Written by Ivan Barias, Carvin Haggins (as Carvin 'Ransum' Haggins), Johnnie Smith, Miguel (as Miguel Jontel Pimentel), Musiq Soulchild (as Taalib Johnson) & John Lawson 2009 13. Hits after hits has proven to us just how magical the Musiq is. A dynamic talent in his generation, and capturing the essence of 'brown love' in the music of R&B! Now, let's move into the realm of this love for the top 10 hits of this child, a musical Soulchild!
With the release of Musiq Soulchild’s seventh album “Life on Earth” today, it’s a good time to look back on his career and pick out the Top 10 Best Songs of his career. With many timeless hits and countless impactful songs in his decade and a half career so far, putting together this list is not an easy task.
However we look to identify the singles and album cuts that were the most impactful and still stand the test of time. As we’ve done with a few artists before, here is our personal ranking of Musiq’s best songs.
As always, let us know where you agree or disagree! 10) The single that started it all for Musiq Soulchild, this song was included on The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps soundtrack as well as his debut album Aijuswanaseing. 9) 143 Another song from Musiq’s debut album, this one was a real standout album cut. 8) PreviousCats This Eric Roberson song was a standout from Musiq’s sophomore album “JusListen” and is also a staple during his live shows. 7) This touching ballad was one of Musiq’s most successful and the second single from his fourth album “LuvAnMusiq”. 6) Musiq’s original collaboration partners Carvin & Ivan helped craft this unique jam which was a standout from his “SoulStar” album. 5) Another of Musiq’s timeless ballads, “SoBeautiful” was the second single from his fifth album “OnMyRadio”.
4) Musiq showed his hip hop roots over the Da La Soul sample for this unique uptempo friend anthem. 3) Another timeless ballad with a touching video, this was the second single from his album “Juslisen”. 2) Musiq chose “HalfCrazy” as the first single from “Julisen” and it became one of his most successful. 1) This Dre & Vidal produced song has gone on to be one of Musiq’s most successful and memorable. It was included on his debut. Honorable Mention -Yes -If U Leave (featuring Mary J.
Blige) -Girl Next Door -Who Knows -Ms. Philadelphia -I Do Tagged. Music is always a matter of opinions and personal taste. This list is just wrong. If I’d never listened to Musiq Soulchild, then I wouldn’t think he was all that based of this list. Here’s the TRUTH: 1) Whoknows How this only made yout ‘honourable mentions’ is gobsmacking to me.
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His best work. 2) Betterman This one’s not even on your back-up list. This is classic Musiq doing one of his less slow joints. 3) Just Friends (Sunny) The song that broke Musiq and his song style. Never gets old and a real neo soul classic.
4) 143 Just love the way that this song slowly builds to a full “I love you” admission at the end. 5) Newness Again, not even on your back-up list. So, so, so smooth and really captures the feeling of a new flame.
6) Youloveme Now it’s becoming all too clear how different our tastes in Musiq’s music is. Yet ANOTHER that doesn’t even get an honourable mention from you, yet is firmly in my top 10. The bridge just makes this song for me.
7) Anything Far from typical Musiq Soulchild, but an absolute banger in its own right. A feature from Swizz Beatz and guess what – not even a mention from you. 8) Speechless My sentiments exactly that this awesome cut didn’t get so much of a shout out from you. Such a stylish tune. 9) Ifuleave Yes, at least this got an honourable mention from you. Incredibly underrated duet that most people are sleepin’ on.
10) Girl Next Door Just love the slow, summer vibe to this one. Love the production on this one. Good to see you at least gave it a mention – despite it not making your top 10. So there we have it. We only share two selections in our ‘Top 10s’. It’s all love though!
This volume in Universal's extensive line of anthologies (released digitally as ) covers the three albums released on Def Soul: (2000), (2002), and (2003). It's useful for casual fans of the singer, as it contains all seven of the charting singles from the releases and adds a handful of deeper cuts. Four of these songs - specifically 'Just Friends (Sunny),' 'Love,' 'Halfcrazy,' and 'Dontchange' - reached the Top Ten of Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart and made one of the most successful mature R&B artists of the early aughts. While it covers only a fraction of 's career, it does so with straightforward accuracy.