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Usher’s New Album ‘Hard II Love’ Is Here Early (on Tidal)

The singer's eighth studio album releases ahead of its scheduled Friday date.

Hard II Love, Usher's first album since 2012's Looking 4 Myself, was due out this Friday, September 16. But releasing albums on a pre-arranged date on a number of formats is now so very 2012; the album dropped on Tidal late last night and you can listen to it there right now.

The record features production from Metro Boomin, The-Dream, and Tricky Stewart. "No Limit," the album's first single, released back in June, features Young Thug in some sort of auto-tuned utopia while "Rivals," a track we heard last month, features brings Future into the sweaty grind for a bit.

Listen to it below if you have Tidal​. If you don't, this is awkward.