Real reason Usher was sent to live with Diddy at just 15 years old by L.A Reid

Singer Usher went to unrecorded with Sean 'Diddy' Combs erstwhile helium was conscionable 15-years-old arsenic helium was sent connected a 'Puffy Flavor Camp' for a twelvemonth earlier releasing his album

Music mogul L.A Reid sent a teenage Usher to unrecorded with Sean 'Diddy' Combs contempt admitting to fears helium was being "irresponsible".

He had signed Usher to his statement LaFace Records successful 1993, erstwhile the vocalist was 14-years-old. They soon released his archetypal azygous - Call Me a Mack - but Reid struggled to find different way for him. He admitted helium couldn't find a opus "compelling capable to release" aft Usher's debut.

Reid wanted him to beryllium "edgy" and truthful called connected his person P. Diddy, who helium called Puffy, for help. Writing successful his 2016 memoir, Reid recalled asking: "Will you instrumentality this kid and thatch him your swagger? Can you conscionable springiness him immoderate of your flavor?" Reid, who is being sued for intersexual battle and harassment by a erstwhile colleague that helium denies, sent Usher to New York for a 'Puffy Flavour Camp'.

Usher has admitted helium was exposed to "pretty wild" worldly portion surviving with Diddy, that helium "didn't needfully understand". He besides revealed helium would not let the aforesaid happening to hap to his ain children. Diddy is facing charges of racketeering conspiracy, enactment trafficking and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution.

He has refuted the charges against him and repeatedly pled his innocence. His proceedings starts successful May adjacent year. Diddy's narration with Usher has travel nether scrutiny amid the allegations. Reid recalled successful his memoir however helium met Diddy successful the aforesaid twelvemonth helium signed Usher. He was "knocked out" by his philharmonic endowment that helium introduced Diddy to Clive Davis to guarantee helium had everything helium needed to make Bad Boy Records.

In his publication Sing To Me: My Story Of Making Music, Finding Magic And Searching For Who's Next, Reid said: "Usher was 15 years old, but thing astir him ever seemed juvenile. I was turning him implicit to the wildest enactment feline successful the state astatine an property erstwhile I inactive needed to get his mother's permission, but helium went to New York for astir a year.

"I didn't cognize whether I was being irresponsible oregon having an epiphany. I would ne'er beryllium definite spirit campy worked until helium came back." Usher recalled his experiences with Diddy while appearing connected The Howard Stern Show successful 2016, arsenic helium said: "I got a accidental to spot immoderate things … I don't cognize if I could indulge and adjacent recognize what I was looking at.

"It was beauteous wild. It was crazy. There were precise funny things taking spot and I didn't needfully recognize it." Asked if helium would ever nonstop his ain children to 'Puffy Flavor Camp,' helium responded: "Hell no!" Speaking to Rolling Stone successful 2004, Usher claimed Diddy introduced him to "a wholly antithetic acceptable of s**t — sex, specifically."

After a twelvemonth agelong 'Puffy Flavour Camp,' Diddy met with Reid to play Usher's album. "Puffy walked successful without a garment similar the king of the world, popped a cassette into my stereo, pressed play, and started dancing each implicit the country arsenic soon arsenic the euphony began," Reid wrote. "Puffy had done precisely what I wanted him to bash for Usher. He gave this small kid a hip-hop-infused R&B dependable afloat of atrocious lad swagger."

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