s only a couple real performance scenes, there’s only one scene that was made to be a performance scene. Everything else was kind of a party with the song being played.

How did you connect with Fab. You guys have done a lot a work together.

Well right around the time we did Say Ahh I did Gotta Go on his album and we weren’t really cool like that at that time, we knew each other. It was kind of a business relationship. When he jumped on “Say Ahh,” what he did for me was, it wouldn’t have come out if he didn’t get on it, because it was the day before I mastered it and it didn’t have a rapper on it. I could’ve done another singing voice but that song wouldn’t have been the same if he didn’t get on it. He came the day before the whole album got mastered and his album came out that same week. He was like, I know what it’s like to have an album out, so for him to give me that time and to really go in and get that done for me, he really held me down and I told him I owe him. From there we’ve just been working on records together and we became friends over the course of time from coming out and doing so many shows together and just doing so many songs together as well.