Video: Usher, “Daddy’s Home”

We certainly need to switch careers. We need a job where all we have to do is sit around in gazillion dollar dresses getting served by butlers all day and wait for daddy to get home. Then when he gets home we just switch to lingerie and wait for gifts and sex?!??! What degree should we have gotten from college? Besides being seriously jeal of this woman that Usher’s wooing we’re also super hyped because Usher is DANCING in this video. You read that right! When’s the last time you saw Usher dance in a video… with a posse, we might add. Granted it’s a gang of acrobat models straight out of Fosse but those girls are fierce. All we’re saying is we need a man that sits in business rooms making deals during the day and then does perfect 1440 degree spins at night. It’s hard to believe after all that he’s begging the girl not to give his love away. Usher we appreciate you over here! What’s good?! – Judnick Mayard

Usher f. Grafh & Nicki Minaj, “Lil Freak (RMX)” MP3

In case you can’t find anything dirty on the internet today, Suite903 has your back. Grafh added a rather explicit verse to Usher and Nicki’s already-XXX boning anthem, and upped it to… what’s dirtier than XXX? 27 X? XXXL? NSFW? NC-35? We’re not gonna worry about it and proceed to jam it like 18 more times, because we can’t get enough of it (pause?) and that utterly banging Polow beat. Who else thinks Usher’s next album is gonna be amazing?

Download: Usher f. Grafh & Nicki Minaj, “Lil Freak (RMX)”

Video: Usher, “More”

If this video looks vaguely loose/flipcammed, it’s because it’s part of a “Body by Milk” promo program that encourages people to make their own videos (info here). It’s awesome to see Usher in such non-glossy footage, not unlike watching some of his movies. Ayo!

Usher, “There Goes My Baby”

Usher’s Raymond Vs. Raymond is well on it’s way (February 16th to be exact) and this latest offering is a swift sidestep away from the frustration of the Zaytoven-produced “Papers” and even the seed sowing mission he’s been on since declaring his Independence. Usher is, and always was (after the Puffy Daddy years of course), a lover, and “There Goes My Baby” is Usher loving from a distance. New stalker anthem, yall!

Download: Usher, “There Goes My Baby”

Trey Songz f. Keri Hilson & Usher, “Invented Sex (Remix)”

“Which TWO of yall going home with Usherrrrr?” Hey, the man’s gotta make up for lost time, right? Songz on the other hand, sounds content to play the backseat to scene stealing cameos from Ursh and Miss Keri baby who thicken up “Invented Sex” so well, we forget about that other guy that was on here.

Download: Trey Songz f. Keri Hilson & Usher, “Invented Sex (Remix)”

Usher’s Greatest Accomplishment Rarely Told

Now while some fans are still suffering the post-effects of Usher’s lackluster 2008 release…wait, wait, what was the name of that album again? Oh, that’s right, Here I Stand. Anyway, as music lovers await a “make-up” a.k.a. “apology” follow-up to the solo project, I’m still hoping to get signs of a 2002-’ish return of the “U”-chain wearing kid we all remember.

Granted, the medallion has been retired longer than Shaq’s Wal-Mart sneaker line and Tameka Foster is officially out the door, however, I still can’t help but desire to see the “old” Ush-er…remember when his buzz had you hating your classmates because he was so close to your own age and felt like he was stealing “your” girls…okay, maybe a bit too personal right there, however, it’s the Usher we all remember from going ghost (Swayze) after his ‘97 debut up through 2001 when he shocked folks with 8701 that I miss. It’s the Usher from whom no one really expected “greatness,” but came back and hit you with smash after smash after smash……”U Remind Me,” “U Got It Bad,” up through the time when Diddy discovered his “invention” of remixes collection which then sparked collaborations on tracks like “I Need A Girl.” Remember “that” guy?

Now don’t get me wrong, yes, he made a huge name for himself off of 2004’s Confessions and going “A Milli” “A Milli” in just a few days back in March ‘04 was nothing less than sttuuupiiddd sickly nice. Yes, I do remember “that” guy, but he still is a far cry from the ‘01-’02 Usher we still cherish to this day. Think about it for a minute, could you credit the 2004 success “without” having shocked the game with “8701?” Could fans have really imagined him rocking back on remixes alongside an incarcerated Shyne rapping through a phone (do your research, kiddies) or even snagging Jadakiss for that “Throwback” record without the 2001 hit record?

……………………..MOMENT OF SILENCE…………………….

Yes, it is to that regard in which I hear all the 2004 comparisons and complaints about how “Here I Am” was nothing less than a schmack in the face performance-wise and as far as content is concerned. True, I hear that, but may I retort that it all generates from the early ’00’s comeback run that we can even attribute the ‘04 success or the greatness which has become Usher? A Grammy award-winning movie star (remember The Faculty?) and tabloid exploited celebrity who was on the verge of going full metal cougar on Chilli?

So as the media attention heightens, Raymond vs. Raymond gets an early December 2009 album push-up and the legal distance (and efforts) he has placed against former wife, Tameka Foster, I leave you readers with one final impression….think back. So Jay-Z may have said, “I keep hearing Hov bring it back, I’m doing better now than before, why would I wanna do that” and we can all look at life, music or not, as growth and learning through experience…however, when all the smoke and mirrors settle down and Usher’s career is looked at closer than 2000 election votes, I only hope people can look past the numbers game and look at the true highlight of his career and why it may simply be seen as the greatest and most successful comebacks of an artist. -Cyrus Kyle Langhorne

Usher, “The Realest One”

Usher’s been known to talk about some real life sitch-eeations, but also some contrived ones so when we hear “The Realest One,” we’re not sure which side of the truth fence he’s on. Either way, it should help him find a new shawty as we’ve heard he’s now completely free to find another.

Download: Usher, “The Realest One”

Usher, “Papers”

Woahhhh. We most certainly did not expect a song by Usher called “Papers” to be about divorce papers. Making papers, spending papers, hell, even shredding papers would have come as less of a surprise than an autobiographical break up song about the mother of his child that also references the toll the relationship took on his own mother. Can’t say he didn’t try though. From yelling at camera’s on TRL to making a super boring adult contemporary album, it’s quite clear that Usher’s done all he could. Now someone get Ludacris on the phone so we can get back to partying.

Suite903 Podcast 003

1. Joy Jones – Hollywood
2. Goapele – Milk & Honey
3. Waxolutionist feat. Hygher Baby – Flashlight
4. Baatin feat. Noel Zancanella – Could It Be?
5. DJ Mitsu feat. Jose James – Promise In Love
6. DJ Jazzy Jeff feat. V – Broken Dreamz
7. M.A.R.S. (1500 or Nothin) feat. Phonte Coleman – Autumn Love Song
8. Usher feat. Pharrell – Certified
9. DJ Spinna feat. Shabaam Sahdeeq and Erik Rico – Melody
10. Chali 2na feat. Anthony Hamilton – Don’t Stop
11. Slakah The Beatchild feat. Drake – Enjoy Ya Self

Download: Suite903 Podcast 003

Download: Suite903 Podcast 003 (m4a version, chapters supported)

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