and I believe the name change, slave cheek, attitude then didn't help with industry at all, might have been a little black balled for radio play.

but emancipation could have had hits imo. but he chose to release the bland cover la la la that nobody was feeling and holy river while isnt bad wasn't screaming to be played in a club lol don't get me started on Te Amo Corazon and other bullshit he's used for singles

last song I remember playing on top 40 radio was Gold in 94-95. I did really like Emancipation album quite a bit and thought he was gonna come back full force and was just biding his label woes but yeah, never happened