Many critics have deeded Keyshia Cole’s Just Like You album a daughter to Mary J Blige’s personal My Life album.

“I remember when I’d be with my friends / You checked on me and made time to call / But how things have changed? - now I don’t hear from you at all,” she sings. Starting with dramatic strings and a sizzling sound effect, the R&B veteran dwindles out of love with a man who isn’t who she first fell in love with. Harris (Writers) Soulshock and Karlin (Producers)Īfter sharing the spotlight with some of hip-hop’s OG’s (Missy Elliott, Lil’ Kim, and Too $hort) on the first two tracks of Just Like You, Keyshia takes on “Fallin’ Out” by herself and unleashes a bottle of emotions on the way things used to be with her lover. “Fallin Out” from the album Just Like You (2007)Ĭredits: Keyshia Cole, Soulshock, K. “If you’d be cool with me / You’ll see, that I’m all you need and all that you dream / And never would leave, you’ll be by my side forever / Swear to God we’ll grow old together, then reality would be you and me,” she sings.ģ. Over a slow-burning instrumental, and singing with unfledged vocals, Keyshia pictures a perfect life with a friend she wants to pursue a deeper connection with. Have you ever wanted to take a friendship to the next level with someone? Keyshia shared those same feelings on this silky track off her debut album. (Writers) Errol “Poppi” McCalla Jr., Ron Flair (Producers) “We Could Be” from the album The Way It Is (2005)Ĭredits: Keyshia Cole, Errol “Poppi” McCalla Jr. “You gotta know your focus in life / And if love is your focus /Then man pay attention,” she says.Ģ. Now that the relationship has ended, Keyshia offers a word of advice to listeners who still believe in a happily-ever-afters. Sampling “ Love Jones” by Brighter Side of Darkness, Keyshia finds herself interrogating love for not holding up its end of the bargain after her latest love affair blew up in flames. Keyshia Cole proved this on fan-favorite and one of her best post-breakup anthems, “Love, Thought You Had My Back.”

“Love, I Thought You Had My Back” from the album The Way It Is (2005)Ĭredits: Keyshia Cole, Randolph Murph, Ralph Eskridge, Clarence Johnson Jr, Frederick Taylor (Writers) Ron Fair and Toxic (Producers)įor an artist who sings directly from their soul, being pitch-perfect doesn’t normally matter. (Side note: This list of songs does not include material from her Point of No Return album or her latest album 11:11 Reset, which she plans to repackage with three new songs.)ġ. We even share a love lesson or two about some of these records. Take a look at our list of Cole’s ten most slept-on records.

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