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The 10 Best Usher Songs Of All Time


If Usher's Super Bowl halftime show is a rundown of his best tracks, we're hopeful they will include the all-time greatest hits of Usher Raymond IV.

With Jermaine Dupri and Manuel Seal in the driver’s seat on production, Usher glides across the percolating instrumental, setting the precedent that he’s a woman-stealing paramour—something that recurs later in his career on “U Don’t Have to Call.” To see Usher work with Diplo and Ariel Rechtshaid at a time when they had peak outré cred was a brilliant creative mood, and together they confected a song that reflects back on what its title suggests. Enter “Confessions Part II,” a mid-tempo ballad directly inspired by Dupri’s experience of a love triangle gone wrong, where he impregnated a side chick and was slapped with the reality of having to explain the situation to his main girl.

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