Album · Queen Latifah
Black Reign by Queen Latifah
Black Reign is an album by Queen Latifah, released in 1993. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 4 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “U.N.I.T.Y.”, on 4 lists with a best position of #21.
Black Reign, Queen Latifah's third album, arrived on Motown in 1993, and it's the record where the rapper born Dana Owens turned respect into sales. It went gold, an RIAA first for any solo female rapper, and it climbed higher than anything she had released before, reaching number 60 on the Billboard 200.
The engine was "U.N.I.T.Y.", a hard-talking answer to violence against women and to the way Black women's sexuality kept getting reduced to an object, and it cracked the top 40 of the Hot 100 and won a Grammy. Coming off Nature of a Sista', she sounds like someone who knows exactly how much room she takes up. The same year she started playing Khadijah James on Living Single, so the crown was getting heavier on every front.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Black Reign on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | U.N.I.T.Y. | 4 | #21 | – | 2021–2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.