Meet Usher V in Essence Magazine

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Usher sat down with Essence Magazine and talked about his married life, God and obviously his son, Usher Raymond V.


In the last year, you got married and you’ve had a baby. Which has changed you more?
: “They’re both linked—I can’t have one without the other. But the one thing that changed me the most is having a wife. Our child is an extension of that union.”

Why? : “Because now I represent what he is to become. He’s gonna admire me, he’s gonna look up to me. He’s gonna say, “I wanna be”—or he should say— “I wanna be like my father. I wanna be a man of valor. I wanna possess what my father has as a man.” To get married was a choice. To have a child is a responsibility.”

Does that new responsibility challenge you to make music that is more responsible? : “I started making Here I Stand before I had my son and before I was married. It was a deliberate choice to make music with substance, not just about the things that we’re accustomed to—music about being the celebrity, the player, or having the car, the girl and the bling.”


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