Rico Love: "Women Want To Be Beyonce More Than They Want To Be With Jay-Z" (EXCLUSIVE)

Rico Love has a God given talent that many people envy.

Known for penning hits like Kelly Rowland's "Motivation," Usher's "There Goes My Baby," and Beyonce's "Sweet Dreams," Rico Love's ear for good music has made him one of the best songwriters in the game. 

GlobalGrind caught up with the busy songwriter to discuss his writing process, the "Beyonce" formula and of course, his music. 

Check out the exclusive interview below!

GlobalGrind: You were talking about how you felt before you got your first placement with Usher ... we wanted to ask you what were some of your insecurities before actually getting placement?

Rico Love: Actually I didn’t have any insecurities, because that was my first song I ever wrote, so I didn’t even really know about the business. If anything, I was kind of over confident because the checks I was getting. To be able to write your first song and you get a six-figure check in royalties, you're thinking as a songwriter, that every song you write, that’s what happens. I think I was over confident. Then every other record I did after that, when I would see the royalties and I saw they weren't the same, I was buggin', like somebody needs to be fired.

But it was more about, I was young and fresh and didn’t understand what I was really doing and I didn’t understand my ability, how talented I was at that time. But now I know you have to work to be great, talent it comes natural, but you got to work to be great.

So do you think it takes a different kind of mindset to be successful in the industry?

Yeah, it takes a different mindset to be successful in anything, that’s why there’s not a lot of super duper successful people because it's guys I know who may be ten times more talented than me, but they don’t work as hard. I work every single day, even on Sundays.