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Confessions: Usher & Grace Miguel Talk Love, Life & Management in Billboard Magazine

May, 8 2012 | Written by ATLien
As Usher Raymond and his ex-wife Tameka Foster Glover Raymond continue to battle it out in court over the custody of their two young sons, there is another battle that’s already been won.

Grace Miguel, Usher’s boo/manager has managed to not only keep the celeb entertaining the masses, but she’s also won his heart.

Usher and Grace were 1st romantically linked while they both were still married to other people. Miguel has two teen kids and the two managed to sneak around until Miguel divorced her husband to be with Usher full time.

[READ: Trading Places: Is Usher’s New Boo Just Another “Tameka”]

There were rumors that Miguel was forced to play the background because Usher is more “marketable” as a single man, but apparently that’s all changed and they’re officially an “item”.

In the recent issue of Billboard magazine, Usher and Grace ‘confess’ that they have mixed business with pleasure and it’s a blend that’s surprisingly been working for them for quite a few years now.

Cover + excerpt of the couple’s recent interview below…

As you know, Usher dumped his momanger Jonetta Patton’s J-Pat Management firm (yet again) and is now opts for the management services of his girlfriend, former Def Jam exec Grace Miguel’s Coup D’Etat company.

In speaking about his controversial management changes, Usher reveals:

In life we have to grow, and one thing that’s been beautiful is that I’ve been able to grow along with my mother and people of my past.

They’re proud of me as I move forward, and are able to acknowledge the work I’ve been doing and say, ‘I like what you’re doing, and I like that you’ve been able to pick it up and continue to move on.’

Miguel also speaks about their romantic relationship verses their business relationship. Stating that their love only makes the team stronger.

“Usher’s core team is run like a family who inspire each other to reach our full potential and have each other’s backs, while we create the foundation for his monumental success,” Miguel says.

Among his longtime business and creative team members are RCA president of urban music/Bystorm Entertainment CEO Mark Pitts, who has worked with Usher for 20 years and serves as his A&R rep, and musical director Johnny “Natural” Najera, who has been with Usher for 12 years.

“That personal connection,” Miguel adds, “allows us all to really go the extra mile to help him achieve his goals.”

What the article DIDN’T say was that there are a lot of other people besides Miss. Jonetta, that have been given the boot from Usher’s camp as well.

I’m not going to name names, but it’s looking like Mr. Raymond is in yet another “Tameka” situation.

[Sidebar: Miguel’s company name, “Coup D’Etat” is defined as “a violent overthrow” 😯 ]

Didn’t we all say that she was trying to clean house in Usher’s camp right before she popped out those kids?

Usher ditched Tameka (supposedly) because she was way too controlling, but now it seems like someone else has the reigns. That old saying ‘never sh*t where you eat’ seems the perfect life quote for Usher, but I can’t knock him cause just like R-uh Kelly… some people like that kinda thing. *shrug*

Now that he’s battling Tameka for full custody of the kids, this whole thing kinda sorta almost makes sense. Oh… and the fact that an album is about to come out (insert-side-eye).

If you think about it, the parallels between Usher’s new boo and his ex are undeniable! They both were married women with kids (that “controlling mother figure” type) and from all appearances it’s looking like they both ran the hell outta Usher.

Sooner or later though, Usher has gotta realize that he keeps choosing the same (older) broads in different packaging, but I guess if it sells records it’s all good… right?

What is it about these men with Mommy issues that keep them repeating the same nasty habits?

Where’s Mama Patton to step her foot in on this one?

CLICK HERE to read more of Usher’s Billboard cover story…

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- Lj
  
  I’ve always liked usher as an artist and I don’t know him personally. But… Chile i wish him the best.
- SlimShadeee
  
  He has NEVER really been single. Those years with Diddy must have severely traumatized him.
  
  Toronto33
  
  Lol….that comment was too funny! Imagine what Diddler did to him at 15 – that’s probably why he likes old ugly ass women ….Chilli not included, he messed up BIG time on that shit! Lmaooooooo
- Kamalla
  
  I’m glad they are coming forward with their relationship. It’s such BS that the record companies make these men pretend that they are single and keeping their women in the background. That may work for the teen/tween age but once you the artist and we the audience/fans grow up, its time to put away childish notions. Women need to stop kidding themselves that any male singer/actor/athlete is single because the truth is: there are more women on this planet than there are men and the men will always have options!
  
  Congrats Usher, I hope this one lasts. Still think you’re a dog for how you treated your wife but everyone makes mistakes.
- Bee
  
  SMH. I guess we all know how this will end . . .
- cme
  
  It’s funny that I read all your inserts from the article and they were all taking about a business relationship. Not a personal relationship. How am I the only one that gets that? Seems like someone put some statements together and tried to pretend that they were talking about a personnel relationship. Was this written just to get Tameka upset? And she will be responding somewhere in 5..4..3..2…
  
  howiseeit
  
  you are definitely NOT the only person who sees this! Its clear that Grace is speaking about a business relationship and talking about a close bond that usher’s team has.
- Pam
  
  Usher is messy as hell!!!
  
  teejay
  
  yes! a "hot getto mess"
- Imsurroundedbyidiots.com
  
  ^^^I’m a little suspect about the timing of this interview as well. Maybe trying to rattle Tameka’s cage? (no pun intended). Throw her off her game so she’ll lose it in court? Anyways…
  
  Quote:
  He has NEVER really been single. Those years with Diddy must have severely traumatized him.
  ————————–
  EXACTLY! Everybody thinks he date older women because he has mommy issues. That’s not it at all. He introduction to sex was through orgies and sex parties that P Shitty threw, and the women he slept with were around Diddy’s age, a good 7-8 years older than Usher. While he’ll sleep with any age, race, etc., he gravitates to the older woman because that was his first experience.
  
  The social worker in me always say that in a sense, he was molested by diddy. Not directly, but he was too young for the situation he was put in.
  
  Angie
  
  I totally agree with you, imsurroundedbyidiots.com. I’m so glad that someone else sees what I see and have seen ever since I found out that J Pat allowed her 15 year old soon to go live with Puff Daddy! SMDH This baby was exposed to so much at a young age. They all should be ashame of themselves (Mom, Diddy, and the women that slept with him). That’s why he is making the decisions that he’s making
- Imsurroundedbyidiots.com
  
  ^^^his introduction, not he.
- 2bme
  
  I agree with part of that but usher DOES have mommy issues, remember Jonetta was Jonetta not mom or mama since he came in the business at what 12? She had to put aside being his mother to be a manager..it is a void he has been trying to fill and older women will always be his preferred taste..however, usher is a hopeless romantic and puts these women on pedastals..hopefully this will last but keep in mind once usher goes pulic with his relationships they usually have about two years after that..Eisha..2 years..Chilli..2 years..Tameka(crept for years)..but married..2 years..Grace..once he officially goes public the countdown will begin…
- AS
  
  There are so many typos and grammatical errors in this post. No need to rush. Let quality prevail. I read 2 other posts that are the same. Proofread.
  
  *
  has two teen kids and the managed to sneak around
  
  and is now opts for the management services of his girlfriend,
  
  relationship verses [versus] their
  
  of the kids, this whole think [thing] kinda
- Imsurroundedbyidiots.com
  
  Was that really necessary? I mean, it’s good to offer constructive criticism (I’ve done it myself), but there is a way to present things. I’m sure there are other things to concern yourself with other than the grammar/time management of others. Like the topic at hand, perhaps?
  
  Hopefully you’re as good at receiving input as you are at giving it. As MJ says, "it’s all with love." lol
- divaish
  
  Cme
  
  I thought i was the only one that noticed that!smgdh
- Monique
  
  Usher is a DOG straight up. He left his wife for this woman, he is a snake. She is smart to find this lost kid to manage, fuck, suck, and "take over". Now his kids mother has to suffer at the hands of this foul woman? I hope that Tameka fights for his kids- tooth and nail! This is an awful ordeal.
  Its bad enough that he left her for this muppet and now she wiped out his momager and is going for the kids mom too. God be with his ex wife, in this fight. Usher is a dirty creature. This is apparent.
- mary
  
  firstly , i think his mother made a mistake by allowing him to go with diddy at such a young age….i mean look at diddys lifestyle then and now? but she saw $$$$ signs before her childs well being so she is to blame for his failures. now, i think that usher is a "good boy" meaning he know how to treat a woman..i mean look how he married tameka and he didn’t have to, he gave his all for her even turning a side eye to his own mother for the sake of love, some married men dont do that…usher did a lot to make tameka happy and usher is a good man and a good father, he is one of those ones that if a woman cant control him she will go to the last mile to degrade him or try to take him down because he left her sorry a##. i see it happen too many times in real life. usher is a good man, chili messed up with him cuz same thing with her he gave her his all, treated her son like royalty his own and chili being the ghetto hood rat she is messed up and when usher did his dirt to get back at her she couldn’t handle it and things went hay wire! but again usher is a good man i can tell how he handle his boys..not a lot of men will battle for custody of their kids..not a lot of men will marry a woman cuz she is pregnant with his child. usher is a good man that got caught up with the wrong women because he is a lover and not a fighter! team usher!!!!
- lockstress
  
  Usher…you should have listened to your mom and just not marry that woman. You were not ready to be "tied down" and now it’s costing you $$.
  
  As far as who he prefers who cares. I know if her weren’t with any of those women I damn sure wouldn’t be interested so be happy but know that you are to be commited to the one you are with. Stay out the church getting married and live your life happily ever after my friend.
- mary
  
  usher is the type of man that will fall in love with a woman easily and he the type that will love you hard, but he needs that same love in return or else things will go haywire. if you listen to some of his songs when he broke bad with tameka…she paid him no attention unless it was about the cameras…tameka loved the fame and fortune not the marriage….she was in it for the fame not realizing usher needed love too. i would have loved to see usher and beyonce together, not that old hag thug in a suit she married!
- mary
  
  oh and atlien, do you want usher for yourself? sure you do or else you wouldn’t have created this bullshit post! lol lol lol
- 2bme
  
  Mary, I agree Usher does need attention he was schooled by Diddy and J.Dupri in that regard. I remeber all teh photos of he and Tameka..you could see how photo happy she was like she was the star and not the other way around
- to momma
  
  It’s Crazy how Usher is being praised in the comment section..when he was the one who destroyed his own relationships. @Mary FYI Chilli wasn’t ready fo marriage at the time, but does that give him a reason to cheat Hell No!!! Just becuz she wasn’t ready doesn’t mean the love she had for him changed. So cheating on someone because of that shows his selfish ass ways. Like I’m Usher any woman would say Yes blah blah blah..yea any woman would but she not any woman. She wanted to make sure it was right. but his EGO got in the way..and well we all no the results to that..How come some women will stick with a man a wait for him to ask them for marriage and it could be years or never but they stay faithful, but when a woman is a little hestiate about it and says she not ready some men not all would cheat on them becuz of they didn’t say yes????
- to momma
  
  Now on to tameka.. Is there anyone who realise After Chilli, Usher fell the fuck off (IMO) Why convenant another mans wife and u wonder why y’all didn’t last and the drama that surrounded it??? Tameka is to blame as well becuz I don’t give a care if usher is rich or good looking ain’t no way i would leave my husband for a another man. That’s why Karma is kicking both of they asses ..and he did/doing the same with Grace..SAD. All these single women with heads on there shoulder but u want another mans wife WTF!!!!!!!!!!!..Nobody will call him a homewrecker becuz he’s a man and He’s Usher..but if this was Alicia Keys, Gabrielle Union, just any woman for that matter the blogs, etc, the blogs stay flooded calling the all kinds of things.I think it’s messed up he’s deserves the same treatment. Not Hate just observation…
- STL chick
  
  To momma, he has been raked over the coals for this. It is worse for a woman, though, because strides still need to be made for equality in various aspects.
- Pimpslapyahoe
  
  This boy yes boy ( he’s trapped in childhood) has SEVERE mommy issues!! He loves them old hens!! *sigh* They’ll be through when another album comes out!!
- Pimpslapyahoe
  
  I say mommy issues because by letting him go with Diddy she abandoned him so he seeks love and affection from these older women. Most men I know had sex with women older than them on their first time and I don’t see them always sexing geriatrics!! Lmao stay out the nursing home Usher go get you a spring chicken!!
- Pimpslapyahoe
  
  And phuk whoever gotta a problem with me or anybody else grammar this a blog for crying out loud not English 1101 bih!!
- K.
  
  I read this interview and like some said it looks like that were throwing statement together like they fit. I don’t think "Confessing" anything. Even if they really are "dating"
  
  Anyway… it is what it is and I wish Usher would stop letting these women use the hell outta him. That’s happens when you play with fire "shrugs"
- K.
  
  2bme says:
  May 8, 2012 at 9:59 pm
  I agree with part of that but usher DOES have mommy issues, remember Jonetta was Jonetta not mom or mama since he came in the business at what 12? She had to put aside being his mother to be a manager..it is a void he has been trying to fill and older women will always be his preferred taste..however, usher is a hopeless romantic and puts these women on pedastals..hopefully this will last but keep in mind once usher goes pulic with his relationships they usually have about two years after that..Eisha..2 years..Chilli..2 years..Tameka(crept for years)..but married..2 years..Grace..once he officially goes public the countdown will begin…
  
  Exactly, Even if that is what they call themselves doing (going pubic)The clock starts ticking and controversy and choas begins… I mean they don’t have no choice since Tameka busted them out anyway.
- Imsurroundedbyidiots.com
  
  You know, my friend dated a young man in his mid twenties when she was 39. At the age of 16, he lost his virginity to a woman in her 40s (creepy, I know). He’s been dating older ever since. I think when that’s your introduction, it becomes a preference. I do think, however, that once Usher gets to be in his late 40’s/early 50’s, he’ll completely revert. Once he goes thru a mid-life crisis (and I’m sure his will be later than the norm), he’ll start dating women in their late teens/early 20s, just to prove to himself that he’s still "got it".
  
  2bme, you made a great argument for his mommy issues…I never looked at it that way. I’d say we’re both right lol.
- 2bme
  
  ^^^Behavior Science over here..usher is a classic case and he either can’t see it or doesn’t care..either way it’s pitiful..I do know he doesn’t want anymore children and Grace has to be going through menopause….
- Naffy
  
  I wish he would just go on back to Chilli already… geez.
- sue
  
  His mom needs to come get him! Unless they no longer talk, he left his ex wife for an even older woman, wow! And yr family with kids, to be with another woman with kids and break up her marriage to i mean. Usher you need counselling something isn’t right!
- Redd’Velvet
  
  This is what happens when you breast feed too long…your son always want old tits and someone tellin him what to do. He will forever be looking for a mom he can screw
- Sharon Benjamin-Hodo
  
  I hope Usher goes broke. That’s the only way he will realize that he needs help. Another case of a man who grew up without a father figure. This explains why he keeps choosing people that could pass for his mother…YOU CAN LOOK THIS UP ONLINE. ITS A CASE THAT PSYCHOLOGISTS HAVE DOCUMENTED. That’s all Usher knows is his mother being in his life and having control. Now he dates older women who control his business. We all know Andre 3000 is like that too. I hope the tea drops on Andre 3000’s messy relationship with his mother and his manager.
  
  Angie
  
  It shoulds as if you’re a little hater. Grow up and if grown get a life.
- SOUL4REAL
  
  You have to remember Usher’s mother was the first woman in his life. His mother was the soul foundation of their family. It doesn’t surprise me that Usher like older women who can handle business like his "Mother"!Experience is the best teacher! Usher wasn’t afraid to take that "Dive"!! Live and let live!!
- Dr. A.H. Williams
  
  Usher is young, when he gets older he’ll be another Hue Hefner and will want a younger woman. Usher is gonna be just like his mentors, Sean Combs and Jermaine Dupri a straight up ho! These type of men should never get married! You all see Combs hasn’t married Miss Porter yet and never will. A man can only do what a woman lets him. They need to stop looking at him as Usher the entertainer and really find out who the real man is. And that’s one that can never be with a woman for to long without cheating! I mean the man fucked one of her bridesmaids and then made the bitch a nanny! Tameka should’ave kicked that bitch ass! I use to think Tameka was psycho but now I see how she fills, it’s like he’s doing shit to make tameka jealous, like posting pictures of him, the kids and Grace and her kids on the internet together. Mr.Raymond needs to understand that’s it’s really a thin line between love and hate. He’s confusing those two four letters words tht begin with L with each other, LOVE and LUST! He’s going to say I love you to the wrong woman and not mean it and end up dead! He needs to watch thin line between love and hate. Mam won’t be there to save his ass than!
- shybyme
  
  Usher did the same thing with his ex wife Tameka Usher waited for her to divorce her husband or he divorce her what ever than he stared being seen with her. Why cant they see Usher has a pattern he does with these older women. Who has once been married and already have older children. Sorry Usher I would have to tell u I DONT PLAY STEP MOM.
  USHER you are a sex addict .We will soon hear about Usher cheating with Miguel bridemaid as well. USHER GET SOME HELP
- zakeey
  
  hi usher boo im big fan of your well your two sons are too cute usher let burn with man looking grace she to old she can be your grandmom she don’t love you she just want your money an fame she don’t care about you kids she want to bring you down play you ass ok get back with chilli she love you call up talk over make work your kids need a pretty mommy not a man looking one like grace she look like she live a hard life you call chilli grace is gonna get what she need from you usher an leave you are to blind not to see she not for you usher hell I wish I where your lady you be my king I show real love not fake love for your money like ugly ass grace doing she don’t love you let burn before its to late let go and get back with chilli your soul mate that’s true love boo love much usher wish I can talk to you on phone tell something don’t want to see you hurt anymore im hurt when you hurting be bless get devil out you house grac she a snake im pray you do right thing go back to chilli peace love you zakkey
- howiseeit
  
  usher needs to just get back with chilli. He was his happiest then and the music was the best then too! They could be like Beyoncé and Jay Z forreal…but they playin.
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