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

[CrimsonTide4]

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.

[Senusret I]

Oh my gosh.

[Neosoulchild]

Originally posted by Senusret I
Oh my gosh.

That's the same thing I said. I can't believe he would even have the nerve to think it let alone speak it.

[RedefinedDiva]

How could Usher eve approve a verse like that? Next thing we know, he will try to pull some kind of Justin move and say that he didn't know, didn't hear the final cut, or didn't want to censor another artist.

[abaici]

WOW, it doesn't happen often, but I'm actually speechless!

[1savvydiva]

Originally posted by abaici
WOW, it doesn't happen often, but I'm actually speechless!

I'm right there with ya homie!

[Senusret I]

Originally posted by RedefinedDiva
How could Usher eve approve a verse like that? Next thing we know, he will try to pull some kind of Justin move and say that he didn't know, didn't hear the final cut, or didn't want to censor another artist.

To be fair, unofficial remixes to popular songs are made all the time. Usher might really not have known about it.

When Amerie's first single FINALLY got its own remix with Ludacris in '02 or '03, Camron had already came out with his own spin on it, with less than flattering lyrics as well.

[TheEpitome1920]

That is a hot mess!

[mccoyred]

Exactly! My original reading of the article indicated that another artist (Budden) remixed Usher's song. So how is that Usher's fault and why is he getting the bad publicity? Did I miss the part where this remix is on Usher's album?

Originally posted by Senusret I
To be fair, unofficial remixes to popular songs are made all the time. Usher might really not have known about it.

When Amerie's first single FINALLY got its own remix with Ludacris in '02 or '03, Camron had already came out with his own spin on it, with less than flattering lyrics as well.

[Dedicated2Delta]

Originally posted by Neosoulchild
That's the same thing I said. I can't believe he would even have the nerve to think it let alone speak it.

That's what I thought the first time I heard the remix. They used to play it all the time on the stations near the area that I live. I just switch the station when it comes on. But as long as people are requesting it, the stations are going to play it.

[AKA2D '91]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
What has gotten into Usher?



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.

Interesting....(now a controversy)

Well, I bet this controversy will add to his record sales.

I haven't heard the remix either.

[BLUTANG]

Originally posted by Dedicated2Delta
But as long as people are requesting it, the stations are going to play it.

can't say it any better than that.

Not a fan of Joe Budden, and i haven't heard this remix... i don't even like the original (take my Usher fan club card and i loooove me some Mr. Raymond) so next time i hear the opening strains or usher talking i guess i'll keep the station on.

[Senusret I]

I downloaded the Joe Budden remix.

He really should be ashamed of himself.

[RedefinedDiva]

Originally posted by Senusret I
To be fair, unofficial remixes to popular songs are made all the time. Usher might really not have known about it.

When Amerie's first single FINALLY got its own remix with Ludacris in '02 or '03, Camron had already came out with his own spin on it, with less than flattering lyrics as well.

Originally posted by mccoyred
Exactly! My original reading of the article indicated that another artist (Budden) remixed Usher's song. So how is that Usher's fault and why is he getting the bad publicity? Did I miss the part where this remix is on Usher's album?

Though I understand what you both are saying, if I had a song and was getting bad press or whatever about it, I would be adament about getting it pulled AND getting a public apology. It's one thing to let a remix slide that just has a lot of cursing and hatnot, but to promote beating babies out of people is a whole new ballgame. Considering that he all but said that he wanted nothing to do with the whole baby situation, I don't know what to say of the remix lyrics. Though I doubt that he would be promoting this, all I can do is shake my head. I will have to download it and hear it for myself.

[Cali_Keisha]

That's crazy, I would hope Usher had nothing 2 do with it or he might have a bumpy riad ahead of him.