According to Sk8brd

Pharrell‘s having one hell of a year, and we’re only a few months in. He racked up 4 Grammy awards in February, performed at the Oscars (and nearly won one), had his hit single, “Happy”, become the #1 song in America, and most recently, he covered GQ‘s April “Style Issue” (a day before news of his official deal with Adidas broke).

In his GQ cover story, which featured their staff writer, Zach Baron, conversing with the certified hitmaker as he perused the streets of his hometown of Miami. They talked about everything from losing that Oscar to “Frozen” (#HowSway), and coming up in Virginia under Timbaland, and the first time he saw a crowd of people go crazy to one of his records (Noreaga “SuperThug”).

Among the topics discussed was a phone conversation Pharrell had with Usher in Baron’s presence, which centered around Usher crafting the release, and shooting the video for a new song Pharrell produced, reportedly called “Year Of The Horse”.

“What I wanted to intimate to you is,” Pharrell is saying, “if the record comes out one month from now, the video comes out two months from now—you’re not late.”

Okay, so: a song, one that Pharrell is apparently producing, “Year of the Horse.” Chinese New Year is next Friday, and Usher’s worried about missing it entirely. But, Pharrell is saying, the Year of the Horse lasts all year! Usher will be fine. Then he listens for a while. “Go and shoot the video,” Pharrell says finally. “That’s the only thing that I beg of you.”

Okay, so: a song and then a video. Usher talks for a bit, and then Pharrell cuts in again. “Look at what happened when Ginuwine did ‘Pony’ and he had the mechanical bull.” Classic music video Pharrell’s talking about here: Ginuwine saunters into a scuzzy roadhouse and commences a sexy, open-shirt routine right there on the stage. Then one of Ginuwine’s lady friends mounts a mechanical bull.

“Now, that was Ginuwine. We’re talking about you, and bringing you to the rodeo world with a record that gives you the license to do that.”