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Quotes:
Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.
I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.
I'm 25 years old and I'm dealing with my responsibilities as a man and I'm not afraid to speak, to be realistic and talk about the issues men deal with in relationships.
If somebody steps on your shoes and ruins them, don't freak out.. get a new pair of shoes. If you miss something, don't freak out.. there's nothing you can do to change it.. just move on.
With every album, I try to better myself. I'm a perfectionist..
Hard work truly does pay off! .. I started a long time ago in hopes that this day would come, where I could be recognized for my hard work on my abs.
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Usher Biography / All about R&B star U
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Usher Raymond (born October 14, 1978) has been a popular R&B/pop musician since the early 1990s. His 2004 album Confessions sold over a million copies in the United States in its first week of release, selling the greatest amount of records in one week for any R&B artist, and has topped the album charts on both sides of the Atlantic. The first single from the album "Yeah" featuring Ludacris and Lil Jon has topped the US Billboard Hot 100, European, Australian, World, US and World R&B charts, World Adult, Norwegian, Swiss, and the UK charts in 2004, and it also reached number 2 in Canada. Usher won a Grammy Award for "Best Male R&B Vocal" in the Grammy Awards of 2001 for "U Remind Me" off his 8701 album.
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Usher Album Reviews / Discography
Albums:
Caught Up (2005)
Confessions (2004)
8701 (2001)
Live (Usher album) (1999)
Usher (1994)
My Way (1997)
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Caught Up (2005)
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Caught Up (2005)
Album Release Date: 2005 Label: Arista/BMG International Genres: R&B, Pop, Modern R&B, Quiet Storm, Hip-Hop / Soul
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Confessions (Special Edition) Review
Confessions' most detracting factor is its length. At an hour in duration, it could be stripped of five songs and be far more powerful, especially since no one would have to do any wading to get to the meaty parts. On the other side of the coin, the smartest move Usher makes here is in allowing the Lil Jon-produced "Yeah!" to take its rightful place as the only club track; any attempt at doing something stylistically similar would've failed miserably in its presence. "Yeah!"'s crunk-meets-R&B foundation, featuring an instantly addictive eight-note keyboard vamp and one of Usher's most muscular turns, is so absorbing that Ludacris' 1,500th guest verse floats by with little notice. The following "Throwback," produced by Just Blaze, sounds like it was made for the sole purpose of trailing Alicia Keys' "You Don't Know My Name." Like that hit, "Throwback"'s sensitively treated soul sample provides a nostalgic tint that complements the wistful, regret-filled tone of the lyrics. A small batch of Jam & Lewis productions, including the effortlessly gliding "Truth Hurts," continue to help raise Usher's loverman stock. Another pair -- the upbeat "Caught Up" and the aptly titled "Burn" -- also rate as some of the vocalist's best moments yet. He's been doing this for ten years now. Numerous chart hits have spun off each of his albums. Needless to say, the time is right for the phrase "just another" to be banned from use when discussing him. [Six months after its initial release, Confessions was re-released with an expanded booklet and four additional tracks, including his duet with Alicia Keys, "My Boo."] ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide
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Usher: King Me
When a man feels so confident in his ability to mesmerize crowds and listeners that he calls himself "Mr. Entertainment," he's going to be obsessively demanding about the quality of the work that bears his name. So what if his record company's wishes are the exact opposite of what he wants? If Usher Raymond isn't feeling it, your argument to get him to change his mind will have to be of the caliber of Johnnie Cochran's closing remarks during the O.J. Simpson trial.
"Have you ever met somebody who's never wrong?" Usher's mother/manager, Jonetta Patton, giggled about her son. "I can say being the mother and the manager has been really difficult. When we have our biggest problem a lot of times is because he is a perfectionist, and sometimes things don't meet up to his expectations. When he was younger it was easier, but now he's older, it's a whole lot different. I can't get mad and pick up a stick and say, 'You know what, I'm going to beat your ass.' "
Mom has been known to butt heads with Usher, as has his former label CEO, L.A. Reid, and many others. But in New York on a fall day in 2003, Usher, while a little dejected, did not put up a fight. Despite his pursuit of perfection while recording his fourth LP, Confessions, the album he turned in to his label wasn't where it needed to be. And he knew it.
Usher had set out to make a classic R&B album, a soulful project to make fans feel the same way their parents and grandparents did when they listened to a new Smokey Robinson or Sam Cooke LP. He'd recorded over 40 tracks with everyone from the Neptunes, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Jermaine Dupri and R. Kelly to his teenage brother James Lackey. Still, the label believed something was missing, and Usher's November 6, 2003 release date was pushed back like George Jefferson's hairline.
"I'll say this, going back in the studio after we had supposedly finished the record was the hardest part," Usher remembered on March 23, the day Confessions was finally released. "I had to get re-motivated. I felt like we finished the album, I'm turning it in. L.A. Reid listened to it, I listened to it, and we all just said, 'You know what, there's like one or two more records that we just gotta get.' "
"He needed a single," crunk king Lil Jon said. "They had 'Burn,' 'Burn' was hot, but they needed that first powerful monster. That's when I came in."
But their collaboration, the juggernaut "Yeah!," almost never made it into Usher's hands.
Several months before he got enlisted to work on Confessions, Jon was hired by Jive Records to make 15 beats for rapper Mystikal. Mystikal only picked a couple of tracks, which meant that the other dozen or so were freed up for Jon to sell to other artists. But there was one big problem: Unbeknownst to Jon, Jive gave one of the tracks Mystikal passed on to Petey Pablo, who also records for the label. That track turned out to be the soundscape for Pablo's big hit "Freek-A-Leek." At the same time, Jon, thinking the track was not going to be used, gave the "Freek-A-Leek" beat to Usher for the original version of "Yeah!"
"I run into Petey and he's like, "You heard the sh-- I got over your beat?' " Jon recalled. "I'm like, 'Oh sh--,' because Usher got the same beat. I try to work it with Jive that I can just do a new record for Petey because I knew this Usher record was gonna be monumental for my career."
As fate would have it, Petey wasn't about to throw away "Freek-A-Leek," especially since it was getting bumped on down South radio. So Jon had to scramble and make a new beat for Ush. The new instrumental was used for "Yeah!" as we know it today.
After all that scrambling, Arista was still on the fence about whether to run with "Yeah!" or "Burn" as the first single. Usher loved "Yeah!," but he didn't want to seem like he was following the latest trend by jumping on Lil Jon's platinum-rimmed bandwagon.
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Usher talks about Music
A melodic song will last forever. Melody is a hooker. If it's gonna get you, it will get you. Pulling the record back was a risk, but I thought, if anything, it would build anticipation.
I'm feeling that song "U Don't Have to Call."
Lyrically, this is my soul. This is what's been going on in my life in terms of relationships. There is a bit of a sensitive side on it and you'll get it, but emotionally, if you're ready for my world, this is it.
"U Remind Me." is the first single in the United States that I've had for about three years. We had a little setback with "Pop Ya Collar" in the States because of the leaking of that record. It [was decided] to pull the record back because of how it had been leaked all over the place, but we came back. I've had great success with "U Remind Me," and I look to have greater success with the rest of the album. "U Got It Bad" is the next single. "I Don't Know" has been playing in heavy rotation in clubs all over the place. "Can U Help Me" is gonna be the killa on this record, I think. "Twork It Out" is one of those records that ... give you the essence of R&B music at its best. I feel like a spokesperson, but I'm just really telling you how I feel about it.
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Usher Facts
Usher's full name: Usher Raymond IV
Birthday: October 14, 1978
Birthplace: Chattanooga, TN
Zodiac Sign: Libra
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Interviews
Usher: Unstoppable
The story's well-known by now: spotted at a 1993 talent show in his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia, fourteen-year-old Usher Raymond was a star within a year. In short order, he was working with Puff Daddy, Monica, Wyclef Jean, and too many others to name. And it just doesn't stop. His albums go gold. His live shows are sensations. He acts. He sings. He produces. He's writing a screenplay for a film that will be produced by Miramax Films -- of course, he'll star in that one.
Kind of makes ya sick, doesn't it? Or, at least, it would if the guy wasn't so damn nice about it all. Confident without being arrogant, Usher is poised for even more recognition with three (count 'em, three) movies coming out in the next year. John Gill of the MTV Radio Network recently talked with the young world-beater about movies, music, Miramax, Ed McMahon, and other aspects of a life way less ordinary.
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