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So my man is continuing his comeback tour and the KansasCity.com has a nice lil’ interview with him where they addressed is six year absence:

“I can’t say that I missed it because I really enjoyed living a pretty average, regular life walking down the street with no Afro and no real recognition, sometimes literally going to get milk and orange juice and stuff,” he says.

But when you’ve been successful in the entertainment arena, some fans naturally wonder why anyone would walk away. Speculation occasionally swirled that there must be some unreported scandal delaying Maxwell’s re-entry, along the lines of fellow neo-soul singer Houdini D’Angelo’s woes.

“That’s what I think was the most puzzling thing for mostly the media to even understand,” says Lisa Ellis, executive vice president of Sony Music Label Group, which encompasses Maxwell’s longtime imprint, Columbia. “No, he didn’t crash. No, he didn’t gain 500 pounds. No, he didn’t have a drug problem. No, he didn’t go off the deep end. He was just living.”

“People immediately think something’s wrong,” Maxwell says with a laugh that mingles mirth and disbelief. “It blows my mind that people would think so naturally that being onstage and being in the public eye is something so great and you should be wanting to do that every day, 24 hours a day.”

Hey, I don’t care why he was wrong. You know how many times I got my groove on to Urban Hang Suite. You know everyone of my baby-making mixes has a few Maxwell songs on it. That damn Sumthin’ Sumthin’: Mellowsmoothe (Cut) from the Love Jones Soundrack will get it poppin’ every time. I’m so excited about the new CD Black which (hopefully) will be out in early 2009.

I don’t buy CD’s too often these days, but best believe I will buying this one. How could I not? As much as I can’t stand Stephen Hill you got to give him credit for getting Maxwell back on stage with the tribute to Al Green and for haiving BET sponsor the current tour:

“When he walked out, the united gasp intake of air in the room was just stunning to hear,” says BET’s Hill, who hoped that coaxing Maxwell back onto a stage would give him a friendly kick in the pants. Apparently, it worked, and the network is sponsoring the current tour. “I just wanted to get him in front of people again and quite frankly, as a fan and a friend, remind everybody how much we loved him and remind him how much everybody loved him.”

Well, thank you BET. You actually did something right for a change.