The article is actually much longer but I didn't feel like copy & pasting the whole thing, here is part of it though:

"R&B superstar USHER has warned those following in his footsteps to stop ripping off his style of music without acknowledging his influence. Usher's last album Confessions has proved hugely influential since its 2004 release, and the 28-year-old is all too aware people are copying his style. He tells MTV News, "You got your artists who find their way through the circuit and are following and are not giving the respect where the respect is due. "If you know (you're) following and biting, then, hey, give the respect. But if you're not, and you're creating your own thing, then you're good. You should just continue to find your own way. "Listen, this is not a game out here, man. You can't come around here and think that you're really starting the game. Understand, when I came up in the game and I found a trail, I was cool. "Bobby Brown went this way, Michael Jackson went this way, Marvin Gaye, he created his little profile and he held to it. I didn't step on those toes. "What I did was find a way and my thing and created my thing. Now you have my thing being built. So I look up, and I'm like, 'OK, I see you all. I see you all in the videos. I see you moving, I get it, but pay the respect, man.'"

http://www.mtv.com/news/a...sher.jhtml

-LMAOOOOO. WTF? HAS USHER LOST HIS MIND? He can sing and he's been very successful, but he is so damn arrogant sometimes and for what reason, I don't know.

pay homage to the godfather of sampled beats and rehashed dance moves.

its true though.. all those idiot new singers i hear on the r&b stations sound like they are copying his shit style


fuck'em all

terrible shit!

Usher aint that original though. What has he done that's so innovative? Please. This dude needs a reality check.

Hmmmmm. How can "Daddy" be home when we lost him 23 years ago? Marvin must be in Heaven PISSED for Usher lying on him

Hey Usher! It's A CLUE! Will you get it, please?

thats funny, rippin of him?



What I did was find a way and my thing and created my thing. Now you have my thing being built. So I look up, and I'm like, 'OK, I see you all. I see you all in the videos. I see you moving, I get it, but pay the respect, man.'"


please.....
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Usher needs to get off Marvin Gaye's dick. That fool ain't nobody's Daddy so he needs to go somewhere with that shit. I'm not looking forward to his what I call, "sounding like everybody else's" album whenever that dreaded day will be.

Usher is a watered down Bobby Brown

Cinnamon234 said:

Is this real?! Any of it? or is Usher being provocative to get press? I hope it's not the former because he couldn't step on those toes if he wanted to. Well, he did want to. He just couldn't.

Delusion is a fascinating thing.

anon said:

It really is. I can't believe he said Marvin Gaye "created his little profile" like wtf? Usher needs to stop.

Oh it's very real. Usher is known for his bad attitude.
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Cinnamon234 said:

1. You're right. Usher isn't exactly an original dancer himself.

BUT....

2. Too many young teenage boys of this generation are trying a little too hard to be the next Usher OR Justin Timberlake. And IMO, it's a damn shame that these kids today don't have the kind of parents or grandparents to remind them of their music history.

If nothing else, at least Usher & Justin knows something about Michael Jackson, Prince, and Bobby Brown. But the young kids today hardly have any knowledge of anyone that came before Eminen! And it shows.

ThatArticle said:

O.k., it might not be so bad. I didn't care enough to read all/any of that...just want to know if he's got something in the works. Seems he's just doing what people do in a climate where one is so quickly forgotten. It's unfortunate that he (and so many others) don't have a clue about what it is to show respect...Nor do they have an ounce of humility.

there is nothing "little" about what marvin gaye accomplished.

Cinnamon234 said:

I question how a statement as dumb as that can find it's way to press. There's so much stuff out there that everyone has to fight to be heard. If he hadn't said any of that, would we be talking about him now?

It's either Really desperate or Really Really dumb.

Cinnamon234 said:

I was gonna go into a looong rant but you summed it up with that. Well said.

Let me say this:

I'M TIRED OF THESE MUTHAFUCKAS!

I've seen interviews by Usher, Chris Brown, Omarion, Lloyd, Bow Wow and the rest of them and they are some cocky bastards. WTF
I saw an interview by Chris Brown and Bow Wow and they basically said they were the best out there. Wow, so because you're on the cover of "Right On!" you think you're the shit?! Come the fuck on!
I have respect for Usher because he's been around for nearly 15 years and still really popular(even though the first years of his career he sucked LOL), he's too damn arrogant.

What happened when artists were humble? damn.....

bboy87 said:

Right.
Why can't more artists except an award like this?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=j8u5zuToIX8

Instead, they all gotta "represent" and have this look of entitlement. Ick.

Please come back with a new hit album soon MJ...so you can teach these whack artists, how to sing, how to dance and how to accept an award with dignity.
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omg him and justin should totally hook up

they'd make such a cute bitch ass couple

bboy87 said:

but right now, bow wow and chris brown probably are the best right now considering...


I like Ushers music from the beginning to now. He's not a newcomer. He's just managed stick around.

I was just listening to "you make me wanna leave" the other day. Sorry, the arrognant asshole has made some descent r&b tracks.

Arrogance is a part of the game for most male artists.

And I'm sorry, MJ is VERY arrogant. When were male artist ever really humble in r&B, the 60's? The artists from the 80's to the present have all had their times of arrogance and thinking they are the you know what. Some grow out of it and other's don't.

anon said:

For real

what in the sam FUCK is this fool talking about???

CalhounSq said:

CalhounSq said:

Daddy's home girl...Big daddyyyyy Usher....stop frontin'...

So when will Michael Jackson warn him about biting his style.

This is nothing compared to Timbaland's interview where he says people "rip him off", and claims that what he did by stealing someone else's music isn't ripping off... The most bizarre hypocrisy I've ever heard.
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As big as Usher is, he's so under the radar for me, I take what he says with a grain of salt.

IstenSzek said:

Rhondab said:

Arrogance I like, hell, look who this site is dedicated to but saying shit like this:

Usher's dumbass said:

is not arrogance it's blatant disrespect and if he were my son, I'd slap his ass up side the head for spouting such drivel!

Rhondab said:

Basically.