Robbed hit of the week 11/28/22 - Jaheim's "Just In Case"...

 

 

"Just In Case" - Jaheim

from the album Ghetto Love (2001)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #52

 

This week's "robbed hit" comes from R&B singer Jaheim, who had landed a top-40 crossover hit on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart in the spring of 2001 with his debut single "Could It Be". His follow-up was the song "Just In Case". Written by producer Keir (DJ Kaygee) Gist of Naughty By Nature, singer Robert Huggar of the vocal group Next, and Ed Berkeley, the song has Jaheim singing to his wife as he's about to leave (and possibly do something nefarious), saying that because he may not come back, they should bang one more time before he goes. Well, that's basically it, besides the bragging on how "good" he's treated her. His Teddy Pendergrass-like voice is there, though not put to as good use as with the previous single, while the groove sounds like a Next outtake. The video goes for that Ghost pastiche with a reveal at the end...

While "Just In Case" climbed to #15 on Billboard magazine's R&B Singles chart, spending 32 weeks on the list, the song stopped right below the halfway mark on the Hot 100 crossover chart in August of 2001. Internationally, the single was his second and final top-40 hit in the United Kingdom at #34.

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Here's Jaheim performing the song at a televised live concert in 2002...