Indeed, Love and War plays out like it's designed to contend with the likes of Ciara, Rihanna, Trey Songz, and maybe even Keyshia Cole, rather than those who came up around the same time as Braxton.
Second single 'The One,' the umpteenth track to sample Mtume's 'Juicy Fruit,' signaled that Braxton was up to compete with contemporary singers who emerged during the middle and late 2000s. Dramatic, spacious ballad 'Love and War,' released in late 2012, kicked her music career backed into gear and put her in the Top 15 of Billboard's R&B chart. Not too many R&B artists experience a 13-year gap between debuting and releasing a second album, but here's Tamar Braxton, now known to a younger generation due to her presence on reality television series Braxton Family Values and talk show The Real.
