Jagged Edge Talks New ‘Love Come Down’ Single & Origin of Group Name By Gail Mitchell / So So Def presents Jagged Edge “Love Come Down” Going for Adds @ Urban Main and Adult Now!

After a three-year recording break, Jagged Edge trumpeted its return in fall 2014 with JE Heartbreak II. The Atlanta group’s eighth studio album debuted at No. 1 on both the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and R&B Albums charts. It also spun off JE’s 11th Adult R&B hit, “Hope.” Now members Brandon and Brian Casey, Kyle Norman and Richard Wingo are back with second single “Love Come Down.”
The mid-tempo romp, which samples the 1988 Al B. Sure track “Naturally Mine,” pulsates with the romantic biddings and silky harmonies that are the DNA behind such JE hits as “Let’s Get Married,” “Promise” and “Walked Out of Heaven.” On “Love Come Down,” the foursome leave no doubt as to what’s in store as they tantalizingly promise: “I’m gonna do all I can … to make your love come down.” The single was written by the Caseys and produced by Bryan-Michael Cox, the same team behind “Hope.”
“We write in a conversational way lyrically and try to sing in the way we would speak to a woman,” says Brandon of his and twin Brian’s songwriting technique. “That’s probably the biggest secret ingredient: not being afraid to be naked emotionally. ‘Yeah, I love the hell out of this woman’ or ‘Yeah, I hurt like hell.’”
JE Heartbreak II, the sequel to Jagged Edge’s 2000 double-platinum album J.E. Heartbreak, also features collaborations with Jermaine Dupri. The 13-song set is a joint venture between the Caseys’ Hard Case Records and Dupri’s So So Def (the group’s first label), distributed by Primary Wave BMG Artists Services. Plans for Jagged Edge’s national U.S. tour this year will be announced soon.
Fun fact: Jagged Edge, performing since 1996, borrowed its name from a movie title. “At the time we had a name that nobody liked, including us,” recalls Brandon. “Then another male group came out of Atlanta calling themselves A Few Good Men. That started me looking at movie titles. Jagged Edge [a 1985 film starring Glenn Close and Jeff Bridges] had no significant meaning at the time. I just loved the sound of the name. And we adapted it to mean rough around the edges … that was kind of our story.”