R U Tuff Enuff

{{Infobox album

| name = R U Tuff Enuff

| type = studio

| artist = Rebbie Jackson

| cover = Rutuffenuff.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|1988|2|1

}}

| recorded = 1987–1988

| venue =

| studio = The Lab Recording Studios
{{small|(West Orange, New Jersey)}}

| genre = {{hlist|R&B|Pop}}

| length = 37:49

| label = {{hlist|Columbia{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/rebbie-jackson-mn0000409027/biography|title=Rebbie Jackson | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}}}

| producer = {{hlist|David "Pic" Conley{{Cite web|url=https://people.com/archive/picks-and-pans-review-r-u-tuff-enuff-vol-29-no-8/|title=Picks and Pans Review: R U Tuff Enuff|website=PEOPLE.com}}|David Townsend}}

| prev_title = Reaction

| prev_year = 1986

| next_title = The Rebbie Jackson Collection

| next_year = 1996

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Reaction

| type = studio

| single1 = Plaything

| single1date = {{Start date|1988|6|16}}

| single2 = R U Tuff Enuff

| single2date = {{Start date|1988|8|25}}

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{rating|1.5|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r73643|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]

}}

R U Tuff Enuff is the third album by American R&B singer Rebbie Jackson.{{Cite web|url=https://lasvegassun.com/news/2001/jul/27/columnist-jerry-fink-lost-jackson-sister-sails-at-/|title=Columnist Jerry Fink: 'Lost' Jackson sister sails at Windjammer - Las Vegas Sun Newspaper|date=July 27, 2001|website=lasvegassun.com}} This album was a different approach for Jackson, as it had a harder-edged street R&B sound that was very popular at the time—which was also exhibited on the La Toya album by Jackson's sister, La Toya Jackson.

Release

The single "Plaything" peaked at number eight on the Billboard R&B charts, Jackson's highest-charting single since 1984's "Centipede." The title track was also released as a single, but it was not as commercially successful. Melle Mel guested on "R U Tuff Enuff."{{Cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/971415/rebbie-jackson-and-latoya-jackson/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124153952/http://www.mtv.com/news/971415/rebbie-jackson-and-latoya-jackson/|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 24, 2020|title=Rebbie Jackson And LaToya Jackson|website=MTV News}}

After Centipede and You Send the Rain Away it was the third single of hers that had an accompanying music video (overall she has four, the video for Yours Faithfully was released ten years after Plaything).{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}

Critical reception

People wrote that the "album is such a blank-sounding snore that—if dopey spelling is going to be insisted on—it might have been called Noise R Us."

Track listing

"Perfect Combination" (Everett Collins, David "Pic" Conley, David Townshend, Robbie Danzie) – 5:16
"Read Between the Lines" (Jack Ponti, David Conley, Vic Pepe, David Townshend) – 4:50
"This Love is Forever" (Everett Collins, Rebbie Jackson, David Conley, David Townshend) – 4:40
"R U Tuff Enuff" (Arthur McCallister, Rebbie Jackson, David Conley) – 4:10
"Plaything" (Joshua Thompson, Romeo Williams, Gene Lennon) – 4:56
"Friendship Song" (Joshua Thompson, David Conley, Gene Lennon) – 4:32
"Sweetest Dreams" (Joshua Thompson, Gene Lennon, Romeo Williams) – 4:08
"Distant Conversation" (Everett Collins, Derrick Culler, David Conley) – 5:17

Charts

class="wikitable"

!align="center"|Chart (1988)

!align="center"|Peak
position

align="left"|U.S. R&B Chart

|align="center"|58{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/rebbie-jackson/chart-history/blp/|title=Rebbie Jackson|magazine=Billboard}}

References

Category:1988 albums

Category:Rebbie Jackson albums

Category:Columbia Records albums

Category:CBS Records albums