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Rico Love Biography

Richard "Rico" Preston Butler, Jr. (born December 3, 1982), better known by his stage name Rico Love, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and rapper. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, but split his childhood between Milwaukee, Wisconsin and New York City's Harlem neighborhood. He attended Florida A&M and, while visiting Atlanta, Georgia, worked his way into the music industry through connections with Usher, who would become Love's mentor. The first song Love ever wrote in his career was "Throwback" for which ended up on Usher's 2004 album "Confessions." Love success continued writing and producing hit records such as Usher's "There Goes My Baby" and "Hey Daddy (Daddy's Home)", Nelly's "Just a Dream" and "Gone", as well as Beyoncé Knowles' "Sweet Dreams". and has contributed to works which have gone on to win Grammys such as Beyoncé's 2009 Best Contemporary R&B album I Am... Sasha Fierce, Usher's 2010 Best Contemporary R&B album Raymond v. Raymond, and Usher's 2010 Best Male R&B Vocal Performance "There Goes My Baby". In addition Love has written and produced records for Kelly Rowland, Diddy – Dirty Money, Chris Brown, Alexandra Burke, Keri Hilson, Fergie, and Fantasia.

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It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

Firsts, Gift, Good, Heard, Song, Writing

I do music based upon who I like and who I think has the potential to win. I don't really judge them by "Oh somebody is hot right now". If I think the music is dope and I think the potential is there, I want to do it.

Dope, Potential, Right, Think, Thinking, Winning

I feel like all of my records have potential to be hits. Sometimes it's promotion, sometimes it's bad timing, but yeah I take it very personally. I'm very hard on myself when it comes to my records. I really believe that if it's not number one, I've failed.

Believe, Personally, Promotion, Records, Sometimes, Timing

I'm very competitive; it's not enough just to have a few number ones. I want to have 200.

Competitive, Enough, Number, Numbers, Ones, Want

I watch artists say they wrote all these songs and don't mention anybody else who was involved, and that's fine. I don't expect an artist to give me credit. I know that they're gonna take the credit for everything. But, it's my job to give myself that exposure and not make excuses, not grow bitter.

Artist, Involved, Job, Jobs, Say, Song

I work every single day, even on Sundays.

Day, Single, Sunday, Sundays, Work

I really was kind of like a musical nerd. I would watch VH1's 'Behind The Music. ' That was heavy when I was a kid. I would sit up and want to watch that all day instead of going outside sometimes.

Day, Kids, Music, Musical, Nerd

AC
DC, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper - I learned stories of all these guys. That's when I fell in love with Queen, which is one of my favorite bands of all time. . . I started paying attention to what made music good. I started paying attention to why I liked it.

Attention, Fell, Guy, Queens, Stories

Brandy is one of my favorite vocalists. Jay-Z is my favorite emcee outside of Biggie.

Biggie, Emcee, Favorite, My Favorite, Vocalists

I really want to work with Rufus Wainwright. Michael Stipe from R. E. M. I would love to work with Kanye West.

Kanye, Love, Rufus, Want, West

There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.

Artist, Artists, Business, Make, People, Upset

I don't take off as many days as most other producers and songwriters, so I'm working every single day, and I do songs every day. So it's just about finding time, scheduling, getting in and cutting the records. I make it happen and that's the name of the game. It's no excuses - you gotta figure it out.

Cutting, Days, Excuse You, Excuses, Records, Song

I always say this to people: 'If Shaq can be in the NBA for 19 years and dominate for 19 years using his body, why can't I be in the music industry for 50 years using my brain when my brain is way stronger than anyone's body?' I have to have a successful record company, more hit records. I want to dominate the game.

Body, Game, Music, Nba, Successful, Years

It takes a different mindset to be successful in anything; that's why there's not a lot of super duper successful people, because it's guys I know who may be ten times more talented than me, but they don't work as hard.

Duper, Guy, Guys, People, Successful

I listen to all types of different music. I go to different festivals. I'm around music.

Different, Festivals, Listen, Type

It's just a lot of fun to be able to see your ideas come into fruition. And to see people translate the things that come out of my mind vocally. And to be able to produce vocals and give people my point of view musically. And to be able to sit in the crowd and see people sing the song that I wrote, it's an amazing feeling.

Fun, Give, Song, Translate, Views, Vocals