One of his more well known commercial hits is the song “Everytime I Close My Eyes” which features Mariah Carey on background vocals and Kenny G on the saxophone. As the story goes, Mariah appeared on the song to provide the background vocals as...
Fresh off our interview with Jon B. recently, here is an exclusive song he provided to us to premiere. This is his cover of Michael Jackson’s “Rock With You” as a tribute. As a bonus, Jon B. also performs this song live during many of his...
A little known fact about Musiq’s hit “Love” was that the title was supposed to originally be “Lord,” but he did not want to be seen as gospel artist so he changed it. If you substitute the word Lord for Love in the lyrics, you can...
Tonight Raheem DeVaughn released a free mixtape called “Mr. February aka March Madness.” This is a nice little treat to hold us over until his forthcoming double disc album “The Love & War Masterpiece” which will be released on March...
Remarkable” from Jaheim’s debut album is a beautiful love song and great example of this timeless music. It might be coincidence, but I felt his best three songs from his debut “Ghetto Love” were “Anything,” “Just in...
R&B and Soul music lost a legend yesterday with the passing of Teddy Pendergrass. In addition to the greatness that was his own music, it’s also amazing to look at how many other artists he’s influenced that are active today. He will definitely be...
Although it’s hard to define his “early” career by one hit song, “Bump N’ Grind” can pretty much summarize the type of music you expected to hear from R. Kelly prior to totally changing up his style. The single was Kelly’s...
Thus far, I’ve featured the solo careers of two out of the three original members of Playa on the site. Now, here is a song from the third member of the group, Digital Black from his 2004 album “Memoirs of an R&B Thug.” When I was first listening...
Former B2K lead singer Omarion recently released his 3rd solo album “Ollusion” and “On My Grind” is a bonus track from that project which features Tank.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpugp6DIb3I How many groups can claim that they had five #1 r&b singles, let alone five out of the first six singles they released reaching #1? En Vogue did, with their first three singles from their debut reaching #1 (followed by...
