Old TQ NEWS
News Archives (in reverse date order, i.e: Dec to Jan, 2003 to 2002...)
2003 news
News as of today, 18th December, 2003
I have added lyrics to Against the Wall and To Be Played.
To Come... More stuff as usual!
News as of today, 5th December, 2003
I have updated some pages, backgrounds and lyrics. I added We Can Smoke and some 'clean' versions to the other songs section.
I have added a tattoo page (finally!).
To Come... More stuff as usual!
News as of today, 29th November, 2003
TQ also sings in the background of two other songs on Big Tymers new album Big Money Heavyweights. The songs are 'Against the Wall' and 'To Be Played'.
To Come... More stuff as usual!
News as of today, 28th November, 2003
TQ is on Big Tymers new album Big Money Heavyweights. The song is 'We Can Smoke'. The album is in stores December 9th.
To Come... More stuff as usual!
News as of today, 26th November, 2003
Updated Gemini information page.
I've added the UK chart positions of TQ's singles and albums.
Gangsta Party was supposedly recorded for Benzino's album, not Big Tymers new one. This might never be released...
Added some more lyrics! Gangsta Party and TQ's part of I'm a Ryder...
I've now heard Angela Jones and I can say that this is the TQ I like, this song is definitely one of my favourites!
To Come... More stuff as usual!
News as of today, 21st November, 2003
Updated the videos page.
I've added a discography page which shows release dates of all singles of TQ and singles TQ has appeared on. The UK chart positions are to follow real soon!
Added some more lyrics! The Boo & Gotti interludes...
And I keep adding to Life as a Gangsta, Pop Yo Colla and Gotta Git Mine.
To Come... Updated lyrics as usual!
News as of today, 18th November, 2003
TQ is on Sarah Connor's new album, Key to my Soul. They are Love is Colour Blind, Hasta La Vista and Are You Ready to Ride?
Gemini has been put back to February 2004. This came from TQ himself.
The next single is going to be Angela Jones.
I added lyrics for the song, Angela Jones and the three new Sarah Connor songs, Love is Color Blind, Are You Ready to Ride? and Hasta La Vista.
TQ has done a song with Vishiss. It's called 'Give It To Me'.
The song will also play out prominently in the
album's radio plan and will possibly be a future single.
The song is featured in Smallville. It can be found in episode 3 of the new
Season 3. The episode is called
Extinction.
The song is played when Clark, Pete and Chloe are walking through the hall,
talking about what happened to Jake and whether or not he was affected by the
meteor rocks.
(Smallville fan here, love the show!!)
To Come... More updates!!
News as of today, 6th September, 2003
Added Lyrics for Daily (Just a Friend Remix). Can be found on the other songs page of the other lyrics section! I know it's just a remix, but it's a good one!
To Come... Hopefully some real news about Gemini's release!!
News as of today, 5th September, 2003
Okay, so it's been a long time coming! That would be an update here not Gemini! But Gemini is also a long time coming!!
So, the latest news is that Gemini might be getting released in the middle of October. Followed the week after by Big Tymers new album, Big Money Heavyweights on the 21st of October.
Boo & Gotti's album, Perfect Timing, was released on the 26th of August, so hopefully TQ will be next!
Perfect Timing track listing:
1. Perfect Timing
2. Chi-Town (feat Tateeze and Mannie Fresh)
3. Girls Be Trippin (feat Gilly)
4. Bad Chicks At The Bar (interlude feat TQ)
5. Ain't It Man (feat Lil Wayne)
6. Dear Ghetto (feat R Kelly)
7. Gangsta
8. 1 Adam 12 (feat Stone)
9. Pimp Poetry (Interlude)
10. Baby Girl (feat TQ)
11. Chicago
12. P.I.M.P. Affair (Interlude feat TQ)
13. Ride Tonight (feat Baby & Jazze Pha)
14. Think... (feat Jazze Pha)
15. 600 (feat Blakchild)
16. Hot sh!t (feat Mikkey, Baby, Lac and Stone)
17. Out Here
I've added the lyrics to Baby Girl to the Other TQ Lyrics section, which has also been updated. I have put the album covers here, so you can see what they look like, you'll have to click each album to see the lyrics.
Shade Sheist says Taxicab Confessions featuring TQ will definitely be on his new album which is due out next year. It was meant to be on his first album which was not released.
TQ is also meant to be appearing on Caz's new album, Hood Hitz, which is due out in November.
There are conflicting reports about Petey Pablo's new album, a few sites are saying it is still to be released, but you can buy it on Amazon.com right now. Amazon say it was released way back in June, however they have not got a track listing on their site. Another site says it was released in December 2002!! However, I am not sure what to think, if it's not out, reports say it will be september, or december... Take your pick, it will probably be delayed again anyway!!
Most of the album's TQ is meant to be on, keep getting delayed!! Drag On's album has been delayed again, until October 21st.
TQ might be appearing on Lil Wayne's new album, The Carter, which is due out in November.
TQ is also meant to be appearing on Juvenile's new album, Welcome To The Nolia, which is due out in November as well.
At the moment we have:-
TQ - Gemini - October 14th, 2003
Big Tymers - Big Money Heavyweights - October 21st 2003 (TQ song(s) unknown)
Drag On - Hell And Back - October 21st 2003 - (I'm A Ryder - featuring TQ &
Baby)
Caz - Hood Hitz - November (TQ song unknown)
Lil' Wayne - The Carter - 4th November 2003 (TQ song(s) unknown)
Juvenile - Welcome to the Nolia - 18th November 2003 (possibly Spendin' Mills
featuring Baby, Stone, TQ & Jay-Z)
Petey Pablo - Still Writing In My Diary: 2nd Entry - 2003 sometime! (Did You
Miss Me feat TQ & Baby)
Shade Sheist - untitled - early 2004 (Taxicab Confessions - featuring TQ)
Baby - Birdman Vol. 2 - Winter 2003 (TQ song(s) unknown)
Warren G - The G Files : Case #213 - Summer 2003 (This is unconfirmed)
Updated Gemini tracks:
Adore (Prince remake, produced by Mannie Fresh)
All The Way Mine
Don't Stop
For Life
Ghetto (featuring Lil Wayne, produced by Damizza)
I Remember (featuring Brian & Brandon Casey of Jagged Edge, produced by
Rainfall)
Keep It On The Low (featuring Baby, produced by R. Kelly)
Mr. Do Right (featuring Baby) - unconfirmed
The Doctor
V.I.P. (featuring Boo & Gotti, produced by Damizza)
Until
TQ has said his favourite is Until, and he's not too keen on Keep It On The Low!!
When asked if he had a favourite song on his album he replied: 'Until' produced by Mannie Fresh. It’s the last song on the album. It’s my testament. It says, 'Until they day I die, I’m going to hustle.' I’m going to do what I got to do to feed my family by any means necessary, like it or not. You could put that on my gravestone. That’s the truest song on the record.
To Come... Hopefully some real news about Gemini's release!!
News as of today, 26th May, 2003
Amazon.com have Petey Pablo's album, Still writing in my Diary as being released on 9th September, 2003. It seems to keep getting delayed.
So at the moment we have:-
TQ - Keep It On The Low (single)
- June 3rd, 2003
TQ - Gemini - July 15th, 2003
Boo & Gotti - Perfect Timing - July 22nd, 2003 (TQ is on Baby Girl, the 2nd
single)
Petey Pablo - Still Writing In My Diary: 2nd Entry - September 9th, 2003 (TQ
song not yet known.)
Warren G - The G Files : Case #213 - Summer 2003 (This is unconfirmed)
Drag On - Hell And Back - Fall 2003 - (I'm A Ryder - featuring TQ and Baby)
Shade Sheist - untitled - September 2003 (Taxicab Confessions - featuring TQ)
Baby - Birdman Vol. 2 - Winter 2003 (TQ song(s) unknown)
Big Tymers - untitled - Winter 2003 (TQ song(s) unknown)
Gemini
Tracks so far:
Adore (Prince remake, produced by Mannie Fresh)
All The Way Mine
For Life
Ghetto (featuring Lil Wayne, produced by Damizza)
I Remember (featuring Brian & Brandon Casey of Jagged Edge, produced by
Rainfall)
Keep It On The Low (Up In The Club) (featuring Baby, produced by R. Kelly)
Mr. Do Right (featuring Baby) - unconfirmed
V.I.P. (featuring Boo & Gotti, produced by Damizza)
Until
To Come... More stuff as usual!!
News as of today, 25th May, 2003
A couple of new interviews with TQ. One is an actual 'sound' interview at MusicSnippet.com here.
Also a new picture from this site.
Like i said before, his new pendant is a Cash Money one, you can see it better here.
He is talking on this interview about being with Epic, Clockwork, Atlantic, Cash Money, Tupac and Gemini.
He came up with Westside when he was with Atlantic. But Atlantic didn't want the song, so he went to Clockwork, when he was working on a tribute album to Tupac, late 1996, early 1997. Westside was meant to be on that album. He talks about remembering when Tupac died and how LA was when he died and it inspired him to sing Westside.
He hooked up with Cash Money after They Never Saw Me Coming. Cash Money sought out TQ when he was still with Epic, but had to wait about 3 years before signing him. He says he is now so well known being with Cash Money he can't walk down the street without being noticed!!
TQ talks about Epic and how the people who signed him to Epic were sacked and the new people who came in didn't like TQ's music or anything West Coast. They wouldn't let him leave Epic because his album was doing so well overseas. The president of Epic sat him down and told TQ he wouldn't let him go because TQ was making him money.
So it took him until 2001 to get out of Epic and into Cash Money. Cash Money were waiting for TQ to be released so they could sign him.
Russell Simmons was also very interested in TQ at that time.
He also confirms Gemini will be out in July. He says it's different from his first album and it's a traditional r'n'b album. He says he's not a rapper, no matter what everyone says!! He hangs with rappers, lives a rap life, rap is his favourite music, but r'n'b is what he is!! He's the only Cash Money r'n'b artist.
Mannie Fresh did the remake of Adore. TQ says that Mannie and Slim gave him the guidance of the sound on this album. He mentions Jazze Pha doing this album and how he also did 3 songs on They Never Saw Me Coming. Gotti got TQ working with R Kelly!
'It definitely showing the two sides of one ghetto nigga. Simple as that.' - TQ about Gemini.
Also another interview here at ballerstatus.net. There is an audio interview and the whole thing is written on this page as well. It sounds likes they have done this interview over the phone!! It's pretty much the same as the one above with a few extra bits!!
It also mentions a cash money worldwide tour. J
To Come... More stuff as usual!!
News as of today, 24th May, 2003
Happy 27th Birthday, TQ!!
To Come... More stuff as usual!!
News as of today, 23rd May, 2003
The recent new pictures of TQ, the Keep it on the Low and Gemini ads, you can see TQ's new pendant is actually a cash money one. But he's still wearing his own one as well!!
To Come... More stuff as usual!!
News as of today, 22nd May, 2003
Forgot to say yesterday, my site has made it to 10,000 hits!! thanks!!
To Come... More stuff as usual!!
News as of today, 21st May, 2003
I've changed my homepage. I've also added some jigsaws, so check them out, have some F U N!!
Keep It on The Low has
been delayed until June. Gemini has been delayed until July 15th. There is also
confirmation the album will be released overseas as, according to TQ, European
album sales were bigger than America's!!?
This is taken from
an interview at
ReactMag.com. you can read the interview
there...
Boo and Gotti's next single is called Baby Girl and it features TQ:-
Your single Ain't It Man has
been doing really well, can we expect the rest of the album to be as hot though?
(Both) AHHH, Yeah (Gotti) We got the next
single that's crazy right after that its called Baby Girl with TQ on the hook
its got the club vibe radio hit with that fiesta vibe ya feel. Then the third
single R Kelly on there titled Dear Ghetto, its crazy to. We got it all mapped
out like a book we got a album, we got four or five joints for the streets the
hustlers and thugs, three four for the woman and ladies, three for the clubs
three to five for the radio I'm talking about the album is crazy its a album.
That's what Slimm is best he is the man with that I mean how to make the album
do this that and that, then Mannie came along listened to and did the tracks
last he was like yawl got this yawl got that yawl got this yawl got that now I'm
going to give yawl this. We got big people around us and we take they advice you
know cuz they Ain't on top for nothing. So we've been blessed to have some of
the greatest people around us. Were just blessed to have big people around us R
Kelly, Irv Gotti, Ja Rule, Dupri, Cash Money, Slimm, Baby we work with the best
people in the game you know so we keep god first work hard and give it
everything we got. (taken from
Dirty South Rap)
TQ might be featured on Warren G's new album The G Files : Case # 213. More news on that when i hear it.
Look out for the Keep it on the Low video on tv soon, it has been shot in Miami.
To Come... Again more stuff!
News as of today, 11th May, 2003
Keep it on the Low has been delayed, as has Boo & Gotti's Ain't it Man. Gemini is looking at a mid/late July release.
R Kelly wrote and produced Keep it on the Low. Also check R Kelly's new one, Ignition (remix) in the UK, it's tight!! It also charts today, possible number 1?
To Come... More stuff as usual!!
News as of today, 12th April, 2003
I've updated various lyrics and have changed a few more backgrounds, eventually they will all be TQ ones.
The first single from TQ's new album Gemini will be Keep It on The Low. The single is going to be released on April 29th. I am assuming this is the USA release date...
Hopefully this will mean that the album will most likely be released in late May or early June.
To Come... More stuff!
News as of today, 11th April, 2003
I got a joint with Baby and TQ called 'I'm a Ryder,' " he continued. "Baby's expressing the things he do. 'Brand New Bentley' [is] me just expressing how I feel, how I been gone for three years and for a minute I felt as though n---as left me for dead. But I didn't dwell [on] that because I'm happy I'm back. It's just real amped. It's explaining how life is a rough ride. It's not all smooth.
I also updated my TQ new album page with an interview about it, check it out!!
To Come... More stuff!
News as of today, 9th April, 2003
Drag-On is set to release his second album, "Hell & Back" in the Summer. Appearances from DMX, Baby, TQ, Swizz Beatz, Rockwilder and many more are expected on this album. Watch out for this album later in the year.
To Come... More stuff!
News as of today, 6th April, 2003
Petey Pablo's new album, Still Writing In My Diary: 2nd Entry, unconfirmed track listing.
This album will hopefully be released 30th June 2003.
I got it
Part 2
Get on dis motorcycle
I ain't scared
Confusion
Blow your whistle
Club Banger
Did you miss me
I swear
No Matter How Hard
Roll Off
Born in the country
The Tribute
He spoke to me
Guests include: TQ and Baby, Timbaland, Bubba Sparxx
Producers include: Timbaland, Mannie Fresh, Scott Storch, Kayne West
Like i said, this is UNconfirmed shit!
To Come... More stuff!
News as of today, 10th March, 2003
Since my last update, plenty of stuff has happened! TQ is on the new Hot Boys album, the song is called Gangsta Nigga.
There has been word that TQ will
be on Petey Pablo's new album, Still Writing In My Diary: 2nd Entry.
This album will
hopefully be released 17th June 2003. I don't know a track listing as yet.
To Come... who knows!
News as of today, 6th November, 2002
Updated the video section. Added lyrics to One Day feat Layzie Bone. Also TQ looks like he will be on at least 4, maybe 5, songs on Baby's new album -Birdman.
How It Be feat. Jermaine Dupri and TQ
Hustlas, Pimps and Thugs feat. 8ball, Jazze Pha and TQ
Ice Cold feat. TQ and Jazze Pha
Keeps Spinnin feat. T.I., Petey Pablo, TQ, Mannie Fresh, Stone, Wolf, Bizzy, Gilly, Mikkey
and Ghetto Life, although TQ is NOT listed as being on it... that may mean that a different version is on the album, without TQ, or they just forgot to mention him ;-)
and it's hopefully out on the 26th november, so I may be getting a new album that day!!
(ya'll probably know that anyways ;-) )
I'm having problems uploading the 12" rub of let's get back to bed boy...
To Come... More updated lyrics and hopefully the song!
News as of today, 3rd November, 2002
I have added the lyrics for One Day featuring Layzie Bone, a couple if words missing but not many, so if you know them, let me know... (via my message board is easiest!)
I'm having a bit of trouble uploading the 12" rub of let's get back to bed boy, but hopefully very soon...
To Come... More updated lyrics, maybe a couple of pics if i sort out all the stuff on my hard drive ;-) and hopefully a song!
News as of today, 20th October, 2002.
Okay, i added Summertime feat Jay the other day, and if you read my message board, you know where to find it!! BUT it won't be there forever, so hurry and get it!!
Also, i added some lyrics, and added some of the newer songs...
I also added a videos page, just details of videos, not actual videos!!
To Come... Maybe a couple more songs... and more updated lyrics...
News as of today, 10th October, 2002.
Okay, i added Keep On the other day, and if you read my message board, you know where to find it!! BUT it won't be there forever, so hurry and get it!!
Also, i updated some lyrics, and added some of the newer songs...
And this picture... see what i mean about a DVD with TQ on it?? but i can't find it... not even at amazon...
To Come... Maybe a couple more songs... (!!) updated lyrics, maybe a new page...
News as of today, 1st October, 2002.
My site updates... This news page and a MESSAGE BOARD!!! WOO HOO, so go join...
To Come... Lyrics update and possibly an upload of some sort (!!)... more later...