★★★★★
When he blew out the candles on his birthday cake last July, Keith Sweat did more than just turn 50: he accomplished nearly a quarter century in the entertainment industry and remains one of the most successful artists from the New Jack Era, thanks to his seven #1 singles, twelve top ten R&B songs and 25 million albums sold...
- www.soultracks.com
2011-11-10
★★★★★
For Keith Sweat, the release of his 1987 debut did more than put the New York native's artistic stamp on R&B's burgeoning New Jack era; unbeknownst to us, it signaled his intent to both create hit songs and to create a lasting impact in the music industry...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
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- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
For credentials the next big love man proffers beats on the slow ones and lyrics whose seduction strategy is never to offend. The lyrics don't define either, which is no surprise, just the usual disappointment; the beats prove Teddy Riley New York's answer to Jam & Lewis. So the fast ones are fine. They're also outnumbered.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
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- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
As he claimed in the title of his last album, Keith Sweat is "still in the game." On Didn't See Me Coming, his seventh solo effort in 12 years, the former new-jack maestro grooves as compellingly and aches as convincingly as ever. And talk about vocal presence: Even with cameos from scene-stealers like Busta Rhymes, T-Boz, and Rah Digga, Coming clearly remains a Keith Sweat joint.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Keith Sweat proves that new jackswing hasn't lost its potency with these whiplash R&B; grooves andslinky tunes about satisfying love in Get Up On It. If Sweat in his love-man modeoccasionally verges on a Barry White parody ("C'mon, baby, let'schange positions"), most of the time he's a serenely clever croonersliding adroitly across a series of undulating rhythms.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Mustachioed, heavy-lidded Keith Sweat is a smooth-talking '90slove man with something for almost everyone. Females swoon over hisvelvety strong-arm tactics; males look to him for the freshest dancebeat around (and, probably, some pointers). Keep It Comin' demonstrates Sweat's prowess in the studio and elsewhere: The firsthalf, conveniently tagged "Dance Floor," sidles up to you and winks;the second, "Bedroom," dims the lights and locks the doors...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Keith Sweat sings R&B; love songs with burning, even scorchingintensity. But he's like a child with imaginary playmates. On his newalbum -- the long-delayed follow-up to his 1987 double-platinum debut,"Make It Last Forever" -- the women he sings about don't have muchreality. They don't have names or personalities. All we know is thatthey either love him or do him wrong, and that -- with his voice, atleast -- he swarms all over them...
- ew.com
2009-06-12