Usher Rehires His Mom as Manager

Usher's mom is the R&B star's manager once again.

"Usher has dissolved his management arrangement with Benny Medina and has re-engaged Jonnetta Patton as his manager," his rep said in a statement Wednesday.

In July, it was reported that Usher was disappointed that his CD "Here I Stand" sold 433,000 copies in its first week, compared with his last CD, 2004's "Confessions," which had sales of 1.1. million its first seven days.

According to a source, "He wanted her to come back on board and she decided to. He had really poor management and wanted her back."

In his own statement, Medina said Wednesday, "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."

Usher's publicist, Patti Webster, also resigned on Aug. 1.

In 2007, it was claimed the 'Yeah!' hitmaker ended his 15-year working relationship with Patton because she did not get along with his wife Tameka Foster.

But the new dad, 29, recently denied the claims, telling Vibe magazine, "I decided to not fire, not get rid of, but to give [my mother] the ultimate compliment — to retire her to be a full-time grandmother.

"My mother and I decided to change her situation, together," he added. "There was a conversation. I didn't write her a letter or pink slip her."