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Breeze MrDo2Much Joins New Generation Chart At #41

October 1, 2025:

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Like J-Wonn with "I Got This Record," Breeze MrDo2Much is enshrined in the New Generation Southern Soul chart on the basis of one single, indelible song: "Love Me For Real". Let me explain.

To an extent, every performer honored on Daddy B. Nice's chart boasts a number-one single that defines and glamorizes them: for instance, Sir Charles Jones with "It's Friday" or Big Pokey Bear with "My Sidepiece". But like the vast majority of southern soul acts, these artists also boast material that could be signified equally---or almost equally---distinguished: in Sir Charles' case, for example, "Is Anybody Lonely?," in Pokey's case "They Call Me Pokey".

Think of J-Wonn for a moment. Pull up the video. The scene is a recording studio. Chris Mabry (Big Yayo) and another producer are fretting over Jawonn Smith. He's late. They're not sure he's going to keep the appointment. Just then J-Wonn comes in. "I got this record I gotta get off my chest, man." They queue it up. And to this day (a dozen years later) the first bars still raise goosebumps on the back of my neck. The song is out of this world, a lightning strike from the heavens. It has melody. It has tempo. It has heart. It is unique. J-Wonn couldn't express and define himself better if he worked at it for another dozen years, which coincidentally he has.

That is the kind of song "Love Me For Real" is for BreezeMrDo2Much. It's a one-of-a-kind shot from the creative depths, brought to light-of-day still wriggling with a shocking amount of love, wisdom and empathy. Like J-Wonn with "I Got This Record," I predict Breeze will never be on the receiving end of a single that comes even close to matching it, but that is not the point. The point is that "Love Me For Real," like "I Got This Record," is on a Mount Everest scale of magnitude. If it were the only record he ever recorded, it would assure Breeze's place in the New Generation pantheon.

Praise has to go to everyone who contributed to "Love Is For Real". The songwriter is Harvey Brown, who also sings background vocals. Also sharing in compositional credits is Di'etrick Flowers, primarily (my guess) as the lyricist. His lyrics lift this delicate but enduring composition to its maximum potential. The production and engineering is by Flowe Beats, whose credits include Maia B's "Stand On Business" and Marcellus The Singer's "The Letter" in addition to work for The Jay Morris Group, Young Guy and others.

Did the composer Harvey Brown flirt with recording what was obviously a potential game-changing record himself? If so, he put those ambitions aside, a decision requiring humility that will pay off in a largesse of compositional royalty revenue based on what has become a multi-million-streaming single, something that would never have happened if he had succumbed to personal vanity. And that is because Breeze MrDo2Much is a monstrous talent who's only been waiting for a song such as this to make his name as a southern soul singer. All these actors---all these components---had to mesh perfectly for "Love Me For Real" to become the success it is. And in one fell swoop Breeze has become a southern soul concert headliner, a man with a brand---in a word, famous.

But do you want to know the most remarkable aspect of the "Love Me For Real" saga? The tune never became a #1 single. At least not here at Daddy B. Nice's SouthernSoulRnB. Why? It came out four months ago. Take a minute to reflect on what took place on the southern soul charts in the spring and summer of 2025. That's right. The same coming-into-fame, taking-over-southern-soul, time period that witnessed the musical palace coup of three new ascendants to southern soul royalty: 803Fresh ("Boots On The Ground"), Mike Clark Jr. ("Keep On Steppin'") and Tonio Armani ("Cowgirl Trailride" and "Help Me Find My Drawls").

"Love Me For Real" was incredibly good, but to some extent it was doomed to be lost in the unprecedented buzz and noise made by these generational artists. Mike Clark Jr. was signed by Atlantic. Tonio Armani was signed by Death Row Records. 803Fresh's "Boots On The Ground" became a national chart-topper on "Billboard". These were firsts. Southern soul's profile exploded world-wide beyond anything seen in the contemporary era. Had not all that been happening, Breeze's "Love Me For Real" might well have been a #1 single two or three months in a row.

So herewith we give obeisance to Breeze MrDo2Much and "Love Me For Real," a shoo-in for "Best Ballad of 2025". May Breeze and his collaborators have long, productive and illustrious careers.

Buy Breeze MrDo2Much's "Love Me For Real" at Apple.

Listen to Breeze MrDo2Much singing "Love Me For Real" on YouTube.

Listen to Breeze MrDo2Much singing "Love Me For Real" in his new "wedding video" on YouTube.

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