He said he co-wrote the album’s core breakup ballad, “Burn,” while he and Chilli were still together. While it was true that he wasn’t entirely sold on marriage, he told Rolling Stone in 2004 that he did once buy Chilli a 10-karat diamond ring and proposed to her in the most R&B way: in the middle of sex. In constructing the narrative around Confessions, Usher omitted certain facts. We want My Boo, Red Light, That’s What It’s Made For, and Burn remakes please!Ĭlick the button below the player to download this set for free.But the deception worked on multiple levels. Our complaint is that this is entirely too short. It can be a little hard to tell which song he’s singing (initially) without looking at the tracklist, but that spin makes this a great tribute. The new style gives The Chicago Kid a chance to do adlibs without making the songs sound odd. The change in instrumentation, which lends more to the acoustic side that the original album, give you all the R&B realness that a young Usher gave but adds just a little more soul. Taking on three songs from the album’s special edition (the Confessions, Part 2 (Remix) was not included on the original album) and including audio from interviews that Usher gave when promoting the project, The Chicago Kid does a great job of giving you the essence of what made that album so great and yet still giving us some of himself as well. It’s been 13 years since the release of Usher’s Confessions, an album that is still very playable from beginning to end, and one person that was not willing to let the occasion go by without commemoration was BJ The Chicago Kid.

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