Jaheim Hoagland is a young American R&B singer who already made a big impression in 2001 with the debut album Ghetto Love. Both sides of his personality are nicely incorporated into that title. On the one hand he sings about hard street life, with explicit lyrics in which he does not mince words. On the other hand, he never lapses into screaming but puts warmth and feeling in his singing. He
… knows how to find a nice balance between the soul of Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder and the hip-hop of today. He does it again on the successor Still Ghetto, for example in the duet he sings with the pioneer of the so successful hip-hop soul variant: Mary J. Blige. USA Today magazine rated this album as one of the ten best albums of the year 2002. (MS)more
