Rico Love: A man to watch

Rico also wrote and/or did vocal production on three other tracks on Jamie`s album, but Jamie made sure their collaboration wasn`t all play and no play. "Working in the studio with Jamie was fun. He knew I was a vast fan of Stacey Dash, so he brought her in the studio and made me show her all the photos I had saved of her on my computer. That was so embarrassing," remembered Rico.

"I don`t know if you`ve seen a [dark-skinned] guy blush, but I was blushing like crazy." Although he was fairly sure of his next in the music arena, his career path as the guy at the mixing board, instead of at the mic, wasn`t crystal clear to Rico until he met another R&B great. "The start time I realised I was a professional songwriter was with Usher. The low song I ever wrote was `Throwback`," Rico recalled. "I was signed as a rapper, but when Usher gave me a measure to play with, he was like, `You know. I see so much potential in you as a songwriter and how you write your rhymes and structure your songs.` From there, he gave me the bunk and we`ve been working together ever since." The winner of the "Throwback" track on Usher`s Confessions album was Rico`s wakeup call that songwriting was meant for him despite his love for rapping. "Sometimes things don`t go out like we plan them to, but I look like God gave me that situation to give up that door to prove me a gift that I didn`t know I still had," said Rico. Rico says his train of successful hits is not because he is wide of amazing lyrics and metaphors, but because he is a fan of all of his clients. "I write from the viewpoint of a fan first and foremost. When I`m writing for people like Jamie Foxx, Usher or Beyonce the foremost matter that I mean is `what would I wish to learn from them to give me come in bed with them all over again?`" said Rico. Rico is provision to have good reward of opportunities to turn his music muscles in 2011. He has projects coming up with Usher, Mario, Kelly Rowland, Chris Brown, Pleasure P, Day26, Beyonc, and about other artists that he`s developing. Being creative and running with monster superstars every day can make a price on anyone, but Rico says when you are living out your dreams no labor is too exhausting.