What song released in 1992 by A Triber Called Quest was sampled by Mary J Blige?
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Love @ 1st Sight "Love @ 1st Sight" is a song by American recording artist Mary J. Blige, performed along with rapper Method Man. It was written by Blige, Sean Combs, Mario Winans, Stevie Jordan, Clifford Smith, and Mechalie Jamison and produced by Combs, Winans and Jordan for her sixth studio album, "Love & Life" (2003). The song is built around a sample of "Hot Sex" (1992) by American hip-hop trio A Tribe Called Quest. Due to the inclusion of the sample, several other writers are credited as songwriters. Lyrically, it features the protagonist persistently wondering about a romantic attraction for a stranger on the first sight.
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Hot Sex "Hot Sex" is a single by hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest. It was released in 1992 on the soundtrack for the film "Boomerang" and was later featured on European editions of the group's third studio album "Midnight Marauders" one year later in 1993. The track was also featured as a bonus track on the group's fifth album "The Love Movement" in 1998, and on the 1999 compilation album "The Anthology".
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My Life (Mary J. Blige album) My Life is the second studio album by American R&B recording artist Mary J. Blige, released on November 29, 1994, by Uptown Records. Many of the topics on "My Life" deal with clinical depression, Blige's battling with both drugs and alcohol, as well as being in an abusive relationship. Similar to her debut album "What's the 411?", "My Life" features vast production from Sean Combs for his newly founded label, Bad Boy Entertainment, which was at the time backed by Arista Records.
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Vivrant Thing "Vivrant Thing" is the first single released by Q-Tip on his debut solo album "Amplified". The song is also featured in A Tribe Called Quest's 1999 compilation "The Anthology". It was produced by Q-Tip himself, although Jay Dee was also in the credits (they were a production duo). "Vivrant Thing" was the first rap song to reach number 1 on "Billboard" magazine's Hot R&B Singles & Tracks Airplay chart, although it only reached number seven on the main R&B chart due to the lack of a commercially available single.
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Love Is All We Need "Love Is All We Need" is a 1997 song by R&B singer Mary J. Blige. It was released as the first single from Blige's third album, "Share My World", and features a rap verse from Nas.
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The People (Common song) "The People" is a song by American rapper Common, released as the second single of his seventh studio album "Finding Forever". It made its first appearance on Kanye West's "Can't Tell Me Nothing" mixtape. The song features production by West and contains background vocals provided by soul singer Dwele. The original version of the song had Common singing the hook by himself, but this was later replaced with Dwele singing the hook. It contains samples of "We Almost Lost Detroit" by Gil Scott-Heron as well as vocal samples of "Long Red" by Mountain (the latter of which was sampled on Wouldn't Get Far featuring West). This action was part of West's intention to pay tribute to J Dilla through the production style expressed within the album.
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Blood Money (Mobb Deep album) Blood Money is the 7th studio album by Mobb Deep, released on May 2, 2006. It is the group's only album on G-Unit & Interscope. It features guest appearances by G-Unit and Nyce. The album also features artists Mary J. Blige and Nate Dogg. "Blood Money" is the 1st Mobb Deep studio album to not feature Big Noyd.
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How I'm Comin' "How I'm Comin'" is a song by LL Cool J, released as the first single from his fifth album, "14 Shots to the Dome". It was released on February 15, 1993 for Def Jam Recordings and featured production from Marley Marl, QDIII and LL Cool J. The drum loop in the song is sampled from "The Humpty Dance" by Digital Underground.
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The 411 The 411 were an English female R&B group formed in late 2003. The band formed after a couple of the members sang backup vocals on Lemar's version of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together". The band took its name after the 1992 Mary J. Blige album "What's the 411?". During their time together as a group, they released one studio album "Between the Sheets" and three top-forty singles before disbanding in 2005.
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Why (Mary J. Blige song) "Why" is a song performed by American recording artist Mary J. Blige, from her tenth studio album, "My Life II... The Journey Continues (Act 1)" (2011). It was written by Blige along with Dave Young, Eric Hudson, and William Roberts II, with Hudson producing the song and Rick Ross having featured vocals. A soulful R&B song that makes use of hip hop soul and quiet storm influences and a beat-heavy, strings–led production, the song initially impacted on US radios on April 10, 2012 as the album's third single.
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Dave Hall (record producer) Dave Hall (A.K.A. Dave "Jam" Hall) is an American record producer. He is famous for working on Mary J. Blige's debut album "What's the 411?" (including the #1 R&B hit single "You Remind Me"); with Madonna, co-writing and co-producing several tracks from her 1994 album "Bedtime Stories", including the single "Human Nature," for working with R&B harmony group Brownstone, and for co-writing and co-producing two of Mariah Carey's hits, "Dreamlover" and "Fantasy." He also had produced for such acts like Usher, Donell Jones, CeCe Peniston, and Joe early in their music careers.
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The Anthology (A Tribe Called Quest album) The Anthology is A Tribe Called Quest's 1999 greatest hits compilation spanning their entire career. The compilation contains songs from all of their currently existing full-length catalogue, including "People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm", "The Low End Theory", "Midnight Marauders", "Beats, Rhymes and Life" and "The Love Movement", as well as select soundtrack releases. It also contains Q-Tip's "Vivrant Thing", which was featured on the first music compilation for through Violator Records/Def Jam Recordings. The song would also later be featured on Q-Tip's solo effort, 1999's "Amplified". Vivrant Thing is also substituted with "Mr. Incognito" for the Japan release. The album cover features Erykah Badu with fluorescent stripes of green and orange reminiscent of the traditional colors of the Kente tribe of the north Congo.
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Real Love (Mary J. Blige song) "Real Love" is a song recorded by American singer Mary J. Blige for her debut studio album "What's the 411?" (1992). It was written and produced by Cory Rooney and Mark Morales. The song samples Audio Two's 1987 song "Top Billin'", and was issued as the album's second single on August 25, 1992. It became Blige's first top-ten hit, peaking at number seven on the US "Billboard" Hot 100. It also reached the top on both the "Billboard" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Rhythmic charts, and was eventually certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on November 4, 1992.
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Get It Together (Beastie Boys song) "Get It Together" is a song by American hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, released as the second single from their fourth studio album "Ill Communication". The album version of the song features rapper Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest, but not the single version.
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James Mtume James Forman (born March 27, 1946), better known by his stage name James Mtume, is an American Grammy Award-winning R&B musician, songwriter and radio personality. He came to prominence working with Miles Davis between 1971 and 1975. Mtume's group, also called Mtume, is perhaps best known for the 1983 R&B hit song "Juicy Fruit", which has been much sampled. Mtume the band also had a top-five R&B hit with the single "You, Me, and He". He and Mtume band member, fellow musician Reggie Lucas both won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Song for writing and producing fellow R&B artist Stephanie Mills' top-ten hit "Never Knew Love Like This Before", for which she also won a Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.
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Rescue Me (Madonna song) "Rescue Me" is a song by American singer and songwriter Madonna from her first greatest hits compilation "The Immaculate Collection" (1990). It was written by Madonna and Shep Pettibone, who also worked with her on the worldwide chart-topping single "Vogue" (1990) as well as her fifth studio album "Erotica" (1992). Sire Records released "Rescue Me" as the second single from "The Immaculate Collection" on February 12, 1991, and as the third single on April 7 in the United Kingdom. It peaked in the top-five in countries such as Ireland, the UK, Italy, and South Africa, and at number nine on the US "Billboard" Hot 100.
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So Excited "So Excited" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Janet Jackson featuring guest vocals from rapper Khia. It was released in August 2006 on Virgin Records as the second single from Jackson's ninth studio album, "20 Y.O.". The song was written by Jackson, Jermaine Dupri, James Phillips, Johntá Austin, James Harris III, Terry Lewis and Khia Chambers, with Herbie Hancock, Michael Beinhorn and Bill Laswell also receiving songwriting credits for sampling Hancock's 1983 song "Rockit". Production for "So Excited" was handled by Dupri, LRoc, Jam, Lewis and Jackson. "So Excited" is musically a hip hop and dance song which lyrically expresses submission from a woman to her lover.
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Faithful (Common song) "Faithful" is the fifth and final single from rapper Common's sixth album "Be". It is produced by Kanye West, who samples DJ Rogers' "Faithful to the End" for the song's beat. The sample was recreated by percussionist Ken Lewis. The song also features keyboard playing by James Poyser as well as guest vocals by John Legend and neo-soul singer Bilal. The song was not heavily promoted upon release and failed to chart. The song also samples Faith Evans song of the same name on her third album "Faithfully" which was released in 2001.
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Runaway Love (Ludacris song) "Runaway Love" is the third single released from Ludacris' fifth album, "Release Therapy" (2007). The song, which features Mary J. Blige on the vocals, was produced by Polow da Don and reached #2 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 singles chart only behind Justin Timberlake's "What Goes Around... Comes Around". The song was the first single from "Release Therapy" in the United Kingdom and was released as a double A-side with "Girls Gone Wild" included. The song was performed at the 2007 Grammy Awards show by Ludacris, Mary J. Blige and Earth, Wind & Fire. A remix of the song is available by T-Pain featuring Cassie.
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I Love You (Mary J. Blige song) "I Love You" is a 1995 single by American singer-songwriter Mary J. Blige, taken from her second album "My Life". Released only as a radio single, it rose to a peak of #60 on the pop charts. It was occasionally the B-side for the previous dance hit, "You Bring Me Joy". There were plans and negotiations of a possible music video for this single to be shot back-to-back with "You Bring Me Joy", but plans were scrapped as it performed well on its own. "I Love You (Part 2)" was recorded with rapper duo Smif-n-Wessun. The song samples the piano loop of Isaac Hayes's "Ike's Mood" from 1970's album "...To Be Continued", and samples "Hollywood's World" by DJ Hollywood.
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Stand by Your Man (LL Cool J song) "Stand by Your Man" is a song by American rapper LL Cool J, released as the final single from his fifth studio album, "14 Shots to the Dome". It was released on October 4, 1993 for Def Jam Recordings and produced by Marley Marl and LL Cool J. Stand By Your Man was the weakest of the four singles, as it made it only to 67 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks and 24 on the Hot Rap Tracks. On the B-side was Soul Survivor.
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Quo (Quo album) Quo is the self-titled and only album released by hip hop group Quo, released on October 25, 1994, through Michael Jackson and Epic Records' MJJ Music. The album itself did not make it to any of the "Billboard" charts, but two singles did—"Blowin' Up (Don't Stop the Music)" made it to #25 on the Hot Rap Singles and #90 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, while "Quo Funk" made it #2 on the Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles.