{"id":975772,"date":"2020-03-19T15:49:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T21:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=969757"},"modified":"2020-03-19T15:49:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T21:49:31","slug":"want-to-make-an-rb-hit-in-2020-try-sampling-usher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/want-to-make-an-rb-hit-in-2020-try-sampling-usher\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to Make an R&B Hit in 2020? Try Sampling Usher"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Usher<\/a> has been mostly quiet for the better part of four years. He has released a dud<\/a> here, a solid single<\/a> there. But since R&B is less interested in the vocal acrobatics, washboard abs, and lithe dance moves that are this star\u2019s stock and trade, he appears content to sit back, enjoy the hundreds of millions of streams he amasses annually on his hit-filled back catalog, and wordlessly make fun of Jacquees<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Usher bides his time, though, other singers keep making Usher songs. In October, Summer Walker<\/a> took his breakout single, \u201cYou Make Me Wanna,\u201d and re-did it as \u201cCome Through.\u201d As a testament to the strength of the original, she barely changed a thing aside from the drums; Usher showed up to try his hand at some bizarre rhymes (\u201cpredicament\u201d and \u201ccreep discrete\u201d). The resulting single has earned over 100 million streams and become Walker\u2019s second-biggest radio hit.<\/p>\n