On the Chart, May 2008
Lyfe Jennings
An R&B and soul singer-songwriter from Toledo, Ohio, who plays his own guitar, bass and piano. His third album came out at the end of April 2008. Within weeks it was all over Cove’s hip hop list.
The Cove archive desk · Compiled October 2026
“Practically dominates”
Cove’s round-up of the May 2008 Editor’s Lists, On the Chart, gave him a paragraph of his own: Lyfe Jennings practically dominates the hip hop list with five chart appearances.
It goes on to name one of the five, “You Think You’ve Got It Bad (feat. Wyclef Jean)”. That song was No. 1 on the hip hop list and No. 5 on the R&B list, so it was on two lists at once.
The May lists were not archived, so the other four songs are not recorded. MusicBrainz places “You Think You’ve Got It Bad” on Lyfe Change, released 29 April 2008. By the August edition, which does survive, he no longer appears on any of the eight lists.
At a glance
| Act | Solo artist |
|---|---|
| Origin | Toledo, United States |
| Releases on MusicBrainz | 10 release groups, 2004–2021 |
| Earliest dated release listed | Lyfe 268-192 (2004, album) |
| Label on that release | Columbia, Sony Urban Music |
| In Cove’s archive | On the Chart, May 2008 |
Albums
| First released | Title | Type | Label on first release |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-08-17 | Lyfe 268-192 | Album | Columbia, Sony Urban Music |
| 2006-08-15 | The Phoenix | Album | Sony Urban Music |
| 2008-04-29 | Lyfe Change | Album | Columbia |
| 2010-08-31 | I Still Believe | Album | Asylum Records |
| 2013-10-08 | Lucid | Album | Mass Appeal Entertainment |
| 2015-06-22 | Tree of Lyfe | Album | RED Associated Labels |
| 2019-08-23 | 777 | Album | RBC Records |
| 2021-09-10 | The Six Pack EP, Vol. 1 | EP | RBC Records |
Eight entries over seventeen years. The first three albums are on Columbia and Sony Urban Music, 2004 to 2008. After that the label changes with almost every release: Asylum for I Still Believe (2010), Mass Appeal Entertainment for Lucid (2013), RED Associated Labels for Tree of Lyfe (2015), then RBC Records for 777 (2019) and The Six Pack EP, Vol. 1 (2021).
About the artist
Wikipedia’s article presents him as a writer and producer of his own soul and R&B records who also plays guitar, bass and piano on them. MusicBrainz records his origin as Toledo. Cove filed a soul singer under hip hop, and counted the same song on the R&B list too, which says something about how loosely the magazine’s genre lists were drawn by 2008.
What is documented since
Five more releases after Lyfe Change, the latest a 2021 EP. MusicBrainz shows no release after 2021, and neither source we use gives sales or chart figures that this page could cite.
The same post mentioned Lizz Wright, whose “My Heart” was falling from No. 1, Phil Stacey and El Perro del Mar. Another R&B singer with a 2005 album in Cove’s archive is Tweet.
Lyfe Change, track by track
“You Think You’ve Got It Bad” is track 8. The track title in MusicBrainz does not carry the Wyclef Jean credit that Cove printed with it.
| # | Track | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Change the Game (intro) | 1:33 |
| 2 | Keep on Dreaming | 3:40 |
| 3 | Warriors | 3:09 |
| 4 | Never Never Land | 3:57 |
| 5 | Brand New | 3:10 |
| 6 | It’s Real | 3:09 |
| 7 | Cops Up | 3:32 |
| 8 | You Think You’ve Got It Bad | 4:17 |
| 9 | Wild, Wild, Wild | 3:22 |
| 10 | Midnight Train | 3:17 |
| 11 | Hmmm | 3:40 |
| 12 | Old School | 4:12 |
| 13 | Us (interlude) | 1:16 |
| 14 | Will I Ever | 4:51 |
| 15 | Baby I’m a Star | 4:19 |
Discography data: MusicBrainz (CC0), checked 26 October 2026. Dates are first-release dates as MusicBrainz records them; a release it does not list is not shown here. Background not held by MusicBrainz was confirmed against Wikipedia, checked 26 October 2026.
Also in Cove’s archive: Lizz Wright · El Perro del Mar · all the new artists in Cove’s archive · the archive home page