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Usher's Maturity Makes You Long for His Childish Ways

By Al Shipley

Baltimore City Paper | July 8, 2008

He even reprints Corinthians 13:11 ("when I became a man, I put away childish things") in the liner notes, just to beat you over the head with the point.

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Tags: R&B, pop, Usher, Jermaine Dupri, Here I Stand, Laface, Sony BMG

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