Hard II Love

Hard II Love is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Usher. It was released on September 16, 2016, by RCA Records. The album includes several producers that were involved with its production such as Brandon "B.A.M." Hodge, Rock City, Pop & Oak, Tricky Stewart, The-Dream, Metro Boomin, R!O, f a l l e n, Carlos St. John, K-Major, among others. The album features several guest vocalists from Young Thug and Future, among others. In an interview with Rap-Up, singer and songwriter Eric Bellinger explained that himself, along with Jermaine Dupri, Bryan-Michael Cox and Brian Alexander Morgan, were working on Usher's next album. Bellinger compared the album's music to Usher's Confessions, saying that it is "more urban" than Looking 4 Myself. The latter declared that his next album would show that he is "still Usher". In an interview with Billboard, Bellinger explained that Usher created music for his previous albums based on what people wanted to hear. For his follow-up project, he chose to do music based on "what he wants to do in his heart", placing R&B as the album's main focus. On January 6, 2014, RCA Records CEO Peter Edge described Usher's album as "one of his best …