Usher stunned Hip-Hop and R&B fans after revealing he was once engaged in secret talks to form a supergroup with Jay-Z, Pharrell Williams and Diddy.
The “Good Good” hitmaker singer joined Shannon Sharpe on the latest episode of the “Club Shay Shay” podcast, which aired Wednesday (January 31).
Sharpe asked Usher if he had ever turned down a collab and later regretted it.
“Yeah. You gon’ hate me for this one,” Usher prefaced his revelation before adding, “Jay-Z, Pharrell, Diddy, and me was supposed to be a group. Yeah, that’s crazy.”
Sharpe asked why he declined, but Usher explained the idea eventually fizzled out. “I didn’t say, ‘No.’ I didn’t say, ‘Yeah,’” he said, adding, “I think that we just got caught up. We all got caught up in the moment. We was talking about it and having secret meetings about it.”
Despite their clandestine talks of a possible fruitful venture, the potential supergroup never came to be.
“We was talking about music and how we was gon’ flip it, and the business of it. Somehow, we just got distracted, and it never happened. That’s one that I actually wish would have happened,” said Usher.
However, Usher made another startling revelation about a missed opportunity, although this concerned a movie.
“Davis Geffen reached out to me to be in Dreamgirls,” Usher told a stunned Sharpe. “Yeah man, it just didn’t happen.“ According to the upcoming Super Bowl performer, while everyone from Eddie Murphy to Brandy contacted him about the role, he still turned it down. “Yeah, I didn’t do it,” he added.