Bryan Michael Cox

To this day, I have to talk to the artist.

I have to talk, what are you going through?

What do you want to talk about?

What's happening in your life?

I know something's happening.

Who you seeing?

What the nigga do?

You know what I mean?

The whole situation, I got to have the conversation because

in every situation I could point at in any songs I've been a part of, when you have the conversation, it, like, Be Without You was a conversation.

It was like, literally, we got a call from Jimmy Iovine, and Jimmy's like, I need a rhythmic record like this, right?

And I was like, okay.

what does she wanna talk about?

And it's okay, we're gonna get Mary and them on the phone.

So Mary can do Chris, we all get on the phone, and Chante, and they tell us what they want to talk about.

And we talk about it, and we literally did, I mean, I did the track, literally, you got, I mean, Be Without You, that track happened in like,

between eight to 10 minutes, because I was just trying to get the idea down.

And I called John Taylor.

I was like, yo, man, I got this idea.

Come to the studio.