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Naviyd Raymond and Usher
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Key Takeaways:
- At simply 16 years outdated, Naviyd Raymond launched his debut single “Easy Blues,” taking full management of the manufacturing and inventive path.
- Usher supported his son by showing in a TikTok video dancing to the observe.
- Naviyd deliberately saved the track personal till launch to take care of the authenticity of his inventive imaginative and prescient.
It doesn’t matter what, Usher goes to point out up for his youngsters. The R&B crooner even hopped on a TikTok video to help his son Naviyd Raymond, who lately dropped his debut single referred to as “Easy Blues.”
Within the clip, Naviyd, who has a knack for going viral, and his dad are seen vibing to the track’s pulsing groove — and it has followers of their feels for all of the love on show.
In line with the Instagram publish he shared to announce the brand new track, Naviyd wrote and produced the document, additionally dealing with the inventive path, styling and canopy artwork.
“That is the primary track I ever produced and it’s very [special] to me so I hope you take pleasure in [it]. If not, [I don’t care, low key],” Naviyd wrote. “Thanks a lot to everybody who helped alongside the best way; it has been a protracted and tiring course of.”
Naviyd and his brother, Usher “Cinco” Raymond V, are the sons of Usher and his ex-wife Tameka Foster. Curiously, Naviyd didn’t even give his mother and father a preview of the track. “I didn’t present the track to the folks closest [to me] as a result of I didn’t need them to mess with my inventive course of,” he lately advised VIBE. “I didn’t present my mother and father; I barely confirmed my greatest pal. I needed them to listen to it with everybody else after which give their opinion as a result of then at that time, I can’t change it, after which it’s caught like how I needed it.”
He added, “I’m all the time open [to] enchancment and opinions. However on my first track, I felt like opinions from others would mess up the rawness of my imaginative and prescient, and I’d simply have catered to what others had stated.”
What he delivered was his soulful vocals over a jazzy, home music-flavored bop that clearly will get the danceability co-sign from his pricey dad, who occurs to be a music icon. It appears to be like like we will anticipate to be listening to extra from younger Naviyd.