Bibg Bling and Fatherhood - USHER

This may come as a surprise but not all RnB stars are about bling bling, cars and women, Some care about babies. This is USHER, the music superstar who is more interested in fatherhood than hit records.

The 29-year-old singer debuts his 9-month-old son Usher Raymond V on the August cover of Essence magazine. He says that raising his son is a responsibility he takes very seriously and wants his child to grow up as wise as he possibly can.

“Now I represent what he is to become,” Usher says about his son. “He’s gonna admire me, he’s gonna look up to me. He’s gonna say, ‘I wanna be’ – or he should say – ‘I wanna be like my father. I wanna be a man of valor. I wanna possess what my father has as a man.’”

This high interest related to being a good father might have been influenced by Usher’s relationship with his own parent(I might add that it was a pretty troubled relationhip)  ”I don’t judge my father because I forgave him for anything he’d ever done to hurt me unintentionally.” 

Therefore, his own childhood  opened his eyes about fatherhood and responsability. “You should never abandon that responsibility, which is to be there, reading with your child, being supportive of your child’s growth,” he says when asked what advice he’d give to young parents.

Usher sees his baby, Raymond V  an “extension of his union” with Tameka Foster, his fresh wife, who “put him in the right place”.