A romantic hip hop soul ballad which chronicles a woman's desire to spend more time with her loved one, it was inspired by Evans' marriage to her then-husband The Notorious B.I.G., which had changed radically after the major commercial success of his debut album Ready to Die (1994).

[3] In her 2008 autobiography Keep the Faith, Evans acknowledged that while most material on her debut album were written to describe her feelings for then-husband The Notorious B.I.G., she wrote "Soon as I Get Home" with lines that she wished he would sing to her after he was spending more and more time traveling.

"[5] In his review for Billboard, editor Larry Flick noted that "Evans will have no trouble affirming her status as the next queen of hip-hop/soul with this gloriously romantic slow jam.

The chorus lingers in the mind long after the song has faded, and Evans' vocals demand comparison to the early work of Gladys Knight and Mary Wells.

Producer Chucky Thompson ties all these lovely threads together into a cohesive piece that will win the hearts of top 40, R&B, and even AC radio programmers.