Jagged Edge, “Walked Outta Heaven” | Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶

In the 58^th edition of Throwback Vibez (2022), we recollect and reflect on “Walked Outta Heaven” by multiplatinum R&B collective, Jagged Edge.   

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he vibes, the vibes, those Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶! Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 is a column that celebrates awesome songs from the past.  The records that grace Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 are older, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re ancient – no fossils 🦴! All genres of music are welcome – we don’t discriminate ‘round here! In the 58^th edition of Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 (2022), we recollect and reflect on 🎵 “Walked Outta Heaven”, performed by multiplatinum R&B collective, 🎙 Jagged Edge.

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Theme & Lyrics ✍

Once upon a time, 🎙 Jagged Edge experienced their moment in R&B.  The collective has a pair of platinum albums (including the double-platinum 💿 J.E. Heartbreak), and a pair of gold albums. 💿 Hard, released in Fall 2003, debuted at no. 3 on the Billboard 200 and went on to earn that gold plaque. The biggest single from Hard is 🎵 “Walked Outta Heaven”. It’s not surprising that the lushly produced (🎛 Bryan-Michael Cox), dynamic “Walked Outta Heaven” was hit, peaking at no. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100.

So, why did Jagged Edge “walk right out of heaven” exactly? Well, you can bet it involves the universal four-letter word: LOVE.  Like many secular heaven songs, the idea of the afterlife is secondary – not the main priority.  Heaven, in the case of “Walked Outta Heaven,” was this awesome relationship with this woman.  Now that she’s – they’re – gone, the men a scrambling because life is no longer heavenly but hellish 😈!  The verses do a fine job of expressing the lengths Jagged Edge is willing to go to get her back with prayer being option number one in the first verse (“Without my girl, I’ma lose it / I pray that he would just shed his grace on me”). Of course, the best moment of the song is the centerpiece – the tuneful, harmonious chorus:

“It feels like I just walked right out of Heaven

And it feels like I have damn near thrown my life away (Oh)

And I’m scared just like a child that’s lost at seven (I’m so scared)

Don’t know what to do to get back right with you (Yeah, oh, yeah).”

The bridge is also fantastic, where the ability to walk and talk has been stifled by this unfortunate loss of heaven.

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Final Thoughts 💭 

Basically, when you screw up the love thing, the repercussions are hellish! Jagged Edge suffer mega heartbreak, yet their pain is our listening pleasure on 🎵 “Walked Outta Heaven”. The group might’ve had a briefer run than they should have, but they got their hits in with “Walked Outta Heaven” being near/at the top of that list.

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🎙 Jagged Edge • 💿 Hard • 🏷 Sony Music Entertainment • 🗓 2003

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Jagged Edge, “Walked Outta Heaven”: Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 No. 58 (2022) [📷: Brent Faulkner, Gerhard G., JL G via Pixabay,  Karl Hörnfeldt via Unsplash,  The Musical Hype]

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