Mario recently left his longtime label, J records, to start an independent venture, releasing his new record, "Fireball" (named after the uber-sweet whiskey concoction) through his own Rivers Media Group.
The R&B singer explains his decisions to reroute his career in a new interview with The Breakfast Club, and later gets into his mother's recovery from her struggles with addiction, as well as some of the charity work he's involved in.
As Charlemagne and the gang tend to do, some more personal questions came about, asking about the details of the singer's year of abstinence. Check out the colorful conversation above.
