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Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Usher and Son’s First Magazine Cover
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Essence magazine has scored the first official pictures of Atlanta R&B superstar Usher’s first child, Usher Raymond V.
In the article — set to hit newsstands this week — the five-time Grammy winner talks to actor/author Hill Harper about getting married, having a son, and not having a good relationship with his father, who passed at the start of this year.
Harper asks: “If you could take your finger and touch your nine-month old son, Usher V, on the head and impart some certain knowledge, what would you want him to know?
“First of all,” Usher replies, “I’d actually look inside myself and evaluate what I felt like I missed from my own father.”
“What did you miss,” Harper continues.
“Knowing that I was accepted. That I mattered. And hearing that he cared enough to put me before himself.”
As AJC readers may recall, Usher showed us some early pictures of “Cinco” — as he calls him (notice the license tag on the cover of his CD “Here I Stand”) - when he was just a month old. Pictures, he readily admitted, he shot himself. “I’m becoming a photographer,” he beamed. “Developing the pictures and everything.“
He also talked at length with the AJC, at that time, about his new responsibilities, including:
What he’s learning as a new father: “I think I’m learning how selfish I really can be as an individual. Man, before you just get up and go everyday and you work people to oblivion —- and I do. But when you have a child, it’s like, ‘Wow! All of this time now goes towards making sure that one, he has the milk that he needs. He’s being burped properly. Diapers are being changed —- and Lord knows he has let me have it! I am changing diapers!”
“The funniest thing ever was [Atlanta music mogul Jermaine Dupri] watching me change a diaper. He was like, ‘You’re officially a daddy dog.’ “
What he’s learning as a new husband: “Just to be a little more patient. Marriage is not a sprint, it’s a marathon. You have to take your time and be very patient. Sometimes you’ve got to breathe. Step away. Walk away from each other. You’ll drive each other crazy if you’re not considerate of that.”
Do you think Usher being a new husband and father has changed his music, at all? And/or how he’s received by his audience now?
