In his conversation with Billboard, he likened his music to Picasso's Blue Period, when the famous painter spent several years creating work with only a limited number of colors. '[I'm] a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste,' he said.
Nooo is this Usher? The same Usher whose artistic and commercial peak was singing about "making love" in the clubs all night long?
