Pregnant

Album: Untitled (2009)
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  • Tyrese, Robin Thicke And The-Dream are all featured on this song. Kelly told MTV News how the quartet came up with the collaboration. He explained: "The track came to me from Tyrese, my little brother. Immediately I loved it so much, I went into the studio right away and I put the track up. [I] began to write, 'Girl, you make me wanna get you pregnant.' It felt good immediately. I wanted to send the hook back to him. I knew he'd love the hook. But I said, 'Nah, let me do a verse.' I start hearing the verse. I said, 'I'm gonna do the hook and verse.'"
  • Kelly told MTV News that he had a self-imposed 20-minute time limit to write and record his part and he finished in just about 22 minutes. He then e-mailed Tyrese, who was in a separate studio, what he'd just done. "They was in the studio snappin'! I think Chris Brown was in the studio," he continued. "I heard them snapping on the phone. Tyrese said, 'Hey, cuz, write your cuz a verse.' We started laughing. I was kinda hating because I thought I wrote his verse better than I wrote mine - but it's all good. That's my boy. I sent it to him, he did his verse. I started saying, 'Man, I can make this the new 'Secret Garden.'" I wrote a verse for Robin Thicke, sent it to him - he loved it, did it. Dream is a hell of a writer, so I didn't want to even get into writing Dream's verse. I wanted Dream to be Dream. Got [the track] to Tyrese, Tyrese got it to Dream. It all came off."

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