Usher opens up about parenting: Wants his sons to understand that ‘It’s okay to cry"

“Extra’s” AJ Calloway caught up exclusively with Usher during Tina Brown’s American Justice Summit at John Jay College in NYC, where he opened up about parenting.
He revealed what he wants to instill in his boys. “I teach them to feel, its okay to cry, its okay to have angry moments, but yo...
Usher opens up about parenting: Wants his sons to understand that ‘It’s okay to cry"

R&B singer Usher Raymond accepts Gordon Parks Award at Cipriani Wall Street

36 year old singer Usher was awarded the Gordon Parks Award at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan yesterday Tuesday June 3rd. The singer was seen proudly posing with the award. His trophy was a framed print of the legendary photographer’s ‘Drugstore Cowboys of Blind River, Ontario in 1955. He looked really dapper in a grey marbled shiny suit. More photos below…

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R&B singer Usher Raymond accepts Gordon Parks Award at Cipriani Wall Street

Tameka Raymond fires back at Usher + reveals she got duped

Tameka Raymond claps back at her Ex husband, Usher for calling her out through his songs. A few days ago, a new song by Rico Love titled ‘Somebody Else’ featuring Usher and Wiz Khalifa was released. In the song, Usher begged his ex to please find somebody else and leave him alone.

“I’m really hoping she finds somebody else. And it won’t get better till you try somebody else. She be all in to the drama, But I just want us to close. She all about the commotion, I swear she gotta heart of stone” – Usher sang.

Well, his ex-wife Tameka Raymond was not amused and took to Twitter to let him know. She also revealed she was duped by a Nigerian Real Estate agent. See the tweets a below…

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Jay Z’s $56m music streaming service Tidal is not doing well

Tidal: Despite Tidal extravagant beginnings, the music-streaming service bought by Jay Z is failing! There are reports that Jay Z’s music streaming service, Tidal, is not doing well. When it was launched on March 30th, it went to number 4 on the iOS music app chart. As of this week, it’s now ranks 51 on the music chart and 872 overall. Major rivals Pandora & Spotify sit in 1st and 3rd place respectively.

Usher, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Madonna, Deadmau5, Kanye West, Jay Z, & J Cole at the Tidal launch last month in New York.

According to Yahoo music

When Tidal made its big media push at the end of March, the core message was clear: While other streaming music services like Spotify and Pandora pay a pittance to artists, Tidal offers musicians a better deal. Unfortunately, Tidal also opted to use super stars like Nicki Minaj and Beyonce as spokespersons for the app. The result was the ultimate mixed message: You should feel sorry about how little money Nicki makes. Less than a month into Jay Z’s Tidal reign, the rapper is already effecting major changes.

The streaming service has parted ways with Andy Chen, the CEO of Tidal’s parent company Aspiro that Jay Z purchased.

Two weeks after Tidal briefly cracked the U.S. iPhone top 20 download chart, the app has crashed out of the top 700. Apparently American consumers have limited empathy towards Beyonce and Nicki. Soon after the launch fiasco, Tidal’s CEO was kicked out in a “streamlining” move.  The new CEO Peter Tonstad, a former consultant for the Norwegian Ministry of Environment, has his work cut out for him.

To make matters worse for Tidal, its main rivals are now surging. On April 20th, Pandora and Spotify occupied positions No. 3 and No. 4 on the U.S. iPhone revenue chart, respectively. This was the first time two music streaming services have hit the top 4 in sales simultaneously. In order to achieve the feat, Pandora and Spotify had to push out Candy Crush Saga out of U.S. iPhone top 4 revenue chart, which is a remarkable achievement.

As a matter of fact, something curious can be seen in Spotify’s download performance right after Tidal media campaign started bashing its allegedly meager payouts. Spotify surged back into the iPad Top 40 download chart on March 31st, right when Tidal’s anti-Spotify invective hit fever peak in American media. This had not happened since November 2014.

It looks like Tidal’s attacks on Spotify and Pandora actually managed to increase public awareness of the services, boosting particularly Spotify’s download performance at the end of March. And now, a few weeks later, the combined revenue performance of the two music apps is hitting a new milestone.

To add insult to injury, Beats Music has started cracking U.S. iPhone top 20 revenue chart

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