Like with “Burn,” on the first verse, when Usher left the studio he told me he wanted to make a song about a burning feeling in him, the burning feeling you get when the relationship is about to be over. Then if the artist doesn’t like the song, I haven’t wasted my time doing a whole song. Usually when I’m working with an artist like Usher, I just do the first hook and the first verse and won’t do more than that. I thought, I need to hurry up and do this. It was coming out faster than I could get it on tape, just spewing out of my mouth.
Once we had the guitar parts and the beat, what was the coolest thing I could say in a slow song that would make it sound romantic, kind of, but at the same time, cool. I thought, this seems comfortable for this artist and I should try to make the coolest slow record we could possibly make. Your hit “You Make Me Wanna,” another Usher hit, is another big collaboration.įor that song, I felt like Usher had just come off working with Devante and Jodeci on his first album, and felt like I was trying to make a ballad type of mid-tempo record. The slow process in the studio is cooperative thinking, not thinking necessarily that the first thing that comes to your mind is the song. So if I’m collaborating, I understand my role and understand the slow process in the studio. Other times I’ll come up with a concept - I’m big on the hooks - and I’ll start writing a hook and if I write the hook it automatically gives someone a chance to understand what they want to say in the verse. That process is pretty much the same every time, unless get I get the urge to write the entire song, and then the songs first flow out of me completely and then I don’t give no one else the chance to write on the song. We had a sound going for Aretha and we came together and started writing the song. When I was watching the video and thinking about the songwriters - I wrote the song with Trina Broussard and Trey Lorenz - and since it sampled Luther Vandross it had three or four other people’s names on there as writers. Yesterday we celebrated Aretha Franklin’s birthday and I posted a clip on my Instagram of one of the songs I did for her on the album. What’s the best part of writing and producing as part of a team? You’ve always been a big collaborator in your songwriting. I haven’t written anything down since I started working with JAY-Z. If you’re driving in the car, you don’t have the song lyrics in front of you but you hear a song on the radio and memorize it from that. We memorize them tone for tone, without looking at a piece of paper. And then I started realizing, it might be easier than writing it down because we all memorize the songs that we really love.
He said, “I wrote it, I just didn’t write it on paper.” I had never seen this done before. He came to the studio and I saw him do that and I was like, “What the hell was this?” And he said, “I had my rap,” and he didn’t write one thing down in the studio. It took about an hour, and the process was me saying the lyrics to him. I stopped writing lyrics down on paper after me and JAY-Z did “Money In the Bank.” They’re something I just hold in my mind. Sounds like the second song came together pretty quickly. I just had to put it in the right words that would make it fit for being Usher’s story. Those lyrics for part two were something that I had actually gone through in my life they were a reliving of a situation. There’s a part two to this story.” And immediately, as soon as Usher said there’s a part two, my brain clicked and every word of “Confessions Part II” flew out of my mouth. This is crazy.” And then Usher was like, “You can’t stop right there. Once that version of “Confessions” was finished, Usher and myself was all like, “This is it. It’s a guy feeling bad about himself, about what he had been doing to the girl, so he just came out and told her. In that song, I talked about how everything I’ve been doing is all bad. When we did “Confessions,” we really had started with another song called “All Bad” and the “Confessions” part was in parentheses. What’s the story behind the song and the sequel? Let’s talk about “Confessions” and “Confessions Part II,” both recorded by Usher. I don’t know if I’ll do it with Usher, it might be with someone else, but I believe I have the 50 million in me. That album has sold 15 million copies so far, and I was looking at that and saying, one of my idols, Quincy Jones, the first album he did with Michael Jackson did 25 million and then he did Thriller and that did 50 million. We just celebrated 14 years of Usher’s Confessions a couple days ago. I put my mind to something and was like, “This is what I’m going to do.” And at the same time I have so much music and so many songs inside of me, and I’m still that same person.
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