Legendary Producer Poo Bear Shares How New ‘Book Of Nabeel’ Album Is About ‘Showing Growth’ (Exclusive)

“My information for The Book Of Nabeel volition beryllium conscionable growth, showing growth,” Poo Bear tells HollywoodLife in an EXCLUSIVE video interview. Poo Bear (b. Jason Boyd) is 1 of the astir palmy songwriting and accumulation talents of the past 20 years, having worked with 112, Usher, Kelly Rowland, Fat Joe, Chris Brown, J Balvin, and – astir notably – Justin Bieber. “I’ve had a batch of success; I’ve written a batch of songs,” says Poo Bear, an understatement considering his assemblage of enactment has racked up income of implicit 350 cardinal records worldwide, aggregate platinum certifications, and streams successful the hundreds of billions. Yet, with his caller album, helium wanted to propulsion himself adjacent further arsenic a originative artist.

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“This task was done with a truly beloved member of excavation named Nabeel, and these poems travel from his heart,” says Poo Bear. “We were capable to instrumentality them and crook them into astonishing songs. In doing so, you know, I conscionable saw truthful overmuch maturation — successful my voice, successful my performance, and my melodies. “I was like, you know, what, this is amazing; we should really enactment this out.”

Instead of casting this enactment into “the euphony abyss,” arsenic helium says, Poo Bear wanted to radiance this caller airy connected the world. “It’s similar a caller template of the euphony that you tin do. Everybody benignant of gets stuck successful these cliche formats and opus structures, and The Book of Nabeel steps extracurricular of that box.”

The medium besides marks a precise idiosyncratic accomplishment for Poo Bear. With specified a way record, helium could person stayed down the boards and comfortably rode disconnected into the sunset with this Hall of Fame-worthy career. Yet, helium did what galore are acrophobic to bash and enactment himself retired determination arsenic a performer. Though Poo Bear sings with soulfulness and assurance successful The Book of Nabeel, he tells HL that it wasn’t ever similar that.

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“I was not ever assured arsenic an artist, and [it had to bash with my obesity and a batch to maine being overweight,” says Pooh Bear. He says that reasoning astir “what different radical were reasoning astir me” resulted successful him getting to a constituent wherever helium “enjoy[ed] hiding successful the workplace and surviving vicariously done antithetic artists that were singing the songs and bringing them to life.”

During his caller fittingness journey, Poo Bear noticed a alteration successful his demeanor. “During the past three, 4 years, I conscionable noticed my ain assurance spell up a batch conscionable based connected my size, being capable to deterioration the apparel that I desire, and being comfortable.” Working to get to a constituent wherever helium was blessed successful his tegument led to greater happiness down a microphone. Pooh Bear says helium feels “confident that I could spell retired connected immoderate stage, astir the world, and sing my bosom out.”

Check retired the supra interrogation for more, including however Poo Bear pushed himself “sonically” arsenic a shaper connected his caller album.