Eve is ready to drop a new album, Here I Am, on August 7th. It has quite a diversity of flavors from collaborations with Mary J. Blige, Sean Paul, Robin Thicke, T.I., Timbaland and Swizz Beatz. It also has the Philly lady stretching her vocals and testing some area outside of her usual comfort zone. She lists “All Night Long” as her favorite song on the album, but also the one that was most challenging for her. She sings the whole song, rather than rapping, so it has become something she really has to work at. She told MTV news, “Now I felt like I’d take the gamble because it is the fourth album, and why buy my album if you’re going to hear the same thing you heard three years ago?”

Read more about this song, and her take on the aftermath of Don Imus’ firing, on VH1. She also talks to MTV news about this album on “Eve Breaks Out Singing Voice” on VH1.

What she said to MTV in respect to Imus, and hip hop’s use of profanity, is not a new message in her music. She has long been a proponent for a positive message in music, especially rap. She has been quoted previously as saying, “I hate angry music now. I feel we have a responsibility to the people who watch us. And they think our music is a real message about how to live.”It’s so stupid. These are grown men with wives and children, nice cars and jets and all this money. And then they go on as if they’re still part of the hood.” Read more about her “scathing verbal attack on hypocritical rappers” on Playahata.
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