Of all the wrongs dealt to Tevin Campbell through the years, among the worst offenses is that up until 2021, it was impossible to stream his I’m Ready album in full.

The singer-songwriter's career began in 1990 with his debut T.E.V.I.N. via Quincy Jones’ Quest Records, which boasted five singles that hit the top 10 on the R&B chart. Still, his sophomore release, which celebrates its 30th anniversary on October 26th, established the then-child prodigy’s success as no fluke.

Part of the reason why the double platinum album has been unavailable digitally for so long is rooted in portions of I’m Ready being produced by Prince. The two worked together on “Round and Round,” which led to Tevin’s appearance in Graffiti Bridge, a musical drama directed by and starring Prince released in 1990.

The two reconnected to work on four songs for the follow-up, and those songs — “Shhh,”  “Uncle Sam,” “Paris1798430,” and “Halls of Desire” — were not available to stream.

(Another song from I’m Ready not helmed by Prince, the album-closing “Infant Child,” was also not accessible.)

That finally changed two years ago when the album became completely accessible from start to finish, partly due to Prince’s estate clearing the music for digital release.

Speaking with Rolling Stone about the announcement, Campbell says, “It’ll be cool to be able to play the album in its original form.”

It has been cool, but do you know what would be even cooler?

Playing more than one Tevin Campbell song when everyone is outside.

I’m assuming some folks missed this announcement the first time, which is understandable, given we were only starting to creep out without fear of inhaling an airborne virus.

However, it’s been two years, and I need us as a community to unite and do better by Tevin.

Don’t get me wrong.

I love “Can We Talk,” too.

How can you not when he sounds so good singing it?

And, of course, it is the best-performing single from I’m Ready and the biggest single of Tevin’s career.

“‘Can We Talk’ is a song about stalking but it works every time,” Tevin once tweeted in 2020.

With all due respect to one of R&B’s best voices, it works too well.

I love us, but people can run a song into the ground, and I have long been tired of DJs, people holding the aux cord, and 90s R&B playlist creators acting like the song is brand new or that it’s his only song.

Y’all, it’s not his only hit.

In only a few years, Tevin managed to amass nearly a dozen R&B hits — many of which can be heard on I’m Ready.

Plenty of artists have signature songs, but it is usually the only Tevin Campbell song I have heard outside since the 2000s, and I am tired.

And while I can’t speak for Tevin, I never forgot the tweet featuring a video of him that lent credence to my suspicions that he is probably tired of people only playing that song, too. I’m sure, like any artist, he is grateful for the spins and, in recent years, the TikTok challenge that introduced it to a new generation. Can we introduce them and reintroduce to their aunts and uncles the other hits from I’m Ready, though?

Say, Babyface wrote songs besides, you know what, like the title track “I’m Ready” and  “Always In My Heart. There are the aforementioned Prince creations, too. Now, were some of them age-appropriate in hindsight? Uh, probably not, but as others (including Tevin) have mentioned over time, he’s old enough to perform them now that he is older.

Since we’re all older now, can we run the streams up?

How about deep cuts like the Johnny Gill co-written “What Do I Say” or the Burt Bacharach-written “Don’t Say Goodbye Girl?”

Hell, play “Eye to Eye,” the song he made for A Goofy Movie.

The least we can do is honor the years he managed to work with Quincy Jones, Prince, Babyface, and Al B Sure! with a young voice that drew comparisons to Michael Jackson.

Tevin’s singing career was already cut too short due to many factors beyond his control — namely, homophobia and all the speculation and nasty rumors it spawned then and even this century come to mind.

Thankfully, some of that has been corrected as Tevin has enjoyed new opportunities while being honored for his past contributions, like when he accepted the R&B Icon Award at the 2022 Black Music Honors.

Tevin has also expressed interest in recording new music, which I hope comes to pass, but until that comes to fruition, let’s do better with the material he’s given us.

I dislike walking up to DJ booths to request songs because that is annoying. Yet, I offer this plea to every DJ, professional or amateur, playlist curator, promoter, booker, or just some self-professed lover of 90s R&B to help me help Tevin.

If you love Tevin Campbell, play something besides “Can We Talk.”

Michael Arceneaux is the New York Times bestselling author of "I Can’t Date Jesus," "I Don’t Want To Die Poor," and the forthcoming "I Finally Bought Some Jordans."