Fugees - "Killing Me Softly With His Song"
Brandy & Monica - "The Boy Is Mine"
Mary J Blige - "Family Affair"
Eve - "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" (feat Gwen Stefani)
Christina Aguilera - "Genie In A Bottle"
En Vogue - "Don't Let Go (Love)"
Toni Braxton - "Breathe Again"
Mark Morrison - "Return Of The Mack"
Ini Kamoze - "Here Comes The Hotstepper"
Dawn Penn - "You Don't Love Me"
Jennifer Lopez - "I'm Into You"
Naughty Boy & Emeli Sande - "Wonder"
Ariana Grande - "Thank U, Next"
Fergie - "Big Girls Don't Cry (Personal)"
Timberland & Onerepublic - "Apologize"
All Saints - "Never Ever"
Montell Jordan - "This Is How We Do It"
Blackstreet & Dr Dre - "No Diggity"
Salt-N-Pepa - "Let's Talk About Sex"
Shanice - "I Love Your Smile"
Bobby Brown - "Every Little Step"
Chaka Kan - "I'm Every Woman"
Eternal - "I Wanna Be The Only One" (feat Bebe Winans)
Soul II Soul & Caron Wheeler - "Back To Life (However Do You Want Me)"
The Family Stand - "Ghetto Heaven"
Ten City - "That's The Way Love Is"
Boyz II Men & Michael Bivins - "Motownphilly"
Cleopatra - "Cleopatra's Theme"
Diana King - "Ain't Nobody"
M People - "Don't Look Any Further"
Shola Ama - "You Might Need Somebody"
K-CI & Jojo - "All My Life"
Another Level - "Freak Me"
LL Cool J - "I Need Love"
Whitney Houston - "It's Not Right But It's Okay"
Britney Spears - "Boys" (feat Pharrell Williams)
Nelly Furtado & Timbaland - "Promiscuous"
The Black Eyed Peas - "Don't Phunk With My Heart"
BOB - "Nothin' On You" (feat Bruno Mars)
The Pussycat Dolls - "StickWitU"
Ceelo Green - "Forget You"
Flo Rida - "Right Round" (feat Kesha)
Jessie J - "Do It Like A Dude"
Nelly - "Country Grammar"
PINK - "Get The Party Started"
Mary Mary - "Shackles (Praise You)"
Jennifer Hudson - "Spotlight"
Jordin Sparks - "Battlefield"
Blazin' Squad - "Crossroads"
Mario - "Let Me Love You"
The Tony Rich Project - "Nobody Knows"
Review: Stretched across three discs, this deliberately classics-heavy compilation does a decent job in joining the dots between r&b in the modern sense of the term (I.E smooth and soulful vocal workouts underpinned by hip-hop style beats) with the original American definition (music of black origin). In practice, that means hits by Fugees, Usher, Toni Braxton, Brandi & Monica and En Vogue sitting side by side with Chaka Khan, Whitney Houston, the formative house brilliance of Ten City, the UKG-adjacent exploits of Craig David and Blazin' Squad, the pop-tastic songs of Pussycat Dolls, Cleopatra and Britney Spears, the street soul of Soul II Soul, and the tear-jerking reggae brilliance of Dawn Penn.
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