Usher started recording the song in July 2003 in New York City. However, they were concerned because they needed somebody to write such a song and they never thought Usher would do it. Like "Burn", the second single from the album, Dupri and Cox conversed about a situation, creating the idea of the prospective song. Cox has been a frequent partner of Dupri who had produced hits for Usher as well. Dupri approached Bryan-Michael Cox, asking him to become a collaborator. He again enlisted producer-songwriter Jermaine Dupri, who had produced songs for Usher's two previous albums. When he started working on his fourth studio album Confessions after the release of his 2001 album 8701, Usher chose not to branch out much with musical collaborators instead, he chose to continue creating music with his previous producers. Internationally, the single had lesser success than the album's previous releases. The single reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks, becoming the album's third consecutive number-one single. The song was released as the third single from the album, following the success of " Burn". "Confessions Part II" received mixed reviews from critics. Its personal content evoked rumors and early responses from the public even before its release, believing that Usher was asserting the truth however, Dupri divulged that the story behind the album is about himself. This is a continuation of "Confessions Part I" which relates to a man's infidelity. Written by Usher, Dupri and Cox, the song is a confession of a man to his woman about his impregnated mistress. But cheating is not what caused the relationship to collide and crash." Confessions Part II" is a song by R&B singer Usher, produced by Jermaine Dupri and Bryan-Michael Cox for Usher's fourth album Confessions. I will tell you that I loved a lot and she obviously loved me it just didn’t work out. “You have heard a lot of farfetched things-‘Yo, did you get a girl pregnant?’ Nah, that was the creativity of music. “People assume things, because as I said, I pull from my personal experiences to make my music,” he said in a MTV News interview. However, Usher still had to clarify that he was singing in character, and hadn’t actually impregnated a mistress. “I just had gone through ‘Part II’ in real life, so it was like as soon as he said he wanted ‘Part II,’ the chorus was already on the edge of my lips… so it like 30 minutes to write.” “Usher didn’t have kids none of these things were going on,” he told Complex.
All that basically sums up ‘Confessions.’įrom there, it was only natural to continue the story with “Confessions Part II.” Dupri took inspiration from his personal life to inform the narrative on the song.
I wanted everybody to start wondering: Who’s he talking about? What’s going on? Where’s this coming from? That was the goal.
create what girls think happens when we go to the studio. In response to people at Usher’s label Arista who said that fans only talked about the singer’s records, Dupri decided that he would find a way to “create a whirlwind around Usher” by stirring up drama: According to Dupri, he felt that Usher could only become a superstar by opening up in his music.