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Rico Love
Background information
Birth name Richard Preston Butler, Jr.
Born (1982-12-03) December 3, 1982 (age 29)
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Origin Miami, Florida, United States
Genres Hip hop, rap, R&B, pop, dance
Occupations Record producer, singer-songwriter, rapper
Years active 2003–present
Labels Division1
(label deal with Universal Motown)
Associated acts Jim Jonsin, Nelly, Usher, Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland
Website www.division1.com

Richard Preston Butler, Jr. (born December 3, 1982), better known by his stage name Rico Love, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Love wrote and produced hit records such as Usher’s "There Goes My Baby" and "Hey Daddy (Daddy's Home)”, Nelly's "Just a Dream" and "Gone", Beyoncé Knowles' "Sweet Dreams".[1][2][3] 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,[4] Usher’s 2010 Best Contemporary R&B album Raymond v Raymond,[5] and Usher's 2010 Best Male R&B Vocal Performance "There Goes My Baby".[5] In addition Love has written and produced records for Kelly Rowland,[6] Diddy Dirty Money,[7] Chris Brown,[8] Alexandra Burke, Keri Hilson,[9] Fergie,[10] and Fantasia.[11] Love is also the CEO of Division1, a record label which partnered with Universal Motown in 2010.[12] Love has appeared as a featured artist on record with T.I.,[13] Usher,[14] Jermaine Dupri,[15] Jamie Foxx,[16] Rich Boy,[17] and Fat Joe.[18]

Contents

Early life [link]

Love was born in New Orleans, LA and his parents divorced at early age.[19] As a result of the divorce Love spent his childhood growing up in two different cities, in Milwaukee, WI with his Mother and Harlem, NY with his father.[20] Love’s mother encouraged him as a child to write poetry.[21] Love wrote his own poems and went on to joining the African American Children’s Theater where he recited Langston Hughes and acted.[20][21] Love had already been writing his own poems before he was introduced to rap in his early teens.[22] By the end of high school Love had decided to pursue a career in rap but would go to college simultaneously, ‘I’m [going] to go to school instead of just sitting on the block. If I hadn’t gone to college I would’ve been a drug dealer.’[21] While in college at Florida A&M University Love stayed involved in his music by winning many rap battles and talent shows.[21] On the weekends Love would leave for Atlanta, GA for the benefit of its studios and popular music scene.[21] While visiting Atlanta Love met members of Jagged Edge who were an influence on Love’s songwriting development.[21] Love eventually left college because of a paper work error made by the college’s administration’s office.[21] Love went to live with some local Atlanta producers the Corna Boyz.[21] This relationship provided Love the opportunity to rap on a remix the producers were creating for Usher.[21] Usher liked Love’s work on the remix and eventually signed him to US Records/J Records. Usher requested Love compose lyrics for a song written by Just Blaze.[21] This song eventually became “Throwback” and was featured on Usher’s diamond selling (10x platinum) Confessions album.[21][23] Love next toured with Usher where he met and connected with many music industry players.[21] Usher encouraged Love to become a songwriter and requests for Love’s compositions began coming from artists Chris Brown, Omarion, and Marques Houston.[20][21]

Music career [link]

Solo Artist [link]

As an artist Love is both a vocalist and a rapper.[24] Love was asked by Usher to contribute to the sound track to Usher’s film In The Mix.[25] Love contributed “Settle Down”, “Sweat” featuring Usher, and “On The Grind” featuring Juelz Santana and Paul Wall.[26] Love recorded a solo album in 2007 titled The 5th Element but ultimately decided to focus on his songwriting and not release the recordings.[27] Though Love may not be recording as a solo artist he still contributes his vocals and rhymes to other artists. Love has appeared as a guest artist on songs by Fat Joe,[18] Juvenile,[28] Rich Boy,[17] Jamie Foxx,[16] T.I.,[13] and his own artist, Young Chris.[29]

Production/Songwriting [link]

Love wrote the song “Throwback” at the request of Usher which was a part of the 2004 Triple Grammy winning album Confessions.[20][30] Love also wrote “Seduction” which was a bonus track on the Confessions Special Edition release.[31] These were the first of several collaborations between the singer and the writer/producer. In September 2007 Love wrote and produced on the platinum single “Love Like This” by singer Natasha Bedingfield featuring Sean Kingston.[32][33] This song was popular with mainstream audiences reaching No. 11 on Billboard’s Hot 100.[33] The song was also a hit in dance clubs reaching number one on Billboard’s Hot Dance Club Songs.[33] In May 2008 “Energy” was released as Keri Hilson’s first single on her Gold album In a Perfect World....[34][35] The song was co-written and co-produced by Love for the Grammy nominated artist.[34] The song “Labels Or Love”, co-written and produced by Love and performed by Fergie was released in May 2008.[36] The song was featured on the deluxe version of her triple Platinum album The Dutchess and also the Gold selling soundtrack to the film Sex and The City.[10][37] Released in November of 2008, Beyoncé’s double Platinum[38] and 5x Grammy winning album I Am... Sasha Fierce[39] included four songs featuring Love’s songwriting and production.[40] Love wrote and produced on the Platinum single “Sweet Dreams” which reached No. 10 on Billboard’s Hot 100 charts.[40] Love’s work was also featured on “Scared of Lonely”, “Radio”, and “Save the Hero”.[40] By the end of 2008 in December another Love co-written and co-produced track was released as a single for the Grammy nominated artist Pleasure P.[41][42] “Boyfriend#2” reached No. 2 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop songs.[43] Love wrote and produced five songs on Mario’s D.N.A. album released in October 2009.[44] The songs included the single “Thinkin’ About You” and “Hi”, “Ooh Baby”, “Soundtrack To My Broken Heart”, and “Get Out”.[44] Love wrote and produced on his former mentor Usher’s Raymond v. Raymond album, released in March 2010.[45] The platinum and Grammy winning album featured four of Love’s compositions including two of the album’s singles.[5][46] The Love co-produced and co-written single “There Goes My Baby” was a hit and stayed at number one on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for four weeks and earned Usher a Grammy for his performance on the song.[5][47] The other single featuring Love’s writing and producing was “Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home)” which rose to number two on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-hop songs.[47] Love’s other contributions to the album included the songs “Making Love (Into the Night)” and “So Many Girls”.[45] At the end of March 2010 Love’s penned the single “Hello Good Morning” by the group Diddy-Dirty Money was released.[48] Diddy is one of Love’s mentors in the industry and he was honored to write for the performer/producer/mogul.[20] The song went on to achieve Gold status and was performed by DDM and Rico Love on season nine of American Idol.[48][49] Nelly’s 5.0 album, released in November 2010 contained eight works featuring Love’s songwriting and production skills.[50] The first single, “Just A Dream”, co-written and co-produced by Love, went platinum and landed at number three on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart.[51][52] Love also worked on the single “Gone” featuring Kelly Rowland, a follow-up to the 2002 Nelly hit “Dilemma” also featuring Rowland.[53] Love’s other work on the album were on the tracks "roke", "Making Movies", "Don't It Feel Good", "K.I.S.S.", "Nothing Without Her", and "Move That Body".[50] Love wrote, produced, and appeared as an artist on Jamie Foxx’s Best Night of My Life album released December 2010.[54] The album’s first single “Living Better Now” features Rick Ross and was co-written and co-produced by Love.[55][56] Love wrote “Freak”, which also features his appearance as an artist, and “Sex On the Beach”.[55][57][58] Love is managed by Made Communication, Miami, FL.[3]

Division 1 [link]

In November 2010 Love launched Division 1, a recording label in conjunction with Universal Motown.[12] Love’s label venture has signed the artists Young Chris, Phat Rabbit, Cherlise and Teairra Mari to their roster.[59] Love also has a production company of the same name to which he signed producers, Earl Hood, Eric Goudy, and Pierre Medor.[20][60][61]

Awards and Nominations [link]

-2009 Grammy nomination Album of the Year – Beyoncé – I Am... Sasha Fierce[62]

-2010 Billboard No. 9 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songwriter of the Year[63]

-2010 Billboard No. 6 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Producer of the Year[64]

-2010 Billboard No. 26 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Publisher of the Year[63]

-2010 Sesac Song Awards for Beyoncé’s “Sweet Dreams” and Pleasure P’s “Boyfriend #2”[65]

Songwriter Credits [link]

Year Single Chart positions Album
US Hot 100 US
R&B		 US
Rap		 US
Pop		 US
Dance		 UK
2005 "All Because of You" (Marques Houston ft. Young Rome) 69 14 – – – – Naked
2007 "I Wish You Loved Me" (Tynisha Keli) – 113 – – – – The Chronicles of Tk
"Love Like This" (Natasha Bedingfield ft. Sean Kingston) 11 – – 10 1 20 Pocket Full Of Sunshine
2008 "Energy" (Keri Hilson) – – – – – 43 In a Perfect World...
"Labels or Love" (Fergie) 89 – – – – 56 The Dutchess and Sex and the City: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
"The Greatest" (Michelle Williams) – – – – 1 – Unexpected
"Year of the Lover" (Lloyd ft. Plies) – 101 – – – – Lessons in Love
"Boyfriend No. 2" (Pleasure P) 42 2 – – – – The Introduction of Marcus Cooper
"Hello Heartbreak" (Michelle Williams) – – – – 8 – Unexpected
2009 "Shone" (Flo Rida ft. Pleasure P) 57 81 – – – – R.O.O.T.S.
"Sweet Dreams" (Beyoncé) 10 48 – 2 1 5 I Am… Sasha Fierce
"Thinkin' About You" (Mario) – 45 – – – – D.N.A.
"Somebody to Love" (Leighton Meester ft. Robin Thicke) 111 – – – – – Love Is a Drug
"Hey Daddy (Daddy's Home)" (Usher ft. Plies) 24 2 – 60 – – Raymond v. Raymond
2010 "Ooh Baby" (Mario) 95 – – – – – D.N.A.
"Hello Good Morning" (Diddy-Dirty Money ft. T.I.) 27 13 8 59 – 22 Last Train to Paris
"All Night Long" (Alexandra Burke ft. Pitbull) – – – – – 4 Overcome
"Commander" (Kelly Rowland) – – – – 1 9 Here I Am
"There Goes My Baby" (Usher) 25 1 – – – 138 Raymond v. Raymond
"Just a Dream" (Nelly) 3 – 6 2 – 8 5.0
2011
"Gone" (Nelly ft. Kelly Rowland) 113 55 – – – 58 5.0
"Motivation" (Kelly Rowland ft. Lil Wayne) 17 1 – 24 – 169 Here I Am
"Promise" (Romeo Santos featuring Usher) 83 – – – – – Formula, Vol. 1
"Mr. Wrong" (Mary J. Blige featuring Drake) 87 15 – – – – My Life II... The Journey Continues (Act 1)
2012 "Touch'n You" (Rick Ross featuring Usher) 102 33 25 – – – God Forgives, I Don't

Discography [link]

Musical Influences/Techniques [link]

Love has cited various artists as influences such as Usher who originally signed Love, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, Queen, Smokey Robinson, Elton John, and Miles Davis.[20][21][66]

Love has explained when composing he does not write lyrics down or even spend many hours working on songs.[3] He simply listens to a beat and then sings what comes to him.[21] He was quoted as learning this technique from Jagged Edge.[20][21] Love claims that his technique gives him the ability to write songs very quickly which affords him the opportunity to place more songs on any single album than what most writers could.[20]

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Yi Xing

Yi Xing (Chinese: 一行; pinyin: Yī Xíng; Wade–Giles: I-Hsing, 683–727), born Zhang Sui (Chinese: 張遂), was a Chinese astronomer, mathematician, mechanical engineer and Buddhist monk of the Tang dynasty (618–907). His astronomical celestial globe featured a clockwork escapement mechanism, the first in a long tradition of Chinese astronomical clockworks.

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Terrestrial-astronomical survey

In the early 8th century, the Tang court put Yi Xing in charge of a terrestrial-astronomical survey. This survey had many purposes. It was established in order to obtain new astronomical data that would aid in the prediction of solar eclipses. The survey was also initiated so that flaws in the calendar system could be corrected and a new, updated calendar installed in its place. The survey was also essential in determining the measurement of the length of meridian arc. This would resolve the confusion created by the earlier practice of using the difference between shadow lengths of the sun observed at the same time at two places to determine the ground distance between them. This was the same process used by the ancient Greek Eratosthenes (276–196 BC).

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Heart sounds

Heart sounds are the noises generated by the beating heart and the resultant flow of blood through it. Specifically, the sounds reflect the turbulence created when the heart valves snap shut. In cardiac auscultation, an examiner may use a stethoscope to listen for these unique and distinct sounds that provide important auditory data regarding the condition of the heart.

In healthy adults, there are two normal heart sounds often described as a lub and a dub (or dup), that occur in sequence with each heartbeat. These are the first heart sound (S1) and second heart sound (S2), produced by the closing of the AV valves and semilunar valves, respectively. In addition to these normal sounds, a variety of other sounds may be present including heart murmurs, adventitious sounds, and gallop rhythms S3 and S4.

Heart murmurs are generated by turbulent flow of blood, which may occur inside or outside the heart. Murmurs may be physiological (benign) or pathological (abnormal). Abnormal murmurs can be caused by stenosis restricting the opening of a heart valve, resulting in turbulence as blood flows through it. Abnormal murmurs may also occur with valvular insufficiency (regurgitation), which allows backflow of blood when the incompetent valve closes with only partial effectiveness. Different murmurs are audible in different parts of the cardiac cycle, depending on the cause of the murmur.

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What do you do
when the girl you want she doesn't want you to
and what do you do
when she says she only wanna be friends with you
girl, its not fair
how our love could feel this way
i shouldn't care
cuz if she only heard me say...
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i wanna love you love you girl
kiss and hug make you my world
ill treat you right you know i will
ima show you girl how i really feel
i wanna love you love you girl
kiss and hug make you my world
ill treat you right you know i will
ima show you girl how i really feel, yeah
now wont you calm yourself down get out your house
ohhh girl
come on over to my place
cuz ima turn that frown oh upside down
bbabyyy
ill put a smile on your face
cuz its not fair
how our love could feel this way
i shouldn't care
cuz if she only heard me say
i wanna love you love you girl
kiss and hug make you my world
ill treat you right you know i will
ima show you girl how i really feel
i wanna love you love you girl
kiss and hug make you my world
ill treat you right you know i will
ima show you girl how i really feel
i wanna love you love you girl
kiss and hug make you my world
ill treat you right you know i will
ima show you girl how i really feel
i wanna love you love you girl
kiss and hug make you my world
ill treat you right you know i will
ima show you girl how i really feel, yeah
love you girrll
ima show you girl




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