After a huge success with his first single OMG in is album Raymond V Raymond, Usher is a ”must” in today’s nightlife music list. Now, he’s bringing a new single from his next album Versus. In a short amount of time after the released of this single to iTunes on July 13 and the music video on August 25th, this hit song, DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love, became the fourth highest debut on the Billboard Hot 100 of his career, behind 1997′s Nice & Slow at number nine, 1998′s My Way at eight, and 2010′s OMG at number fourteen. Of course with Pitbull’s featuring, this song will keep his position on the charts for a while since the same thing is happening with Enrique’s new single I Like It. Is Pitbull becoming the new secret ingredient for today’s hit? We’ll see.

Usher’s new album Versus is in stores now.

Alright, so this collaboration was announced a little while ago and I was really wondering how it would end up. Hov and Usher goes in on a The Pollow Da Don produced song and will be appearing on Usher’s upcoming EP, Versus. This is also supposed to be the unfinished version of the song as there is talk that Ciara is set to take Ester Dean’s place on the final version that will be on the EP itself.

Versus is set to drop on August 24th.

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download : Usher – Hot Toddy ft. Jay-Z & Ester Dean

Usher links up with Young Money lady in charge Nicki Minaj for the official videoclip for his latest single Lil’ Freak produced by Polow Da Don that can be found on his upcoming album Raymond vs. Raymond which I thought was already out for some reason, but it’s actually set to drop next Tuesday via Sony Music…

While people are saying that Usher will never be able to top what he achieved with Confessions, With his recent divorce, Usher has told in an interview that his upcoming album will be “racy, risky and edgy, and sometimes about personal experiences.” pretty much everything that made Confessions such a blockbuster album to begin with where he was going through the same personal experiences as it dealt with his high-profile break-up with Chilli of TLC.

download : Usher – Lil’ Freak ft. Nicki Minaj

Using the same idea T.I. used back in 2007 with his T.I vs T.I.P gimmick or more recently, Bobby Ray vs B.o.B., Usher came out with an album named Raymond vs Raymond. Now I know both of the names are the same, so it’s sorta hard to distinguished the difference between the two or not, and to be honest, I’m pretty sure he’s not using the whole different persona card as from what I heard from the album so far (this song and the two previous singles released), everything sounds fairly Usher-y.

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download : Usher – Guilty ft. T.I.
previously : T.I. – I’m Back (Prod. by TrackSlayerz)

Not only does Drake gets whiter by the minute, but he’s also in, virtually, every hip-hop videos that are being released lately. Here he takes part of DJ Khaled single, Fed Up alongside Usher, Young Jeezy & Rick Ross which is part of Khaled latest album.

download : DJ Khaled – Fed Up ft. Usher, Young Jeezy, Rick Ross & Drake

Alright, so this song came out a couple of weeks ago, but here’s a finalized version of it with Khaled adding a verse of Weezy to the mix. I guess the whole Out There Griding beef was squashed after all.

Oh and I’m still wondering what Khaled purpose is on this song apart from using this song as the first single off his upcoming LP Victory and spelling his name.

download : DJ Khaled – Fed Up ft. Lil Wayne, Usher, Drake, Young Jeezy & Rick Ross (Prod. The Runners)

Alright, so here’s a new track of DJ Khaled produced by The Runners, featuring Usher, Rick Ross, Young Jeezy & Drake. I always thought that DJ Khaled was a bit like Timbo, producing his songs, but having guest features going in on them, which promtly gave him the right to slap his name in the artist slot … but since The Runners produced this, what is Khaled doing apart yelling his name, spelling WE DA BEST and eating McDonalds?

… ?

The mystery remains unsolved.

download : DJ Khaled – Fed Up ft. Usher, Rick Ross, Young Jeezy & Drake

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‘You are the one that made us all realize, that we are the world’ – The Game

R.I.P. Michael

and I cannot not comment on the fact that having scenes of The Game being in his bathtub with candles is worthy of a pause.

download : The Game, Chris Brown, Diddy, Polow Da Don, Mario Winans, Usher, Boyz II Men – Better On The Other Side (Tribute To MJ)

Here we go people, here’s the first tribute of Michael Jackson, bloggers get your A game out, because this is just the beginning of it. Produced by DJ Khaled and released by DJ Skee.

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also dedicating the 1000th post (being this one) of Above&Beyond to Michael Jackson

download : The Game, Chris Brown, Diddy, Polow Da Don, Mario Winans, Usher, Boyz II Men – Better On The Other Side (Tribute To MJ)