'' credits and personnel ; recording and mixing recorded at jungle city studios , new york city ; doppler studios , atlanta , georgia ; glenwood place studios , burbank , california ; instrument zoo , miami , florida ; mixed at larrabee sound studio , universal city , california ; personnel songwriting -- rico love , salaam remi , terry lewis , usher raymond iv production -- salaam remi co-producer -- rico love mixing -- manny marroquin mixing assistants -- chris galland , delbert bowers recording -- gleyder '' gee '' disla , mark '' exit '' goodchild recording assistants -- alex fremin , jacob dennis , max unruh , ramon rivas bass , keyboards , guitar , drums -- salaam remi saxophone -- vincent henry strings -- czech film orchestra credits adapted from the liner notes of looking 4 myself , rca records .