Confessions Remix(not necessarily BY USHER) Advocating Violence and Abortion

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What has gotten into Usher?

New York, NY (LifeNews.com)

-- Music fans should be outraged by a remix of a song off the latest hit album from R&B singer Usher. The remix, featuring hardcore rapper Joe Budden, advocates abortion and violence against pregnant women, a representative of an African-American group says.

Usher's latest album, Confessions, has topped the sales charts for nine weeks, selling more than four million copies in only 11 weeks after its release. Three of the first singles from the album have hit number one, and the latest, "Burn," remains at number one for the seventh straight week.

However a remix of the song, "Confessions, Part II" is drawing complaints. In the original, currently number two on Billboard's pop charts, Usher's "confession" is that he has had an illicit relationship with another woman. The mistress reveals she is three months pregnant and plans to keep the baby.

However, Budden adds additional lyrics to the song, not found in the original on Usher's album, saying he hopes she will abort the baby and, if not, he will beat her to cause the baby's death: "Pray that she abort that, If she's talkin' 'bout keepin' it / One hit to the stomach, She's leakin' it," Budden sings.

Day Gardner, director of Black Americans for Life, an African-American pro-life group, says the lyrics are "demeaning and outright violent toward both women and unborn children."

"It is appalling to suggest that a man attack a woman to cause the death of her unborn child," Gardner said. "As women and as mothers, we simply cannot allow ourselves or our unborn children to be treated as objects of such abuse."

Melissa Ashley, a spokeswoman for Usher's publicist, told LifeNews.com she had no comment. She said she had not heard Budden's remix version.

Usher's label LaFace/Zomba records, and its parent, BMG Entertainment, referred requests for comment back to Usher's publicist. Calls from LifeNews.com to Budden's label, Island/Def Jam Records, were not returned.

Gardner's group is asking for calls to Usher's label and for R&B radio stations to pull the remix from their playlists. Some stations have already added the Budden version to their rotation.

Last week, Usher set a record for the most consecutive weeks spent at the top of the Billboard pop charts since they were unveiled in 1940.


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I have not heard aforementioned remix, but this article makes me leery to do so.