Friday, February 7, 2014

Playback: "If This World Were Mine" (Ruben Studdard & Lalah Hathaway)


I wanted to playback Ruben Studdard and Lalah Hathaway's smooth, silky, and soulful (sss) version, of "If This World Were Mine" to celebrate The Velvet Teddy Bear's newly released album Unconditional Love this past tuesday.

Featuring arguable the best soulful male vocalist currently recording (looking at you D'Angelo for a new project) and one of the most slept on vocalists of our generation Lalah Hathaway (who hopefully will get her just dues at the Grammys for her sublime collaboration with Snarky Puppy on "Something"), their smooth rendition of the Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell classic has been on repeat at my crib since I heard it a few few weeks ago.

There are really aren't enough words in my book to say how wonderful this collaboration is and hopefully it will be getting the full single treatment because radio and R&B as a whole needs this right now... back to just sanging!

With that said, take a few listens below to Ruben and Lalah's sublime duet on the evergreen classic "If This World Were Mine" and if you haven't checked out Ruben's new album Unconditional Love, it's in stores now!





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