Our first guest is many things.
He's an eight time Grammy award winner, an actor, a father,
and a philanthropist.
Please welcome my friend, Usher.
Hi Usher.
Hey, love.
How are you?
I'm good.
Or should I call you Cha Cha?
Last time you were here we played "Spill the Tea"
and I found out your nickname was Cha Cha.
Yeah, you know what?
I gave you Cha Cha.
I got a new one for you this time.
OK.
Big Time.
OK.
So if not Cha Cha, Big Time.
That's my nickname.
And only family calls me Big Time.
All right.
Well, I'm going to call you Big Time
because I'm like your family.
So--
So how are you love?
A lot has changed since you were here last March.
You got a little baby girl.
Yes.
Sovereign Bo Raymond, yeah.
Look at that.
She looks like a little porcelain doll.
She doesn't even look real.
Yeah, sometimes, and then you believe that until you
have to change her diaper.
Yeah, yeah.
Look at that picture.
Wow.
So she was actually due four days ago,
but she was born six weeks ago?
Yeah, she came out early.
She was scheduled to be a Scorpio
but decided she had a different plan.
Libras, they kind of have their minds made up
what they want to do.
And it's funny because the umbilical cord was wrapped
around her wrists, so she's pulling the thing like,
"Pull me out of here.
It's time to go."
Wow, wow.
And her name is what?
Sovereign Bo Raymond.
Well, congratulations.
You look like you're just so happy.
And the boys now, how are they doing
with having a little sister?
No, they're coping well.
Very, very excited about being big brothers.
Usher is the oldest of the two.
But they're a little bit too protective, even with me
sometimes.
But as they get older, I'm less cool of a dad.
So now I'm starting this whole cycle over again,
and I'm kind of the apple of her eye right now.
Yeah, and you always will be.
I cannot believe how much they've grown.
I mean, the last time I saw them they were here in the audience
watching you perform, and they were five years old, four
or five years old.
Time flies, man.
Time flies.
Yeah, and your mom must be so excited to have
a granddaughter.
Oh, my God, my mother is-- let me tell you
a funny thing about my mom.
So my mom, with all of the kids, she gives them their own room.
So Usher has his room.
My brother, his daughter Star, she has her own room,
and my son Naviyd has his room.
So I'm like, "Well, mom, you're out of space.
What are you going to do?"
She's like, "Oh, no, no, no, no.
She's going to have a room.
She's just going to take your room."
Oh.
And now she's kicked me out.
I'm sleeping on the couch, and Sovereign,
she now has my old bedroom.
Well, you don't mind that I'm sure.
No, that's cool.
So you took-- I think this is when you called me.
You were on the road.
You were taking a little road trip with your girlfriend,
and you took her camping while she was pregnant.
Is that a good idea?
At the time, it seemed like the right thing
to do to kind of get away.
And I got this thing.
I think that we have to find ourselves
through getting in the car and just driving.
So I mean, what better way to get
to know the world than to go city to city
and get to know people?
So we took this trip up to Yosemite,
and I built this Jeep that's amazing.
It's got a tent on the top of it.
Amazing.
By the way, I got a phobia of tents in the normal sense.
I don't really trust them on the ground,
so I built a Jeep that has a tent on the top of it
for safety.
Yeah, there it is.
Is that your tent?
That's my tent.
That's my home wherever I am.
Oh, my God.
That's fantastic.
I love that.
Thank you.
I need to get one of those.
A little time away to just kind of enjoy.
It was a silver lining in the midst
of all that's happening in the world
right now, just to be able to get away and enjoy it.
And then the ultimate silver lining is Sovereign Bo Raymond.
Yeah.
So really happy to be new parents.
Yeah, that's so fantastic.
I've heard some of your music that you released,
which I really like a lot.
It's really different.
And I love the music, but when are we going to get an album?
You ask me this every time I'm here.
It's coming.
It's coming, Ellen.
And that's what you say every time.
I've said that for the last year, maybe two.
Right.
Do you want to sing a little sample of something
that we're going to have?
Oh, man.
Well, there's two songs already.
You got Bad Habits.
"I love love, I know I've been bad at it."
You got that one.
And I've got some new things coming.
I mean, it has been a very eventful year for me.
I just announced my Vegas residency next year in July.
Really looking forward to that.
An album hopefully at the top of next year.
But new music videos.
Man, just really enjoying being with my family right
now until we get started for next year.
Yeah, that's going to be amazing.
I can't wait to see, because you're such a great performer.
That Vegas residency is going to be so cool.
We'll take a break.
We'll be back with Usher.
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God.