Robbed hit of the week 5/14/18 - Aaron Hall's "Don't Be Afraid"...
from the albums Juice (Original Soundtrack) (1992) & The Truth (Aaron Hall, 1993)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #44
This week's "robbed hit" comes from R&B singer Aaron Hall, who started out as one of the members of the groundbreaking new jack swing trio Guy. Their second album together, The Future, landed them two hits than nearly made the American top-40, "I Wanna Get With U" and "Let's Chill". In 1992, Hall contributed a song to the soundtrack of the Tupac Shakur movie Juice, "Don't Be Afraid". Written by Aaron with Floyd Fisher, and produced by the men behind Public Enemy's sound, the Bomb Squad, the single became his first solo success...
While "Don't Be Afraid" spent two weeks at #1 on Billboard's R&B chart, the single stalled under their pop Top-40 at #44 in April of 1992. The song would eventually appear on Hall's debut solo album The Truth, which did sent the single "I Miss You" into the pop top-20.
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There was an alternate version of "Don't Be Afraid" done as a slow jam bedroom anthem, included on the album...
And here he is promoting the single on TV...
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