Robbed Hit of the Week 11/2/20 - Billy Lawrence's "Come On"...

 

 

"Come On" - Billy Lawrence featuring MC Lyte

from the album Set It Off (Original Soundtrack) (1996) and Paradise (1997)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #44

 

This week's "robbed hit" comes from soul singer Billy Lawrence, who sang as a backup before releasing her debut album One Might Say in 1994. That set's lead single, "Happiness", was a minor hit on the pop (#87) and R&B charts (#61) in Billboard magazine. Three years later, a song she contributed to the soundtrack to the female buddies-in-crime movie Set It Off, "Come On", was released as a single. Featuring rapper MC Lyte, the track fit in with the TLC-style sound of the mid-to-late-1990s...

 

While "Come On" rose all the way to #19 on Billboard's R&B chart, the song stalled right under the pop Top-40 in June of 1997. Internationally, the single reached #28 in New Zealand. Billy's second album, Paradise, was released that same month, and reached #57 on Billboard's R&B albums chart. A second single from the cassette version of the album, "Up & Down", peaked at #47 at R&B and snuck on to the pop Hot 100 at #92, and was a top-40 hit in New Zealand at #37.  But her biggest success would come that year with her featured spot on rapper Rampage's top-40 single "Takin' It To The Streets". Later in 2002, she sung on rap duo Smilez & Southstar's Crash The Party album, and while it scored a top-40 pop hit with "Tell Me", Lawrence wasn't officially credited on the single. After this, she went back to being a primarily backup singer.