{"id":2210426,"date":"2025-12-23T23:31:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2210426"},"modified":"2025-12-23T23:31:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:31:05","slug":"princeton-perez-on-his-fanbase-new-era-prince-biopic-ambitions-and-mindless-behavior-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/princeton-perez-on-his-fanbase-new-era-prince-biopic-ambitions-and-mindless-behavior-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Princeton Perez On His Fanbase, New Era, Prince Biopic Ambitions And \u2018Mindless Behavior\u2019 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-v-5fe7d579=\"\">\n<p>Princeton Perez is entering a new era \u2014 one shaped by hard-earned freedom, emotional honesty, and a passion for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blavity.com\/uncle-waffles-amapiano-artists-tyla-focalistic-dbn-gogo\">dance music<\/a>. The <em>Lost in a Daze<\/em> EP is a departure from what fans may expect, but for Perez, it\u2019s his most personal project yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, my God, the inspiration behind the <em>Lost in a Daze<\/em> EP \u2014 I was at a place where, in my personal life, I felt confused on who to trust and where to go,\u201d he said in a recent interview with Blavity. \u201cThen in my professional life, I felt the same way. I was having this battle with myself because I wanted to really show who I was through my art, but then I had all these preconceived notions. Then my personal life, I also was dealing with betrayal and dishonesty. I just was really lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He found clarity through nature \u2014 and solitude. \u201cI\u2019m from LA, and I started going to the sunsets and just taking a little break and breathing. It was something about being in that atmosphere, listening to the music that I like, and imagining how I would be as an artist \u2014 that was really inspiring. I took the sunset as the first jump-off of this whole era\u2026 whatever that energy was gave me peace. It motivated me. It made me feel like nothing else mattered but me in this moment. I just wanted to put that into some music.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-returning-to-his-roots-through-dance-music\">Returning to his roots through dance music<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always been a fan of house music. I\u2019ve always loved dance music, house music, my whole life,\u201d he said when talking about the sound of his new project. \u201cI think being in an R&amp;B group, you tend to stick to what the fans want, what the team wants. While I\u2019m at the gym, I\u2019m listening to who I\u2019m listening to, and I\u2019m imagining my music.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Princeton Perez - All To Myself (Performance) 2025  \" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M24a2bYsAzM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>That imagination took shape when he started going out more and finding joy in the music that moved him. \u201cI felt like I started dating later on in my life, so with that came going out and going to festivals. I just started experiencing different artists who were my age and were making the music that I wanted, and I just completely dove deep into that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cWhen I was really sad and when I was really heartbroken or I felt lost, putting on some house music made me want to dance again. That\u2019s also the core of who I am. Before all the music, I\u2019m a dancer first. Whatever makes me want to get up and dance is what healed me, and it inspired these projects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Perez, <em>Lost in a Daze<\/em> wasn\u2019t just another release \u2014 it was a personal pivot. \u201cI think just life happened. I needed to really meet people. I needed to experience everything that I experienced,\u201d he said. \u201cI needed time to just honestly get comfortable with the feeling of saying, \u2018You know what? F what everybody thinks.\u2019 That sometimes takes somebody a cool minute. As somebody who grew up in the industry and was a people pleaser, the last thing I would ever want to do is piss people off. I felt like me showcasing the fashion that I like or me showcasing the music that I like and just how I want to put that in my music \u2014 I would lose fans doing that, and that just really scared me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cYou get to a point when people in your personal life are just walking away, and you find yourself in a place where you\u2019re like, \u2018You know what? F it. I\u2019m just going to put myself forward.\u2019 Just time, really. I think right now is the best time, too. I feel like I\u2019ve experienced enough life to put into my art.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-letting-go-of-the-past-and-reclaiming-identity\">Letting go of the past \u2014 and reclaiming identity<\/h2>\n<p>Perez also reflected on how modeling and acting helped him rediscover his self-image. \u201cEven some of the other career moves that I made with modeling and with acting \u2014 I was able to really discover myself through that and put that into my music, especially with my look,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the longest, the first thing I did after the group was cut all my hair off, because I felt like having long hair was the brand that they built, and I wanted to separate myself from that. It was always a fear if my hair looked a little too similar. Then I started modeling, I started booking gigs, and they wanted my hair out, and they started styling my look a little different. Then it gave me my confidence back, and then I was able to put it into my music. Yeah, it was just time \u2014 an experience for me to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to being remembered for his time in Mindless Behavior, he said his relationship with that chapter has shifted. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, I\u2019ve learned to just surrender to it,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve been through so many different phases of that \u2014 being like, \u2018I don\u2019t want no one to ever think I\u2019m associated with that group.\u2019 Then, when the group first ended, I was like, \u2018No, I\u2019m proud to be in this. I\u2019m coming from this.\u2019 Then now it\u2019s like this nostalgia feeling, which I\u2019m not the biggest fan of. It\u2019s like, \u2018Ah, this is weird.\u2019 I\u2019ve just learned to surrender it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust from my own mental, I think right now my goal is to really just showcase who I really am through my art, because there\u2019s Princeton and then there\u2019s Jacob. For the longest, it was like Princeton was one person, Jacob is one person \u2014 keep it there. I don\u2019t know, the more comfortable that I am with myself, I think that I want to just showcase Jacob through Princeton a lot more. That\u2019s really just my own focus. Whatever people want to take from that is where people want to take it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also aware of what his old group means to a generation. \u201cIt\u2019s so crazy to me because I think being in it, for me personally, I knew we were a success story and we were big, but it isn\u2019t until the older I get and I see people that I look up to \u2014 actors that I watch, musicians that I like \u2014 and they\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, my God, you were my first concert, my first celebrity crush.\u2019 It really puts everything into perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cWe were so sheltered from everything that\u2026 I mean, for the longest, we didn\u2019t have social media. Our manager controlled all of that. We only saw each other, the hotel, and the stage for so long that, once the peak of everything was going on to the next, that\u2019s when the rise of Instagram was coming around. We were in that weird space where people were still doing music video,s and there was still <em>106 &amp; Park<\/em>, but also, Vine and Instagram were being created. The nostalgia is so crazy. It\u2019s cool to know. Just for me personally, it\u2019s so dope to know that Black culture got affected by it, because that\u2019s so much of who I am. Just to see people grow up \u2014 and we were a positive group \u2014 so it\u2019s fun. I love it. A friend of mine was like, \u2018You know what? If they\u2019re going to remember you from something, just be thankful they remember you from something that was successful and winning.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018You\u2019re right. Yeah, there\u2019s nothing to run away from there.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-his-deepest-influence\">His deepest influence<\/h2>\n<p>Prince remains a creative North Star. A few years ago, he said he\u2019d like to portray him in a biopic, and that is still a goal. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think growing up, I had this weird obsession with artists who submerged themselves into their work,\u201d he said. \u201cThey didn\u2019t care what was happening. They would eat and sleep their art. I don\u2019t know what it was. Maybe because it felt so dramatic. I thought it was so cool. He was the first artist besides John Lennon that I would just study and go, \u2018Wow, he really wakes up, and he puts us onto this,\u2019 and that\u2019s the type of artist that I\u2019ve always wanted to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cHe\u2019s opened up doors for artists like me who want to be able to tap into the androgynous side and the pretty side and be able to balance both. I just have looked up to him so much. He passed on my birthday. He passed on April 21st, on my 20th birthday. I just know that I could do it justice, but you know what? It\u2019s in God\u2019s hands. I put it in the air. I love Prince so much. I\u2019m the biggest fan of\u2026 I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s a genre\u2026 but men of that caliber \u2014 Lenny Kravitz, Jimi Hendrix, Freddie Mercury, Michael, Prince \u2014 all the men that weren\u2019t afraid to dress the way they want and make the music that they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full interview below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/players\/64F961ta-Sd1QrBmn.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" title=\"Princeton Perez On His New Project And More\" style=\"position:absolute;\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source blavity.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Princeton Perez is entering a new era \u2014 one shaped by hard-earned freedom, emotional honesty, and a passion for dance music. 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