“So why not create something positive? Why dwell on ‘She did that’ or ‘He did this’ or this went wrong. “You are going to create something in your life whether it’s good, bad or in the middle,” he says. With a renewed opportunity to make music and a now second chance to become a better man, partner and father, Jennings says he hopes to make the best of it all. We’re going to drag you until the sparks come off you.” I guess they felt like ‘Wow, you had all of this.’ Some cats were doing all this time and they had no other means to get by. I learned a lot in prison,” he laughs.ĭid his celebrity allow him any favorable treatment when he was incarcerated? Quite the opposite, Jennings says. In 2013 he appeared on Yelawolfs mixtape Wyte Dawg and released his nine-track album I Am Struggle.After being released from prison in 2016, Harness released Return of the Outlaw EP via Slumerican. On his song “Like College” Jennings deals with relationships as learning experiences and dishes out some worthwhile advice. Harness was incarcerated on drug-related charges in 2011. In his hometown of Toledo, Ohio he formed a teen singing group. “That’s all we had to do, besides cutting people’s grass,” he says. Born as Chester Jennings on June 3, 1978, he already had a vision of life since his youth. And if we don’t address the bad stuff, we don’t know what we’ve got to work on.” Lyfe said that he did write while in jail. Not just the good stuff because listen, good stuff doesn’t happen all the time. “When I do an album, I want to touch on every emotion.
You want all those warnings you told them to really happen so you can say ‘I told you so.’īut there are more conciliatory songs on the new CD, like “I Am” which acknowledges that a new outlook can change a life, even one that has spiraled out of control. “A lot of times when you break up we say the politically correct thing ‘I want you to be happy, I hope your kids grow up to look just like you’ – that ain’t what you mean. He’s just expressing the raw feelings of someone dealing with a breakup. He has a song called “I Wish” where he admits that he wishes a former love would “get hit by a truck.” Maybe this whole positive outlook thing needs some work? But he remains painfully honest in his music. Propelled by his hit single “Must Be Nice” and his electrifying stage shows, Jennings became a star.īut an altercation with his children’s mother, Joy Bounds, led to a police chase and sent Jennings back to jail in 2010 to serve two more years. His first album title, “268-192,” was taken from his inmate number. That earned him a record deal soon after he was released from prison after serving ten years for arson. Jennings, now 40, is a Cleveland native who came to the attention of the public through several winning appearances at the Apollo talent competition. That’s why the album is called ‘Lucid’ because now I always think ‘What do I want to get out of this situation?’ So many times we just act instead of react, instead of thinking ‘What do I want to get out of this situation’ and then act. I had a little situation but that was the last time. I’m sure it’s no secret I had a lot of ups and downs,” Lyfe told the Tom Joyner Morning Show. He says his fifth recording “Lucid,” comes from that more positive outlook. Jennings left the scene in his 2005 Corvette driving in excess of 70 mph.Įven before today’s twitter post, there were suggestions that his album “I Still Believe”” was to be his last.Singer/songwriter Lyfe Jennings is now in a good place. The alleged 2008 event reportedly involved a dispute with his baby mama, Joy Pound. Amen from a man… Smile, its contageous:)” But one thing I am sure of is God gives and takes away in measure.
I would like to think that I’ve changed lives by changing my own, though I can’t be sure. I’ve lived a hundred lives in these 6 yrs so I not only won’t, I don’t have the right to complain. I didn’t sugarcoat a word didn’t hold back a single syllable of my life from y’all. All I can say in parting is that I have been honest with ya’ll]. I have had a fabulous career because of you. To everyone who gave me a chance I am forever in your debt. He was booked with felony weapon possession by a convicted felon, attempting to elude, discharging of a firearm near a public highway, and refusing to take the sobriety test.įollowing the sentencing in an Atlanta court today, Jennings posted the following message to twitter. During a police pursuit, Jennings crashed his car. In October 2008, Jennings was arrested for firearm chargers.
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