![]() The pared-down musical frame of “You Make Me Wanna…” – pensive flickers of harp over a darting, unsettled beat – comes as a cooling, welcome reminder that maximalism and lushness have their limits. Every now and then he’ll put out something really startling, like 2012’s “Climax”, but it seems to me that more often an Usher record is smoothly and confidently on-trend.īut what’s on-trend in R&B can be dramatic in a context like the UK charts, which hasn’t tracked black American music that closely during the Britpop years. He’s also – again, typically for his generation of stars – a highly adaptable performer. Usher fits a model for pop stardom we’ll see more frequently as we get closer to now: a teenage prodigy with material good enough to stay the distance. Que Smith, Robert McDowell, LRoc, Ludacris, and Lil Jon.Another piece of the present slots into place: if you leave out charity records, this is the first artist we’ve met to also have a Number One in the 2010s. The song was co-written by Sean Garrett, Patrick J. I played it for KP and he was the one out of everybody that was like, I think you should cut the record and don’t miss the moment.” The version that Sean Garrett recorded as a demo he sounded like Michael and I was like I don’t want to sing it like that. “I was listening to it and I was like I did not know. I want to tell this story, and I need to make sure people feel it. “I am one that has always been leery about my hit records because I am so tied to what my story is. Then he sent me the new version and that’s what the world got.”Īt first Raymond was hesitant to record the single. And he said give me 24 hours and he will turn it around. So, I hit Shakir and said your man played me, he gave me a record and he already put on another artist. “We literally in Magic City at a DJ booth and I am looking over at Keith and I like that is my song that sounds just like Freek-A-Leek. The crazy thing about the record, that nobody knows about this the original version ‘Yeah’ was ‘Freek-A-Leek,” shared Raymond. That tied the entire world into our experience, but it was there is nothing like this in the world. For the world, I was to speak to at that moment. If he didn’t bring me ‘Yeah” my album was professionally solid, but ‘Yeah’ did something else. “Shakir brought me and I am so happy to have a relationship with Shakir I really miss him. Raymond also shared that the original beat to his hit record ‘Yeah,’ because its original was the ‘Freek-A-Leek’ beat by Petey Pablo. “For the record, Usher did not like ‘You Make me Wanna,” said Dupri. Jermaine Dupri shard that Usher did not like ‘You Make me Wanna.” He, along with Snoop Dogg were asked which one of their hit records almost did not come out. During a question and answer in his ‘Usher Party’ room on the Clubhouse app. Speaking of You Make Me, it almost did not come out according to Raymond. His other hits include, Superstar, Moving Mountains, Climax, U Got It Bad, Nice & Slow, Lemme See, and You Make Me Wanna. ![]() Usher Raymond is responsible for numerous hit records such as ‘Yeah, ‘Burn,’ ‘Throwback,’ ‘Superstar,’ and ‘My Way. LOS ANGELES, CA – FEBRUARY 08: Singer Usher attends The 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards at the STAPLES Center on Februin Los Angeles, California.
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