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These Are His Confessions: Usher Discusses The Biggest Regret Of His Career, Reveals That Tevin Campbell’s ‘Can We Talk’ Was Originally His Song

<p>Usher Raymond is one of the most gifted entertainers the world has ever seen&period; He began blessing our ears with hits such as My Way and Nice &amp&semi; Slow as a teenager and bangers like Yeah&excl; and No Limit as an established artist&period; You would think that a guy like Usher would seize every great opportunity that comes his way&comma; right&quest; Wrong&excl;&nbsp&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In a &num;QuestloveSupreme interview with &num;Questlove for Pandora&comma; the singer explains that the biggest regret of his career was not working with a young &num;ChrisBrown&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;So his manager comes in&comma; they show him to me&period; I was working on an album at this time&comma; they wanted him to perform on this album&period; I was like okay cool&period; Then I went to my team and they was like &OpenCurlyQuote;I don’t think you should work with this artist&comma;&&num;8217&semi; then he left&period; Chris Brown&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Later in the interview&comma; Usher revealed that Tevin Campbell&&num;8217&semi;s Babyface-penned hit &&num;8216&semi;Can We Talk&&num;8217&semi; was originally written for him&excl; Drama between Babyface and LA Reid prevented the song from going to Usher and even cost him an album&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;&&num;8230&semi;when I first signed to LaFace Records&comma; I wanted to do an album with Babyface and LA Reid&comma; right&quest; I signed specifically for that reason&period; So LA Reid wanted Babyface to work on me and they were going through&comma; you know&comma; a lot of drama at the time&period; They were kinda severing their ties…he got mad…And he built an entire album for me&comma; and he gave the whole album to somebody else…Tevin Campbell&excl; &OpenCurlyQuote;Can We Talk’…was my song…”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Wow&excl;&excl; Roommates&comma; do you think &&num;8216&semi;Can We Talk&&num;8217&semi; went to the right person&quest; I&&num;8217&semi;d love to see a movie with all of this playing out&period; 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