Miguel on j-hope Collab, ‘Sure Thing’ Going Viral, New Music & More | Billboard News in Conversation  

Miguel is celebrating 15 years of All I Want Is You. The singer shares stories about some of his favorite tracks on the album, his experience working with J. Cole on “Power Trip” and their friendship, the re-emergence of “Sure Thing” among the younger generation, collaborating with j-hope on “Sweet Dreams,” how he plans to incorporate his roots into his new music and more!

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Carl Lamarre:
Yo, what’s going on? Y’all I’m deputy director of R&B and hip-hop, Mr. Carl Lamarre, and welcome to Billboard News In Conversation. We got a Grammy Award winner, R&B heavyweight, Mr. Miguel. My brother, how are you feeling? 

Miguel:
I’m all right, man. How are you doing? 

It’s a blessed day. It is a blessed day because we’re gonna do something special here. One of your albums has a special anniversary this year. All I Want Is You 15. What did that number mean to you? Because that’s a whole ninth-grade album I was telling you before. 

It’s a journey, you know, you think about, you know how much time it took to get that album out, right? You know, on what it took to get there, just in terms of cycles and growth and challenges and failures and learning experiences, and then to kind of have all of the blessings in between that point and this point in my career. It’s beautiful. This is a trip, man.

Walk us back to when you met, of course, the big homie record, exact extraordinaire, Mark Pitts, because you played them some records, which I saw was originally meant for Usher and that dude was like, “Uh uh, we gonna keep this. We gonna keep Miguel. We gonna build.” Talk about that. 

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