Perhaps the true test of a classic is this: something that's commonplace now but at the time appeared revolutionary. The notion that a female R&B singer could be as informed by the Real Roxanne, as she was by Aretha Franklin, that she could give love to the streets and the roughnecks--while still delivering soul-drenched love songs that came from that wounded womanly space--was, in a word, groundbreaking. It was the sound of the New Jills, and of a new genre, aptly called hip-hop soul. --Amy Linden

Tracklist:

• Leave a Message

• Reminisce

• Real Love

• You Remind Me

• Intro Talk

• Sweet Thing

• Love No Limit

• I Don't Want to Do Anything

• Slow Down

• My Love

• Changes I've Been Going Through

• What's the 411?