Lovers and Old Friends.
Please tell your lovers and friends that Usher, Jon and Luda had to do it again. Usher has two of the biggest new tracks out in R&B right now. What is it 2004 again like your college days or Summer Walker coming 'thru' with the guest feature and 'You Make Me Wanna' sample doing it Raymond's way? Yeah! It may as well be as we don't even know what day it is as we can't even leave the house right now. So hold on when it comes to making 'Love In This Club' for a man who even has a track called 'Stay At Home' with Future (on the 'A' of his classic Jay Electronica and Jay-Z like partnership album with Zaytoven)...but for all sorts of different reasons. Like R&B King Tanks tweets 'While You Wait', "Usher is about to put R&B back in the clubs". But still stay in your place and stay safe during this quarantine in this time of corona. Yet I have a confession to make like Part II. There's nothing like nostalgia. And this new Usher is showing me like a cinema seat to one at home for a Spotify 'Best Of' playlist like the date was '8701' (yes I got it bad. No need to remind me. You don't know? Just pop ya collar. You'll t'work it out. This man has more hits than John Wick. Just listen to the first five of that album. No one's done that since outside the 'Hot Fuss' of the Las Vegas high rolling The Killers), or a 'Raymond V Raymond' face off like all the D.J.'s are doing right now, live streaming from home for the fans. Just like his fellow ATLien prolific producer, our man Jermaine Dupri. OMG like will.I.am. The 'Instructions' on hallmark hand for the first 'Don't Waste My Time' track featuring Ella Mai...which won't do. Even if you end up dancing to it all night like club 112, 'Dance With Me'.
But "if you're sexy and you know it clap your hands". Because this really is like these college dropout days like Kanye in 2004. WAKE UP MR. WEST! Jesus walks, is king and the crown of R&B takes his throne again like slow jams or 04's 'Truth Tour'. It was these turntables versus battles that's started this whole thing off when Lil Jon and T-Pain took each other on for our quarantined entertainment...WHAT?! I said it was these turntables versus battles that started this whole thing off when Lil Jon and T-Pain took each other on for our quarantined entertainment...OKAY?! And peace up, A town, just when it looked like an all love, mutual friend tie, Jon dropped a new record with Ush-er and Luda like WHAT?! Take that and rewind it back. LET'S GO! As these three king's of the ATL reunited and got back together like Jagged Edge, teaming up like the Hawks or Falcons to really fly. Third times the big charm from this big three that never really left the club like Jon's signature sonic sound and shouts that clapped like Ludacris famous outro after one of his trademark highlighting raps (remember when you'd be scratching over the entirety of the record in anticipation for one of Luda's legendary 16's? What rapper makes you do that now?) to the neon strobed video with all of the lights. But come on, tell me you don't think of Kevin James dancing with Will Smith in 'Hitch' when you hear 'Yeah'! The Q-Tip... the Q-Tip. No need to make pizza...they've got food there. And we all know the beautiful ballad of a synthed sequel that slowed it down for all your 'Lovers and Friends' with Ush's velvet, best yet verse that is swagger singing personified in the zone (peep the behind the studio scenes of Usher feeling and writing this track late at night, "oh I'm on first? Let me at 'em") from Usher's 'Confessions', one week, a million and change, diamond seller to Lil Jon's platinum 'Crunk Juice' pimp cup of grill bling. So to be fair this should be on the punchline legend Luda's next project, as the 'Fast and Furious' star pedal to the metal raps, "SexBeat turn it up loud till I blow my speakers/Get lower than my subwoofers or high as my tweeters/My diva eat you up like you my gourmet chocolate Godiver". Showing no signs of stopping like their 'Red Light' and crazy kinetic 'Dat Girl' B-side and cutting room floor jam (how was that not a number one single like 'Good Kisser' was left off an actual album?) other collabos like 'She Don't Know'. VROOM!
808 kick drum check. But if you want to be welcomed back to Atlanta, then it's all about Ludacris and Jermaine Dupri. Or should we say Usher and Mr. J.D.? It's not just about the holy trinity of the Raymond all the girls love, Chris 'Tej' Bridges and the ultimate hype man Dave Chappelle's show immortalised. YEAAAH! On the ones and twos for the music Hollywood video who's who, spot the celebrity, epic house party with comedian Jamie Kennedy playing Fonzworth Bentley like 'I Need A Girl' Part 1 or Diddy's Hilton's which feels like somewhere in Brazil or Italy-even if it is Cali (Chef Snoop preparing the food with Salt Bae finishing touches)-which we all wish even more that we could have right now. But this summer hot single this spring set for the season, featuring 'Trip' singer Ella Mai (referencing the Jon and Luda aforementioned 'Lovers and Friends') was already scorching hot before the 'SexBeat' bomb was dropped. And as Usher baby sings, "I'm glad you made (You made)/Intoxicate/Your vibe's amazing/Feel the love in the air, baby, you know (You know, you know)/In a rush, we be letting the time go/You're gonna have to show me now" to begin this song inspired by Hi-Five's 90's baby hit 'I Like The Way (The Kissing Game)' y'all know what it is like So, So Def. As Jermaine and his Jackson 5 legendary like production partnership on a Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis scale tip, Bryan-Michael Cox bring that smooth sound to add depth of soul to the mainstream and chart topping and toe tapping hits. It's that 'Emancipation' form that brought the Mimi out of Mariah Carey until she mined a diamond and wanted nothing more for Christmas and even made Usher admit some hard truths. And after some decent albums over the last couple ('Looking 4 Myself'/'Hard II Love'), Mr. Raymond has more to confess too. As the sequel to his and Durpi's magnum opus of break-up ballads, 'Confessions 2' is set to come in the 2020 that could still be the new roaring twenties once we rage against COVID-19 together. Reuniting like we all hope to this calendar this is one sophomore set that won't slump. How about a part IV? Because what's entering the confessions booth without the counsel of Lil Jon and the two men who welcomed you too Atlanta 2 with Diddy and Snoop? The A is about to be a capital again. And Usher is going to show us the way. Especially in a time were everyone from his boo Alicia Keys, to Lady Gaga and Haim have pushed back and put their highly anticipated albums of the year on indefinite hold. You wait all decade for a hot new Usher record and two come along at once like the bus. Pushing it to the limit, giving more. Smoke that victory party cigar King. Once this quarantine is over he's going to have everyone running to the clubs screaming like Jennifer Lopez's 'Hustlers' round the block after his cameo on the double. Yeah man. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
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