I Need Love

This article is about the LL Cool J song. For other songs with the same title, see I Need Love (disambiguation).
"I Need Love"
Single by LL Cool J
from the album Bigger and Deffer
Released July, 1987 (entered Billboard's Hot 100 the week ending August 1)
Format 12", 7"
Recorded 1987
Genre Hip hop, R&B
Length 5:23
Label Def Jam, Columbia, CBS Records
Writer(s) James Todd Smith
Producer(s) LL Cool J, L.A. Posse
LL Cool J singles chronology
"I'm Bad"
(1987)
"I Need Love"
(1987)
"Go Cut Creator Go"
(1987)

"I Need Love" is the second single from LL Cool J's second album, Bigger and Deffer. It reached #1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 while becoming one of the first rap songs to enjoy mainstream popularity in the UK, reaching #8 in the UK Singles Chart. The single won a Soul Train Music Award for Best Rap – Single in 1987. The song ranked #13 on About.com's Top 100 Rap Songs.[1] Number 60 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop. The drums was played with a Roland TR-808 and the keyboard tone was played with a Yamaha DX7 using the Fulltines patch.

Music video

The story of the music video is very much inspired by the song. At the beginning of LL Cool J sitting with some women on a couch, then cheer him on too many fans go out and then he performs a transition in a living room that song. Then goes outside a saloon, before he sits down. In a fadeout scene sits a girl crying on a bed behind LL Cool J, then he goes out there and cheer him again on the way to the limo, fans. Later, he expects a reporter at an interview. After the girl arguing with her father because of poor grades in the testimony and sheer anger of the father of the daughter's poster of LL Cool J pulls away from the wall, whereupon the daughter is crying. Rose again from the sedan, LL Cool J fans and paparazzi followed, after which it rises again with the girls in the limo. During the trip he and the girl get into a conversation, which embrace both themselves and find themselves in a bathtub again. LL Cool J raps at the end of the song to end.[2]

Track listing

A-side
  1. "I Need Love" – 5:23
B-side
  1. "I Need Love" (edit) – 4:15
  2. "My Rhyme Ain't Done" – 3:45

Charts

Chart (1987) Peak
position
Austrian Singles Chart 13
Dutch Top 40 3
German Singles Chart 6
Swiss Singles Chart[3] 6
UK Singles Chart 8
US Billboard Hot 100 14
US Billboard Hot Black Singles 1
Preceded by
"I Just Can't Stop Loving You" by Michael Jackson with Siedah Garrett
Billboard Hot Black Singles number-one single
September 26, 1987
Succeeded by
"Lost in Emotion" by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam

Covers and samples

The music, both melody and beats was lifted from an instrumental by Brooklyn songwriter Jayson Dyall entitled "Zoraida's Heartbeat" which was written and recorded in 1984. This song, along with other songs on a cassette tape of several raw recordings by Jayson Dyall was presented to LL Cool J by one of Cool J's associates, who met Jayson through a music classifieds ad in early 1986 and told him he can get LL to listen to his music. Jayson Dyall never received any acknowledgment from LL Cool J or Def-Jam Records for originally writing the music for this song.

References

Www.ErykLeone.com

  1. Henry Adaso. "100 Greatest Rap Songs". About.com Entertainment.
  2. -Jestino2oo7-. "Sinti LL Cool J-I Need Love". MyVideo.
  3. hitparade.ch
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