I love this song with my whole heart just like everybody who heard it during its heyday. Taking his cues from such pantheon level cash shit jams like “Ready or Not” by After 7 and Keith Sweat’s entire body of work, Joe dropped a jam of jamtastic proportion with “All The Things.” Hell, it even faded into the song, which wasn’t really happening back then, to let you know it was about to be…something. It featured jams like “Good Girls,” “Don’t Wanna Be a Player,” (which also featured on 1997’s Booty Call soundtrack), “The Love Scene,” and the topic of today’s exploration, “All The Things (Your Man Won’t Do.”
His 1997 sophomore album, All That I Am, is a classic and you can argue with your mother about it if you disagree. The ’90s was an era where R&B was still alive and well and Joe Thomas, better known as Joe, was one of those cats who made good, solid R&B music. Which brings us to the latest ’90s jam that has me spending too much time thinking about how much cash shit ’90s R&B singers talked. The world isn’t made better by this practice, nor does this bring me a step closer to lottery-sized millions, but you know what, if you’re bored on a Wednesday it really moves the clock. One of my favorite pastimes is revisiting songs from my youth (and particularly from the ’90s) and thinking about them critically. Retrieved July 10, 2018.Screenshot: Joe ‘If I Was Your Man’ (Jive) Recording Industry Association of America.