Usher’s car was reportedly robbed of $1 million worth of Christmas presents about a month ago, including furs, jewelry and clothing and $20,000 worth of cash. This report sounds suspicious to me due to the added detail that two laptops were stolen that just happened to contain “the only versions of vocal tracks that have never been heard before.” Doesn’t that sound a little too convenient? Like who only keeps one copy of such important files? Usher was in Atlanta parked across from a mall when the goods were lifted.

R&B singer Usher had over $1 million worth of Christmas gifts — as well as laptops containing the only copies of new tracks he was working on — stolen from his car last month, reported Access Hollywood.

According to an Atlanta police report, the singer’s GMC Yukon was broken into on December 14 and over a million dollars worth of jewelry, $50,000 in furs and clothing and about $20,000 in cash were snatched.

But he told police he was most upset about the loss of two laptops, as they contained the only versions of vocal tracks that have never been heard before.

A witness reportedly saw a man pull up to the vehicle and break into the car.

The alleged incident is currently under investigation.

[From Parade]

Usher’s sixth album, Raymond vs. Raymond, is due out in February. Two singles have been released so far, Papers and Hey Daddy, and neither have done particularly well. Hey Daddy, out last month, peaked at 94 on the Billboard 100 while Papers, out in October, fared better at 31 and number 1 on the R&B chart.

It just strikes me as strange that Usher’s songs were stolen and that there are no other copies available. Maybe we’ll hear that his CD release date will be pushed back after the tracks were “stolen.” Also, who keeps $20,000 in cash in their car? It all has the whiff of fraud about it. It could have happened that way, though. Someone might have robbed Usher’s SUV full of loot along with his laptops. The fact that we didn’t hear about it for a month makes it seem more legitimate, like he didn’t plan it that way. The way I envision it, Usher was legitimately robbed but then he figured that he’d claim that the car contained laptops with some new never-before-heard tracks. That way, he could buy some more time on his album. Or maybe he just left a car full of a million bucks of stuff sitting across the street from a mall and was dumb enough to leave his computers and important files in there too.