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"Love U 4 Life" - Jodeci
from the album The Show, The Afterparty, The Hotel (1995)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #31 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 8

Today's song of the day comes from the new jack swing-styled vocal group Jodeci. Coming up to 1996, their third album The Show, The Afterparty, The Hotel had spun off a top-20 pop hit with the lascivious track "Freek'n You" in the summer of 1995. The second single from the record would be the straightforward ballad "Love U 4 Life". Written and produced by bandmate Donald Degrate (as "Devante Swing"), the song was a seductive booty jam for such an innocently-titled song, and foretelling to some of K-Ci and JoJo's material after they left...


"Love U 4 Life" became the group's sixth top-40 pop hit in America in January of 1996. The song also climbed to #8 on Billboard's R&B chart. Internationally, the single made it to #23 in the UK.

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Here's the band live on Showtime At The Apollo to perform the song...


and on Soul Train...


Up tomorrow: Atlanta rappers rehab rooms?

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