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"I Need Love" | ||||
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Single by LL Cool J | ||||
from the album Bigger and Deffer | ||||
B-side | "My Rhyme Ain't Done" | |||
Released | July 13, 1987 | |||
Recorded | 1987 | |||
Genre | Hip hop | |||
Length | 5:23 | |||
Label | Def Jam, Columbia, CBS Records | |||
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"I Need Love" on YouTube |
"I Need Love" is the second single from LL Cool J's second album, Bigger and Deffer. The single reached number 1 on the Hot Black Singles and number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 while becoming one of the first rap songs to enjoy mainstream popularity in the UK, rising to number 8 in the UK Singles Chart. The single won a Soul Train Music Award for Best Rap Single in 1988 Soul Train Music Awards. The song was listed as number 13 on About.com's Top 100 Rap Songs. [1]
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The music, both melody and beats, were lifted from an instrumental by Brooklyn songwriter Jayson Dyall entitled "Zoraida's Heartbeat" which was written and recorded in 1984. [17] This song, along with other songs on a cassette tape of several raw recordings by Jayson Dyall, was presented to LL Cool J by an associate, who met Dyall through a music classifieds ad in early 1986 and told him he could get LL to listen to his music. Dyall never received any acknowledgment from LL Cool J or Def Jam Records for originally writing the music for this song.