Rare Gem: Pleasure P – Say Yes

Rare Gem: Pleasure P – Say Yes

For some reason, it feels like Pleasure P doesn’t get the credit he deserves as a solo artist. His debut album was actually solid and the quality of the music was on-par, if not better than some of his competitors. “Say Yes” is an unreleased track...
Rare Gem: Blaque – Questions

Rare Gem: Blaque – Questions

Here is a song from Blaque’s second album which was only released in Japan. Some of you may probably be saying, “Wait a minute, iTunes released the album in 2007”. This is true. However, iTunes also cut the tracklist from 15 songs to 11 and...
Rare Gems: Jack Herrera (Jon B.’s Group) – Deja Vu & Jewels

Rare Gems: Jack Herrera (Jon B.’s Group) – Deja Vu & Jewels

As if the whole Jack Herrera project wasn’t rare enough, here are two tracks that were left off the “Retro Futuristico” album which was eventually became shelved and has lived on to be a gem itself. If you aren’t familiar with Jack Herrera, Jon...
Rare Gem: Ginuwine – Let’s Stop Effin Around

Rare Gem: Ginuwine – Let’s Stop Effin Around

A young Ginuwine recorded this track as part of DeVante Swing’s Da Bassment back in the mid 90’s. Music like this is timeless, and if he recorded this song today it would still be relevant in my opinion.
Rare Gem: Joe – Beautiful

Rare Gem: Joe – Beautiful

This song released a few years ago and was the sole new song on Joe’s greatest hits album in 2008. For the true fan of an artist who has all of their material and doesn’t make sense to buy a greatest hits album, you might miss out on songs like this.

Rare Gem: Deborah Bond – Keep On

Coming from New Haven, Connecticut Deborah Bond brings a very unique soultry sound to the music scene. “Keep On” was released on Deborah’s Debut album “Day After” in 2003. Three years later, Deborah released “After Day” a...