Category Archives: Best of the Rest
Best of the Rest: Keyshia Cole’s We Could Be
For 9 straight tracks, Keyshia Cole’s The Way It Is is note-for-note a perfect embodiment of adolescent heartbreak (nearly matching Brandy’s 10-track run on Never Say Never). We Could Be is track 8, so its understandable that it gets lost … Continue reading
Best of the Rest: Usher’s Separated
Like Brandy, Usher makes fantastic single choices most of the time. But the biggest mistake he made in his career was not making Separated a single. In fact, the song only appears on the UK version of 8701. Separated is … Continue reading
Best of the Rest: Adina Howard’s Buttnaked
This was a no-brainer. Adina’s catalog is much deeper than folks think, but there is nothing like Buttnaked in it. And for that reason, I had to include it. Buttnaked is, hands down, one of the most romantic songs I’ve … Continue reading
Best of the Rest: Playa’s Birthday
Choosing an album track to highlight from the Playa catalog is stupid hard. They literally have not recorded a single thing that I haven't loved. I initially wanted to highlight an unreleased song, LUST, which surfaced on Black's 2004 solo … Continue reading
Best of the Rest: Nicolay featuring Yahzarah Adore
Yahzarah is a singer's singer. The kind of woman who genuinely does damage to a song and it feels like no one else could do what she does. She's major. Featured on the standout track on producer Nicolay's 2005 album, … Continue reading