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Love and Basketball: Music From The Motion Picture is the soundtrack to Gina Prince-Bythewood's 2000 film Love & Basketball. It was released on April 18, 2000 through Overbrook Music/Interscope Records, and mostly consisted of contemporary R&B with some hip hop music.
- Love & Basketball Soundtrack
- I’ll Go
- Complete Beloved
- Lyte as A Rock
- Fool of Me
- Love and Happiness
- Soul Sista
- I Like
- Holding Back The Years
- I Want to Be Your Man
The Love & Basketball soundtrack was released on April 18, 2000, just three days prior to the movie’s opening. There were several recording artists featured on the album such as Raphael Saadiq, Angie Stone, Zapp, and Steve Hurley. In the U.S., it peaked as high as number forty-five on the US Billboard 200 and at number fifteen on its R&B/Hip-Hop Al...
The original version of “I’ll Go” was first performed by Rahsaan Patterson, but it did not appear in any of his official recordings until 2001 when his compilation album, (Soul Togetherness), was released. Donell Jones recorded his R&B cover of this songthat appeared as the first track on the Love & Basketball soundtrack in 2000.
(Complete Beloved) was a song performed by the Black Eyed Peas and Les Nubians that was designed specifically for the Love & Basketball soundtrack. Loaded with electronic influence, this sultry hip-hop song worked its rhythmic magic as a sporty tune that serves as good pump-up music during athletic events and at workouts.
Rapper MC Lyte produced the 1988 single, “Lyte as a Rock,” which is different than what’s on the album. The album version was the one used in the movie, Love & Basketball twelve years later. In 2006, Lil’ Kim performed this very song at the 2006 VH1Hip HopHonors as a tribute to the original rap artist and her outstanding work in the music industry.
The final song from the Love & Basketball soundtrack is (Fool of Me), which was recorded by Meshell Ndegeocello as one of the songs from his 1999 album, (Bitter). Designed as an ambitious life theme song, it focused on what sometimes feels like a beautiful, but the sometimes complicated circle of beauty, faith, love, and loyalty.
From his 1972 album, (I’m Still in Love with You), Al Green produced the song, (Love and Happiness). Regarded as one of the greatest soul songs of all time, the Love & Basketball soundtrack’s inclusion of this track into its roster simply adds to the mix of romance and drama that was also the overall theme of the movie.
The mix of neo-soul and R&B made “Soul Sista” a number eighteen hit on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, as well as a number seventy-one hit on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song was used to support Bilal’s studio album, 1st Born Second, which was released in 2000, the same year the soundtrack to Love & Basketball came out, as well as t...
Originally from his 1988 self-titled album, Guy recorded and released the R&B single, (I Like.) This same song is included in the Love & Basketball soundtrack. At the timing of its original release, it peaked as high as number two on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, as high as number thirty-six on the US Billboard Dance Club Songs char...
Originally from Simply Red, (Holding Back the Years) was a single the group released in 1985 from their debut studio album, (Picture Book). For them, it remained as the most successful single in their career as it was a number one hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 and a number two hit on the UK Singles Chart. It also reached number four on the US Bil...
From his third studio album, (Unlimited), Roger Troutman produced the single, (I Want to Be Your Man), which topped the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and peaked as high as number three on the US Billboard Hot 100. Internationally, it was a top forty hit among the nations of Canada, Germany, Netherlands, and New Zealand. This song is note...
- After the Dance (Vocal) Marvin Gaye. Correct? Young Quincy listens to his parents dance and laugh.
- Sweet Thing. Rufus, Chaka Khan. Young Quincy watches Monica through the window; They kiss for the first time.
- Lyte As a Rock. MC Lyte. Montage of Monica playing basketball.
- I Go to Work. Kool Moe Dee. Correct? Young Quincy plays while Monica watches.
Label: New Line Records. Label number: NLR 9001. Running time: not on file. Shipping date: April 18th, 2000. Product availability. Click Love & Basketball soundtrack CD for more info from The MovieMusic Store. Album Tracklist.
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Love & Basketball is the soundtrack to the film, released April 18, 2000, on Overbrook Entertainment and Interscope Records. [9] Production for the album came from several recording artists, including Raphael Saadiq, Angie Stone, Zapp, and Steve "Silk" Hurley. [10]
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