Urban Music 2000 - New Music Releases - Week of December 16, 2008

John Legend - Evolver

The album Evolver features superstars Kanye West, Andre 3000 and Estelle. The album's first single 'Green Light' impacted Urban & Rhythm formats August 19th, 2008.

1. A Different Me
2. Make Me Over
3. Please Don't Stop
4. Erotic
5. You Complete Me
6. No Other
7. Oh-oh, Yeah-yea
8. Playa Cardz Right
9. Brand New
10. Trust
11. Thought You Should Know
12. This Is Us
13. Where This Love Could End Up
14. Beautiful Music
15. A Different Me "Outro"

A Different Me is the third studio album by R&B singer and songwriter Keyshia Cole. The road to riches wasn't easy for Keyshia yet her hard work and great voice are her successful rewards. Besides the release of a 2008 album, the new season of her BET reality show, touring and personal appearances, Keyshia is gearing up for the production of a movie based on her life. The lead single off the album, "Playa Cardz Right" featuring Tupac, originally appeared on Tupac's Pac's Life, and this version was rearranged by the hugely successful Grammy nominated Cole with producers Ron Fair plus Carvin and Ivan.

1. The News
2. Cool
3. The Day We Met
4. Diamond In The Rough
5. I Did It For Sho
6. Hard To Breathe
7. Soul's On Fire
8. Please Stay
9. The Point Of It All
10. Fallin' In Love
11. Prayin' For You / Superman
12. Her Heart
13. Fine Again
14. She's Gone

2008 release. There is a tradition in classic Black music that goes back to the smooth crooning of Sam Cooke, the earthy gritty sound of Otis Redding, the lyrical beauty of Curtis Mayfield and the unfiltered intensity of Donny Hathaway. It's a combination of church-rooted hallelujah praisin' and tell-it-like-it-is storytellin'. Few contemporary artists are equipped to carry the torch with any sense of authenticity. Anthony Hamilton may be the sole-indeed, soulful-exception. Simply put, Anthony has proved to be the real deal, as audiences discovered during his countless road treks performing night-after-night before packed crowds of -as he puts it-'young thugs, white and black, mothers with babies on their knees, old school G's and kids looking for something they could feel and relate to.'

1. Just Like Me
2. I Don't Need It
3. Number One
4. Digital Girl
5. Blame It
6. She Got Her Own
7. Intuition Interlude
8. I Don't Know
9. Weekend Lover
10. Why
11. Freak'in Me
12. Slow
13. Rainman
14. Overdose
15. Love Brings Change

Explicit version. Grammy nominated, Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx returns with his 2008 album Intuition. As a follow up to his platinum selling, J Records debut album Unpredictable, this album is sure to please with writing and production by The Dream, Timbaland, Sean Garrett, Tricky, Salaam Remi and Marsha Ambrosia. The first single, 'Just Like Me' features rapper T.I.

Plies has earned gold status with his sophomore album, 'Definition Of Real'. The album, which features the #1 single 'Bust It Baby Part 2(Feat. Ne-Yo)' and the current hit 'Please Excuse My Hands(Feat. Jamie Foxx and The Dream)' debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 chart upon its June release, with sales exceeding 200,000. Plies' next album, 'Da Realist', is slated to hit the streets on December 16th, marking the Ft. Meyers, Florida based rap superstar's third full length release in just under 16 months.

1. Me & My Goons
2. F**k U Gon' Do Bout It
3. Gotta Be
4. Want It, Need It
5. Plenty Money
6. Family Straight
7. Make A Movie
8. 2nd Chance
9. Spend the Night
10. Heard of Me
11. All Black
12. Street Light
13. I Chase Paper
14. Pants Hang Low
15. Co-Defendant
16. Put It On Ya

Soulja Boy Tellem's highly anticipated follow-up to Souljboytellem.com (Collipark Music/Interscope). Soulja Boy Tell'em hit the ground running promoting his debut album which led to record setting performances for ringtones (more than 5.3 million downloads), YouTube views (over 300,000,000 views) and an incredible seven-week run at the top of the "Hot 100" chart with the Grammy-nominated single "Crank That (Soulja Boy).Such staggering stats easily made Soulja Boy Tell'em the top new artist of 2008.

1. I'm Bout Tha Stax
2. Bird Walk
3. Turn My Swag On
4. Gucci Bandanna
5. Eazy
6. Kiss Me Thru The Phone
7. Booty Got Swag
8. Rubber Bands
9. Hey You There
10. Yamaha Mama
11. Wit My Yums On
12. Go Head
13. Shoppin' Spree
14. Soulja Boy Tellem
15. Whoop Rico
16. I Pray