Jodeci: Forever My Lady (2LP, 35th anniversary, remastered) [UPTOWN]

Why you'll love it

A remastered 35th anniversary edition, expanded to a 2LP set with five bonus tracks, including a live "Forever My Lady" from their 1993 MTV Unplugged. The album that put hip hop swagger into early '90s R&B, with "Stay," "Come & Talk To Me" and the title track.

This edition

• 35th anniversary edition
• Remastered
• 2LP set in a gatefold jacket
• Five bonus tracks

About the album

Forever My Lady arrived on Uptown in May 1991 and sounded like nothing else on R&B radio. DeVante Swing produced most of it, with Al B. Sure! helping steer, and the brief was to bring hip hop into the room: synth-heavy rhythm tracks, a bit of swagger, and four voices (K-Ci, JoJo, DeVante and Dalvin) trading church-trained harmonies over the top.

The ballads are why it lasts. "Stay," "Come & Talk To Me" and the title track are slow-jam canon, and "I'm Still Waiting" and "Cherish" aren't far behind, while "Gotta Love" and "Play Thang" keep the party side honest. The bonus sides add radio mixes, a Swing Mob mix of "I'm Still Waiting," a hip hop version of "Cherish," a "Stay" a cappella and the Unplugged "Forever My Lady." Thirty-five years on, it is still the record people put on when they would like the evening to go a certain way.

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Out June 12, 2026 on Uptown (cat# 5738052), a reissue of the 1991 album.