Usher has fired his manager Benny Medina and re-hired his former representative, Jonnetta Patton. Who also happens to be his mother. The singer ended his fifteen year professional relationship with Patton and her JPat record label in May, but has returned after poor sales of his last album, 'Here I Stand'.
Despite this, Medina says that there is no bad blood, telling People: "With an artist like Usher, the bar is set really high. Whether it was management, marketing or the music, we achieved a number one single and a number one album. It is a completely new day and time in music now. In four years, his audience, demographic, and musical direction has changed. Records like Lil Wayne's 'Lollipop' are the type of phenomena that 'Yeah' was in 2004. I had a great time and we parted ways amicably".
The singer has reportedly also ended his contract with PR firm W&W.