The perfect imperfection of Usher‘s Hard II Love is coming this Friday after months of delays and many title changes as Usher’s new album tracklisting is also released earlier this week.
Originally Usher called this album UR, then Flawed, and finally – Hard II Love. “What is ‘flawed?’ It’s something that is not perfect. It’s a future relic of some sort, to grow and blossom and gain texture. But it is those things, those tumultuous occurrences and things that happen in your life that define what it is…Now I can’t tell you yet at the end what it’s gonna be, but right now it’s Flawed.” the singer said in an interview with Billboard. This explanation for the Flawed title seems to fit very well with the album’s current (and final) title Hard II Love.
This project will be the singer’s eighth studio album and his latest release since 2012’s Looking 4 Myself an album with multiple chart-topping singles: “Climax”, “Scream” and “Lemme See” featuring Rick Ross. Most notably, “Climax” is Usher’s 2nd longest running single on Billboards Hip-Hop/R&B Airplay charts – lasting 11 weeks at number one, compared to “You Make Me Wanna” from My Way which lasted for 12 weeks.
The 15 song tracklist was just released for Hard II Love and includes features from Young Thug on “No Limit”, Future on “Rivals” and an appearance from the actress Priyanka Chopra (from “Quantico”) on the opening track “Need U”. Other stand-out singles from the album so far are the sexy Hip-Hop and harmonic infused track “Missin U” and the infatuating “Crash”.
Usher recently returned to his hometown of Chattanooga, TN Friday night to do a free concert to help raise money for the local school’s art program. The superstar has agreed to match every dollar raised – he talked about the importance of keeping art inside of the schools – he also mentioned how the program helped mold his future as a child growing up in the Chatanooga area.
The tracklisting for Usher’s latest album Hard II Love is below and will be officially released this Friday 9/16/16.
Hard II Love Full Tracklisting:
01. Need U (Conversation with Priyanka Chopra)
02. Missin U
03. No Limit feat. Young Thug
04. Bump
05. Let Me
06. Down Time
07. Crash
08. Make U a Believer
09. Mind of a Man
10. FWM
11. Rivals feat. Future
12. Tell Me
13. Hard II Love
14. Stronger
15. Champions (From Hands of Stone)
