In 1990 the R&B band Guy released their second album – it was titled ‘The Future’ and it went Platinum in sales volume. My favorite song from that album was this song Let’s Chill. I was just a budding romantic eighteen year old back then; always looking for the next girlfriend, and I remember dedicating [...]
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Finding God in R&B: Musiq Soulchild “Love”
One of my all-time favorite R&B albums is Aijuswanaseing by Musiq Soulchild, who also happens to be one of my favorite artists as well. For the longest time I never got past tracks two through four (‘Girl Next Door’ – featuring Ayana, ‘You And Me’, and ‘Just Friends’); I would just keep playing those over [...]
Finding God in Musicals: “Grease, Summer Nights”
I really do love musicals. I wish life were more like them; like people just spontaneously breaking out in relevant choreographed song and dance at different parts of the day. That would be awesome! I bet Heaven is like that. You wouldn’t think a song about two teenagers relishing in their summer romance would have [...]
Finding God in R&B: Kem “Share My Life”
It was around the time of my courtship with the woman who I called ‘The One’ that I first heard this song by Kem, and it was ironic to me that it captured me at that time, because inasmuch as we seemed perfect for each other, we unspokenly were beginning to find that our relationship [...]
Finding God in R&B: John Legend “Each Day Gets Better”
I never really thought much of the musician John Legend until very recently. I simply dismissed him as just some local artist from the Dayton, Ohio area here that I heard could play the piano really well. Then last year, a good friend of mine, Saudia Mills, herself a brilliant songstress, writer, and actor, told [...]
Finding God in Rap: Skee-Lo “I Wish”
One of my favorite Rap Songs from the second generation of Rap/Hip Hop Artists was this throwback to clean fantasy lyrics called “I Wish” by Chicago native Skee-Lo. The song starts off with a DJ from the imaginary station called WSKEE (a play on his name) taking calls on what is called the ‘Wish Line’. [...]
Finding God in R&B: Babyface “Soon as I Get Home”
I’ve always enjoyed the blog Twisted Mystics for their attempt to demonstrate how it is that we can hardly sing a song without singing about God, more especially a love song. Even in a song with evil lyrics, we can still see God through the opposite lenses. But because that blog almost never talks about [...]
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