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Tyrese Talks to Will Smith, Quits Music for Film

Posted on March 5th, 2009 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: News, Tyrese

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After chatting it up with Willard, Tyrese has decided to “stick to the script” and be done with the quite fickle music industry:

TYRESE GIBSON is turning his back on his music career to focus on Hollywood – after a heart-to-heart with rapper-turned-actor WILL SMITH.
The Transformers hunk had success in singing and modelling before hitting the big screen, but he’s now looking to establish himself as a Hollywood A-lister after taking advice from superstar Smith.
And the talk has not only given Gibson a new perspective on his future career – he has a new leaner physique too.
He says, “I had one of the heaviest and deepest conversations with Will Smith and he said to me, ‘Tyrese, you are 29 years old, and I just turned 40… If you take this acting thing serious for the next three years it’s gonna change your life forever.’ So I shut down everything on the music side and I lost about forty six pounds training with Will Smith and his trainer Darrel Forster, and it’s just pure film focus now man.
“Everyone in music is trying to transition into Hollywood. I figure I’m here with Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg and all the other A-listers, I can’t take the situation for granted anymore, and keep doing movies and music and music and movies… going back and forth. So I just cleared out everything that’s got to do with music. I’ll totally focus on acting and see how far this takes me.”

We guess music can kiss his black ass goodbye.

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  • Christilicious

    OMG, look at the fashion…class, clean…. what’s his name (Mr host of the show from Gs to Gents) need learn from that…cuz what he calls fashion is just plain disgustiing…
    Way to go Will and Tyrese.

  • Sickofitt!

    @Christilicious so true, they both are dressed to the T.

  • Shar

    Hey, is Willard wearing a cod piece or is he just pleased to see Tyrese?

  • bronzedasian

    i think Black Ty is a great actor. And both men look great!

  • She 4 real

    Who the F cares?

  • soulwoman

    Um, this is old news. He said this over a year ago.

  • pm

    I don’t blame him movie money is paid upfront.

  • http://bossip MY BAAD

    why puff gotta have on that bright ass red leather jacket????!!!!!! WAY TO GO PUFF – nobody will miss ur beaver ass in the crowd.

  • Southern L.A. Gal

    @She 4 real

    Who the F cares?
    ____________________________
    So true. I don’t give a damn how they dress, the money, shit they have….

  • Christie’s secrets

    man, that picture of tyrese shirtless almost got me dizzy! damn baby…. he is so fine!
    i love will smith too, i would def go for a threesome with them two masculine creatures!

  • This I Know

    Instead of focusing on his “film career,” maybe he should spend more time focusing on his family life…I’m just saying…

  • http://angerischange.blogspot.com anger=change

    Christie’s secrets

    man, that picture of tyrese shirtless almost got me dizzy! damn baby…. he is so fine!
    i love will smith too, i would def go for a threesome with them two masculine creatures!

    ——————————————-

    Girl what?? The thangs I would do to that man…

  • deafjam04

    That’s great! Tyrese is a damn good actor and I could easily see him crossing over to film for good. Good for Tyrese.

  • This I Know

    Did Tyrese talk to Will about how to be a better father?

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  • joyce

    LOL, yall harsh! Will is right, however. He could have a future as a black heartthrob in Hollywood is he focuses on that and picks good scripts and directors to work with. And yeah, he needs to fix his situation at home, too.

  • I LUV RAY LEWIS

    HE’S GOOD AT BOTH!! AND DAMN SEXY ON TOP OF IT.

    FOR ADULT TOYS, EDIBLE LOTIONS, LOVER GAMES, DVDs, LINGERIE AND BODY PAINT CHECK OUT…
    WHATSYOURSECRETDESIRE.COM

  • chaka1

    OH TYRESE!
    I had to save that shirtless picture…

    *fanning myself*

  • chaka1

    I like that bulge in Will’s pants too. Yummy!

  • TheGoodGood

    I’m just glad to hear he lost some weight.. he needs to get back in shape like before.. he’s starting to look sloppy

  • TheGoodGood

    I also have to say Tyrese seems like a shady individual.. hes always hiding his life and very fishy behaviour with women.

    He spends too much money for someone with not much coming in and can’t even take care of his kids..

    Will Smith doesn’t have that baggage.. he’ll need to clean up his personal life too before thinking he can be a superstar.

  • i dont care

    what 46 pounds did he have to lose? dude has always had a great body. and although i’m one of the few and faithful to his music, i wish him luck in acting (stop taking thug roles is move #1). i’ll miss his vocals tho

  • Jersey Girl

    What music career?

  • Nih(Fellow Houstonian)

    DAMN THEY LOOK SO GOOD IN THOSE SUITS!!!! They just made me have some NASTY, NASTY thoughts LOL!!!!!!!

  • jb_1030 (No Amber Rose shoes this month)

    And this is news because?

  • Sound of Reason

    He is Fine!!!
    Yeah now is a good time for him to be the next Afro-American heart throb blockbuster.
    Will is 40 and Denzel isn’t getting any younger.
    Go For It!
    But you could still do a little music, maybe throw alittle something on the sound track, you know, get money.
    Hell, Jamie is getting his!!!!

  • 2dimplzs

    This is a boring and OLD “story” bossip.

  • mz. twinkletoez

    why ty? why?

  • mz. twinkletoez

    i heard him say he was going to take a break from music and do more acting, but i didn’t think he was serious about walking away from music for good. :(

  • candylicker

    thank goodness! Both of them look sooo good. muah!!

  • lovely one

    That sucks b/c Tyrese is really a great singer…he’s songs didnt showcase his full talent though. Wish him the best.

    He’s so sexy!

  • Wreckless Driver

    Smart move! Taking Will’s advice is a damned good move. Will’s blueprint is the one that most cats need to follow as opposed to putting out weak assed clothing lines and trying to run record labels in a age where NOBODY is even buying the product anymore. Will is the most bankable actor in the business,BLACK or WHITE! Ty is smart to realize that the record business as a whole is OVER! Get that movie studio cash and make some power moves my brother why the rest of these fools scramble around to sell 100,00 copies and end up on some pathetic VH-1 show.

  • Huh?

    I agree, good career move. I was on Billboard and the most CD’s I saw anyone sold in the top 50 was 2 or 3 million and that was from albums from over a year ago. Remember back in the late 90′s people would sell 10 million in that same amount of time. Also the music industry is a cheat because they only give people a small percentage of what they earn on a CD and with downloading no one buys singles anymore and people would rather just not buy the whole CD to just get the couple of songs they like.

  • Kigali (Birth control until marriage)

    You black females are really going to have to start looking as good as these brothers look. I mean there are black men out on the streets that are as handsome if not more handsome than the black men in Hollywood. You girls need to step your game up.

  • http://bossip.com chocolate chip

    too bad the boy can sing and he can also act- he should do both

  • DIAMONDSCHEERS

    REALLY?? DAMN! He’s 1 of the few who can actually sing…

  • scooby dubious

    black men look so smart in classic dress that it’s a shame to see them slobbing it up in those lock-up pants and nightgown T-shirts. Memo to the Brotherhood: a black man in tailored clothing is about as splendid as it gets. Give people a reason to look up to you.

  • AWWWWWWWWWWWWSHADDAAAAAP!!!!

    I’m feeling those suits. That’s my style. Black elegance.

    Who’re we kidding though. Tyrese didn’t have much of a music career to speak of. Those last two cds were duds and interest in his music has dwindled significantly. Better luck on celluloid.

  • ME ME ME

    @ MAYO

    EWWWWWW

  • Toni B

    He had no choice. I think the music industry dropped him!!!

  • Marquis de Sade

    He doesn’t have any choice, with his pending divorce and child support payments. Poor bastard should’ve underwent a vasectomy while overseas. I know they won’t do it here (in the U.S.) before a certain age, but overeas with the right amount of monetary incentive, he would’nt be going through this whole baby mama thing, since he had her sign a pre-nup.

  • http://www.thegoddess.blog-city.com The Goddess

    I heard this awhile ago and while I like Tyrese as an actor, I’m really going to miss his music. So sad!!!

  • Just Sayin

    They put his head on my body!
    I’m gonna sue!

    Dam Photothop…

  • Just Sayin

    On the real…

    That’s how it should be done.
    A brotha helpin another brotha…

    Will has knocked down a lot of barriers and someone like Tyrese can make some major dough.

    P.S. Spell Check: Photoshop :-)

  • pat

    not only a smart move but obvious….a blind man could see that after baby boy, waist deep, and transformers…that tyrese was poised to be the next action hero/ big actor if he plays his cards right..his last album sold what? 12 copies

  • J.ROCCA

    I agree that he has the potential for greatness in “Hollyweird” but it’s kinda sad that he’s giving up music especially with the state of r&b right now. Not enough cats out there singing wit the raw emotion he brings in his song.

  • jamel

    gay

  • HUstrawberry

    Somebody just put me in between them two. D*mn that’s a fantasy right there.

  • http://www.myspace.com/reinarob Reina

    I would love to see Tyrese or Black Ty whoever he wanna be on an episode of Nite Tales…

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