Keyshia Cole "The Way It Is"

Posted on 06.21.2005

Keyshia Cole
Album: The Way It Is
Release date: June 21, 2005
Label: A&M

Review:
KEYSHIA COLE is the real deal. Like many young people raised in tough neighborhoods, the 21-year-old songstress endured a tumultuous childhood in Oakland, California, and has fought all her life to keep her dream of a music career alive. Now she’s realizing that dream on her own terms with her first album for the A&M label, The Way It Is.

It’s been a long road for Keyshia, but it’s her powerful voice – a bell-like instrument whose soaring clarity is topped off with a tantalizing touch of soulful grit – that’s carried her through, not to mention the diminutive singer’s personal combination of sugar, spice, sass and sex appeal, along with a solid-steel spine. With production by Kanye West, Krucial Keys, Ron Fair and Chink Santana, Keyshia’s dreams have been realized.

Tracklisting :
1. (I Just Want It) To Be Over
2. I Changed My Mind
3. Love, I Thought You Had My Back
4. I Should Have Cheated
5. Guess What?
6. Love
7. You’ve Changed
8. We Could Be
9. Situations
10. Down and Dirty
11. Superstar
12. Never