Songoftheday 6/24/20 - I be struggling and hustling and thugging it forever, come and look deeply in my eyes...
from the album Set It Off (Original Soundtrack) (1996)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: ineligible to chart
Billboard Hot 100 Airplay peak: #39 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Airplay Top-40: 4
Today's song of the day comes from the rap group from Cleveland, Ohio, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, whose first full-length studio album had scored them two pop hits with "1st Of Tha Month" and "Tha Crossroads", the latter which topped Billboard magazine's Hot 100 pop chart for two months in the late spring of 1996 and earned them a Grammy Award for Best Rap Duo/Group Performance. Later that year, the group contributed a song to the soundtrack of the movie Set It Off starring Jada Pinkett and Queen Latifah. It became the second song from the set radio picked up on after the soul supergroup of Brandy, Tamia, Chaka Khan, and Gladys Knight on their top-40 hit "Missing You". With prominent samples of Force MD's "Tender Love" and Herb Alpert's "Making Love In The Rain", the record was their most radio-friendly production, even though a lot of bleeping had to be done...
Since "Days Of Our Livez" wasn't released as a single at the time radio was playing it, the song was unable to place on Billboard's official pop Hot 100 chart. However it got enough radio love to spend a month in the top-40 of the airplay component of the tally in September of 1996. It just missed the R&B Airplay list at #11 as well. Oddly enough, months later in the spring of 1997, the fourth single from the soundtrack, Ray J's "Let It Go", was released with "Days Of Our Lives" on the physical single, but by that time it had no airplay and wasn't listed. Internationally, the single went all the way to #5 in New Zealand, and was a top-40 hit in the UK at #37.
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Here's the group performing the song live in concert...
and lastly, on a TV appearance in 1998...
Up tomorrow: Grunge rockers have some extremity weight.
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