These are the 50 greatest deep cuts of 1998.
The title track to Brandy’s star-cementing third album, “Never Say Never” was ultimately released as a single in German-speaking Europe in 2000, but never got a push in the U.S. Must’ve just been a question of volume — had already spun off five fairly successful singles stateside, though it’s hard to imagine that this wouldn’t have been bigger than at least one or two of ’em — but the Rodney Jerkins-produced jam remains one of the R&B icon’s finest.
As proven too many times, the darkest parts of the music industry are often directed towards women, where they are instructed to choose between their own happiness and conventional wisdom about success. Hill brought that conversation to the forefront with “To Zion,” and the topic still continues 20 years later with Cardi B — the only female rapper since Ms. Hill to have an unassisted No.
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