Stepping out of her father's shadow
and onto Billboard's R&B charts,
Lalah Hathaway is back with a sultry vengeance on 3rd solo effort,
Self-Portrait. The album takes us through tales of heartbreak, and
love rehab, filling our speakers with Lalah's smooth-as-butta voice.
At first listen one can be jaded by what may seem like the mediocre neo-soul
album, but after a few loops, and an actual careful listen Self-Portrait
testifies to not only Lalah's talent, but her ability to
hold her own as a solo artist. Songs like "What Goes Around," and "Tragic
Inevitability" speak to anyone who's ever loved and lost, and "Little Girl"
speaks vaguely on her upbringing, referencing a father who "ran too fast
sometimes" and a mother "who did it all alone."
Destined for heavy VH1 Soul rotation Lalah Hathaway's Self-Portrait is a
definite fix for anyone's blues craving. [Review by Nosa Garrick]