And I was like, well, let's call it "9INE," and then we can do it in nine days. And then it was like, yeah, and let's do - and he was like, well, let's just do nine songs. We were both like, let's just do a duet reggae album, you know. And because we're both so busy and we're both doing a whole bunch of stuff, including our solo projects. JOHNSON: So then we just started talking, and then we started talking about how we were inspired by the compilations project to do a reggae album. So then we came to the studio to do the duet and we hadn't seen each other in what - 5, 6 years?
We were supposed to both, individually, do, like, a solo song with a producer named Kemar McGregor for his reggae compilation CD and because we were in contact with Kemar, and Kemar was like, oh, Musiq's doing a record, and he told Musiq the same, we were like, oh, then we should do a duet. MARTIN: Syleena, we are told this actually came together quite spontaneously and now - and we're used to this idea of collaborations requiring months of phone calls and checking of schedules with people, but that did not - with your people and his people - but that didn't happen in this case? Tell us how it did happen. SYLEENA JOHNSON: Thank you for having us. Welcome, thank you so much for joining us. And they are both with us now to talk more about it. MARTIN: That was "Bring Me Down" from the new album titled "9INE." That's a new calibration between R&B heavyweights Musiq Soulchild and Syleena Johnson. Switching gears now, take two highly accomplished musicians, two friends with a love of reggae, put them in the studio for nine days, what do you get? Let's listen.
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