Confessions: The Story Behind A Classic

[@bigdaddylocdiesel5688]

Boy them Middle School dances in the Mid 2000's Usher's Music was played at all of them 😩🔥

[@CaapriceTube1]

Yessir! those were the days. I was in Middle School Fall 2001 - June 2004. 8701 & Confessions were the soundtrack to my Junior High years for sure.

[@camronshean1758]

18:40 Jadakiss is the one who stopped them when they were playing the record and told them that he was supposed to be on it and it was after he realized that it was going to be a big deal that he did his verse for the song. Just Blaze said “We approached Jadakiss and he was finishing his album at the time. That’s why the original version has no rapper. It’s funny ’cause I remember when the album came out, Jadakiss randomly happened to be doing the morning show on [NY radio station] Hot 97. They played the record, he stopped it and said, ‘I was supposed to be on this record but I couldn’t ’cause I was finishing my album. I slept on it. I didn’t know it was going to be that big [of] a deal.’ It wasn’t a priority for him. He had to finish his album. As soon as he realized it was going to be a big deal, he ran to the studio, jumped on it and sent us the files. That’s why the version with Jadakiss was on the deluxe version of the album.”

[@goharderthanyesterday7453]

First album i ever listened to front to back cd player days lol before i transitioned into gangsta rap as a kid this was the one

[@devzeppalin]

This was the last physical album ever to go Diamond. No R&B contemporary can match Usher’s reign with Confessions.

[@SwagSurf-od3vx]

Nah that was 50 cent massacre and curtain call by Eminem both in 2005

[@Tajprduce]

Tha carter 3

[@takeover5478]

There’s mad albums better than Confessions. Nickelback All the right reasons, Eminem Curtain The Hits, Taylor Swift Fearless, Adele 21 & 25 all went diamond.

[@RedRed-bx4ct]

​@@takeover5478 how did you sneak taylor in there

[@takeover5478]

@@RedRed-bx4ct I mean it’s Taylor Swift lol biggest artist in the game.

[@todrickminor7560]

The whole album was 🔥

[@o.nmusic4500]

Yeah!, Bad girl an my boo are classics forever

[@divinedelaware7541]

20th anniversary already? That was a fire album can't deny. I know he had my town on smash like for real bro. Dudes and chicks loving r&b. Them days are gone. No love around

[@garretindall2820]

I was 14 at the time of this Album came out. This Album is a FOREVER CLASSIC. FROM BEGINNING TO END, NO SKIPS. MY FAVORITE SONG BURN CONFESSIONS CAUGHT UP BAD GIRL FOLLOW ME YEAH AND TAKE YA HAND. I TRIED NOT TO PUT THE ENTIRE TRACK LIST ON HERE

[@123theprodigy5]

Man, this album brings back memories, when this album dropped, all I heard was yeah and my boo nonstop.

[@manystylesrecords]

GREATEST R&B ALBUM EVER!!!!!!!!!!!

[@chrisgoat6435]

Miseducation of Lauryn Hill enters the chat

[@suavoman90]

6:42 OH MANMANMAN CLOUT DID IT AGAIN!!! This album is all teen years for me (8th Grade: 2nd semester) Being 13 YO, this album made an impact that STILL stands out til this day ESPECIALLY R&B MUSIC (2000s era) Confessions is a golden YET DIAMOND classic!!! From Throwback/Superstar/Simple Things to That's What It's Made For/Can U Handle It/Do It To Me, this has to be his best album if not My Way or 8701... One of the biggest selling albums but also timeless R&B music albums ever!!!! 18:23 Damn this could've been more classic

[@neverbackdown3738]

The people need this

[@DemetriusPooleJr]

Classic album

[@TheBamaPrinceable]

This album is a shining reminder of how much bigger and how much better the genre of R&B used to be in the world of music. I wasn't the music lover I am now back when this album came out but I can still remember how ubiquitous Usher was in the mid 2000s. Dude was one of the last of his kind and part of a dying era of megastars.

[@SeanChukwuezi]

Simply the best album of the 00s

[@Becauseimme]

Throwback should’ve been a single.

[@steve-ie6ju]

9:04 Usher's song You Make Me Wanna... is actually on his second album My Way

[@tywayne3]

Man, I this was about a year after I broke up with my girlfriend. I'd come to realize that I'd literally been shot by cupid and felt an emotional yearning towards her. Ironically I'd just made it off with a new girlfriend and the previous year I'd made it all but clear that I'd moved on and dated several girls (some that my ex knew about) while continued to agressively pursue me (including personally speaking to some of these ladies). Long story short...I didn't feel it was fair to my new girlfriend so I broke up with her. Expressed my sporadic, newfound 'love' to my ex...including confessing a transgression I had when we dated. Spent the next month or two patiently showing her the 'new' me while I figured out whether my feelings were genuine or if I was on crack or something. I even wrote several, several pages of my innermost thoughts and sealed them up giving her the option to read them or not. I would hear all kinds of old skool love songs on the radio that I'd never heard of paid attention to before and send her lyrics (i.e. The Manhattans). This was her past semester, so she asked to stay with me for about a month that summer to take her last classes. I 'surprised her' and bought my first house (not her her but hoped she would appreciate the thought). She stated that she appreciated the 'new' me but could never get over me cheating so we never got back together. Honestly I think me 'wanting' her gave her the strength and courage to move on....or maybe I was too pathetic like a little puppy. Lol. I think Ordinary People by John Legend came out later that winter around Christmas. To this day when I hear Ordinary People, Confessions, or Me, Myself, and I by Beyonce which came out a year earlier I think of her.

[@BrothaNamProductions]

This album has special place in my heart because my pops had a burned cd of this album and me my brother played the hell out of the album till this day and R.I.P my pops usher was crazy around this time it was like this was his thriller and I was big usher fan anyway so it meant so much

[@TheCoachRC]

Numerous critics have named "Confessions" Usher's "Thriller" album due to the number of copies sold (15 million copies worldwide). This reminds me of the New Edition whose album, "Heart Break" is considered their "Thriller" album due to the record sales and major commercial success.

[@almadstrokes2738]

I love what you’re doing here clout….this album was and still is 🔥🔥🔥🔥.I remember back then there were stories about usher and chilli. I thought conressuins was really Ushers story. Side note I was having my confessions story around this time😂

[@SMJDC]

I was 15 then this dropped 8 when usher first album dropped mom copped me all his CDs 2004 was crazy FUN life was easy

[@Charnelle3]

I had to go back and listen to the bridge of Superstar! I was today years old when I heard Faith's voice 😮‍💨

[@jameshathaway1558]

Confessions was the hottest shit in the streets when it dropped. That whole album was filled with classics from Burn, Confessions, Caught Up, Superstar, That's What its Made For and Yeah.. i still run that album back on the regular

[@takeover5478]

Album stinks.

[@actionjacksonIV]

I'm from Chicago. My favorite songs on there is Confessions pt 1, throwback ft Jadakiss and caught up. And I was in 3rd grade,

[@king_retro4206]

Yoooo. Good content. Definitely “throwback” is my favorite. The Dionne Warwick sample and Jada spitting over it. Great job by just blaze!!!

[@earlclark6002]

Illegal downloading was at a peak because a lot of artists were making 14 song albums with 2 or 3 good songs. It was never a good feeling spending $16 for 3 songs. Usher gave the people what they wanted. An album that was a smash from beginning to end. Well worth the money spent & one of my all time favorite albums. Made at a time when R&B music was alive and well!

[@takeover5478]

This album only has about 3-4 good songs on here.

[@cuoy13]

So this album is the 2nd album I ever owned, but it was the first album that I went to Walmart to purchase. I was 9 years old. From the moment I pressed played, I realized I was in for a ride. Now 20 years later, this album still holds pleasant memories in my soul. Favorite songs: Superstar (should've been a single over Caught Up) Bad Girl Seduction Simple Things That's What It's Made For

[@Scarlito_On_The_Track]

At the 16:10 mark when speaking of the 2 tracks I think lovers n friends was the second song, that ended up on Lil Jon Crunk Juice album IMO

[@gemma1874]

Fantastic album . This is a masterpiece . I have the deluxe version. I love sll the tracks on confessions. Fantastic narrator. Who ever the narrator should narrate more abousloutley fantastic

[@housecarolina]

Another banger Clout! 🔥 This is my favorite r&b album ever it's cemented in my brain from childhood shit was EVERYWHERE

[@malclmhexed5978]

This album is TIMELESS

[@takeover5478]

Aged horribly.

[@camronshean1758]

12:18 Darrale Jones said “Usher and 50 spoke and they were supposed to do a song together. We ended up flying to Los Angeles [to] go to the P.I.M.P. video to play 50 the beat. 50 loves the beat and next thing you know, I guess 50 got busy, Usher got busy, and it never really came together.” The song Ride ended up on mixtapes, was available as a 12-inch club record and circulated on the internet in 2004. Usher was reportedly furious about Jennifer Lopez being given the beat for the song and said "I hate it, but I'd better get some of the publishing rights or else. I didn't put it on my album because I couldn't get it right. But I didn't expect J.Lo to just take it." However Usher isn't credited in the liner notes of Jennifer Lopez's album Rebirth for her song Get Right. Even tho the bridge that Usher wrote for his song Ride is used in Jennifer Lopez's song Get Right and sung in the same way as Usher's bridge from his song Ride. Usher - Ride "So much we gotta say, but so little time. But if tonight ain't long enough, don't leave love behind (Don't leave this love behind) Baby, take my hand and say you'll ride" Jennifer Lopez - Get Right "So much we've got to say, but so little time. And if tonight ain't long enough, don't leave love behind (Don't leave this man behind) Baby, take my hand, I'll show you why" In 2005 some D.J.'s were playing the two songs back-to-back, letting listeners hear both Usher and Jennifer Lopez going head-to-head over the same beat

[@fedoramcclaren4294]

I thought she said "I'll show you how"... I was actually one of the deejays which played those songs back to back at that time...

[@takeover5478]

J. Lo had the better version.

[@randyhinojosa7440]

Yo u should make a video of how koopsta knicca & gangsta boo beefed with three 6 and reconciled later. Or a video of rap groups spitting up and getting back together if at all. Love the videos g

[@nicolesherman8974]

Clout is covering an R&B album?? I’m seated 👏🏾🔥.

[@cloutcancun]

Trying to get more into my R&B bag 👀

[@123theprodigy5]

@@cloutcancun what a perfect way to celebrate the 19th anniversary of that album

[@123theprodigy5]

@@cloutcancun yo, you should cover get Rich or die tryin next, that album is 20 years old already. That album was my childhood.

[@startrakambassador3632]

@@cloutcancun please do more R&B albums 🙏🏾🔥

[@EthanLeeV]

Swagggg

[@HieiDaHellSpawn94]

Confessions and Madvillany both came out on the same day

[@cjjones258]

YEAH!!!

[@actionjacksonIV]

Next year it be 20 anniversary of that great RNB Ablum

[@takeover5478]

Mid

[@lisaabolton]

Bangerrrrr 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@takeover5478]

Trash

[@iPickedThisUsername]

8-7-01 > 8701 - The day he planned to release the album titled ‘8701’ !

[@actionjacksonIV]

Ride sounds great

[@Devtr3]

Man if Lovers & Friends were on Confessions then that album would be the best r&b album of all time no contest.

[@takeover5478]

Still wouldn’t be

[@steve-ie6ju]

7:01 Last nail in the coffin for Jermaine Dupri? what do you mean, he was fine after that and still had much success afterwards

[@kennyakaspud14]

Yeah Pop ya collar was a massive hit in the UK but not in the US

[@camronshean1758]

24:44 There's another version of the song My Boo that surfaced on mixtapes in 2004 and it was thought that Beyoncé was the one on it but it's actually Kortney Kaycee Leveringston who's on that demo version kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYXcoHmch9plq6s

[@mjolden]

Nitpicking but "You Make Me Wanna..." was on My Way, not 8701.

[@seankiesling2054]

"You make me want to" wasnt on 8701 it was on "my way"

[@insertwittynamehere_]

I remember being in 9th Grade when this dropped and now in 2023 I still listen to this album front to back. NO SKIPS! a treasure.

[@actionjacksonIV]

Clout do Omarion O album next please

[@P00CHIE101]

agreed!

[@rnbmatters8224]

Growing up in atlanta confessions is like holy grail. I was in the 6th grade when this album came out & I specifically remember “yeah!” and “burn” being staples during the middle school dances. 2004 was usher’s year you could not escape him. 🙌🏾

[@takeover5478]

🧢

[@Stonecoldalston]

18:39 Jada got taken off a few tracks for Jay he finally got to replace Jay Z but he dropped the ball by not making the first cut

[@ショーン-x7f]

I’m waiting for the real confessions

[@bossmanetone]

Do Trap Musik by Tip

[@KareemMusiQ]

You forgot to mention that throwback was definitely a J dilla Beat but okay😅

[@JB2FROSTY]

Do a Drizzy Drake video??

[@EaziMuney-uw3vq]

A complete classic 💯👌🏿

[@CourtneyCrockett-s5e]

love this but you dont take pauses/stop talking.... take a breath when you see a period.

[@kennyakaspud14]

You make me wanna is from My Way not 8701

[@BIG-7777]

Dudes like that joint cause it wasn’t all sappy love songs for chicks,it was a dude album for real talking the real ish

[@takeover5478]

It’s actually quite sappy and a very corny.

[@takeover5478]

Do a video on any album from the r&b GOAT from Chicago, R. Kelly.

[@traynormightbehere]

superstar is my shittt

[@takeover5478]

Do a video on Chris Brown’s debut, Aaliyah’s debut, Futuresex / Lovesounds, and The Emancipation of Mimi.

[@scottylafuegofuentez5931]

Lost a subscriber today! ✌🏾

[@takeover5478]

This album is not a classic, and extremely overrated. Gimmicky album for the most part.

[@cic8399]

You came on this video just to hate. Pathetic.

[@BiebneyAficionado]

Said nobody ever.

[@takeover5478]

@@BiebneyAficionado I just did. And half the album is skips.

[@BiebneyAficionado]

@@takeover5478 Fair enough. You're entitled to your own opinion.

[@RJNumber45]

Known fruitcake...no bueno

[@takeover5478]

Super