Usher has revealed that he and Jay-Z, Pharrell Williams, and Diddy were supposed to come together to form a group but it never materialized. In an interview with the Club Shay Shay podcast, the singer shared that they had secret meetings and discussed music before getting “distracted.” Usher adds that he wished it had happened but he got “caught up in the moment.”
While the four artists have never collaborated on a song together, Usher has worked separately with Jay-Z and Beyoncé on his fourth studio album “Here I Stand”, with Jay-Z contributing a verse on “Best Thing” and Beyoncé appearing on the remix of “Love in This Club”. He was also featured on Diddy’s “I Need A Girl, Pt. 1”, which reached the Top 3 on the Billboard chart and joined him on “Better On The Other Side,” a tribute to the late Michael Jackson.
Pharrell and Jay-Z have both been involved in supergroups in the past. The Neptunes producer teamed up with Lupe Fiasco and Kanye West to form Child Rebel Soldier in the ’00s, while Jay-Z was once in Murder Inc, a collective with Ja Rule and DMX.
Usher is set to headline this year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show, and he recently shared a teaser video for the performance, which he called “30 years in the making.” The show will take place at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on February 11, two days after Usher releases his ninth studio album, “Coming Home.”
In other news, T-Pain recently played an unreleased collaboration he did with Usher and Michael Jackson in the early ’00s that was eventually shelved. According to T-Pain, Jackson never finished the song after the reference song was leaked
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