WATCH: 60 Seconds With Usher Raymond

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Usher Raymond graces the cover of the May/June issue of ESSENCE as one of the Sexiest Men of the Moment. “I think there’s a connection I feel to my audience, and a connection to the people, that’s based on my service to them,” he says. “I want to make certain that they know I’m committed to serving this art. I’m committed to working to make certain that you feel gratified, for the time that you decide to share with me.”

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00:00I'm going to be real honest with y'all today.

00:04My first celebrity crush was Chili.

00:08I think I was 11 or 12, something like that.

00:15Yeah.

00:21A talent that people would be surprised to know that I have.

00:26I'm really good at sitting in cold water.

00:30You know how people do cold dips?

00:32They really think it's weird when I do it because I'll sit in there like 10, 20 minutes.

00:39I don't really have days off.

00:42But if I choose to take some time off or not work, I'm either doing yoga or with my kids.

00:50I'm a homebody, man.

00:51I really like to be at the crib.

00:52It's the best thing for me about being a father is knowing that I could be the one that my dad couldn't be to me.

01:00I'm a homebody.

01:02Yeah.

01:03I just, I think , I'mode ya.

01:05I do.

01:06I love you.

01:07I do.

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