Gerald Levert - Love & Consequences (1998)

Gerald Levert has sold millions of records as a solo artist, with the group Levert, and most recently as one-third of R&B supergroup LSG. On his new solo album Love & Consequences, Gerald takes a very personal look at passion, love and life, on twelve ballads and R&B grooves that, as always, feature his powerful voice as the main attraction.

Although similar in musical content and creative vocal approach to his previous solo outings, Gerald Levert's Love & Consequences finds the artist in a more mature space lyrically. Absent is the familiar bump-and-grind rhetoric, replaced with more thoughtful love-and-relationship themes. "No Man's Land" is a sobering track that deals with the headier problems of the world, while "Humble Me" is an apologetic cut in which Levert explores the age-old adage that what goes around, comes around--but with a father-son twist. "Thinkin' About It" rings with a contemporary, radio-friendly sheen but digs deeper lyrically than most on-air offerings. Finally, "That's the Way I Feel About You" is a romantic ode featuring guest vocalist Mary J. Blige, offering a youthful interpretation of Bobby Womack's 1971 hit. --J.R. Reynolds