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Usher: 'The Challenge Is Having It All' | Usher

Usher: 'The Challenge Is Having It All'

Originally posted 05/29/2008 01:50PM

Usher has been no stranger to the rumor mill in the last several years, and the singer is finally opening up about his controversial marriage, fatherhood and his decision to let his mother go as his manager days before Mother's Day 2007 in the July issue of Vibe.

"My mother is an aggressive person. She makes hard decisions, and she caused me to make a hard decision as well," the Grammy winner tells the magazine in its July cover story.

But Usher, 29, refuses to characterize the split with Jonnetta Patton after 15 years of managing him as a firing. Instead, he says he paid her "the ultimate compliment – to retire her to be a full-time grandmother. My mother and I decided to change her situation. There was a conversation. I didn't write her a letter or pink slip her."

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Jay-Z, Usher Sing About Joys of Marriage

Jay-Z, Usher Sing About Joys of Marriage

Originally posted 05/21/2008 02:45PM

Jay-Z and Usher have recorded a new song together, "Best Thing" – an ode to their new status as married men.

"Of course, with the talk of both of us now being newlyweds, there is a question as to why, and is it real?" Usher told MTV Base of the song, which is produced by Janet Jackson's beau Jermaine Dupri. "Well, if you hear that [song], you'll understand what [Jay-Z] meant when he says, 'Seeds becomes plants/ Boys become men/ You've got to grow up, not down.' "

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Usher & Tameka Talk About Their 'True Love' | Usher Raymond

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Usher and Tameka Foster Talk About Their 'True Love'

Originally posted 10/15/2007 11:50AM

Usher and his new wife, Tameka Foster, say they were taken aback by all the rumors that swirled about their relationship this summer – but in the end, it made them stronger as a couple.

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