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"How Deep Is Your Love" - Dru Hill featuring Redman

from the albums Rush Hour (Original Soundtrack) and Enter The Dru (both 1998)

Billboard Hot 100 peak #3 (three weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 17

 

Today's song of the day comes from the R&B vocal group Dru Hill, who had scored their fourth top-40 pop hit in the beginning of 1998 with their Soul Food soundtrack contribution "We're Not Making Love No More".  That spring, member Sisqó guested on the debut single from Mýa, "It's All About Me", which reached the pop and R&B top ten. In September, the group returned with another movie song, this time for the Jackie Chan/Chris Tucker buddy movie Rush Hour. "How Deep Is Your Love", written by members Sisqó and Nokio with producer Warryn Campbell, Rick Cousin, and Reggie Noble, the latter being the rapper Redman, who is featured on the track's R&B remix. The song owes as much to the boy-band hits of the Backstreet Boys as it is to Timbaland's skittish rhythms, as the Dru do a bit of romantic braggadocio as they confront a cheating lover. The public responded favorably, giving the foursome the highest charting single as a lead artist of their career...

 "How Deep Is Your Love" rose all the way to the top three on the American pop chart in October of 1998. The song topped Billboard magazine's R&B chart for three weeks, their third and final #1 there. Internationally, the single reached the top ten in Sweden (#4), the Netherlands (#6), Germany (#8), the UK (#9), and Switzerland (#10). It also made the top-40 in Australia (#13), Belgium (#19W/#20F), New Zealand (#26), Ireland (#27), Austria (#29), and France (#39). The Rush Hour soundtrack, released in September, climbed to #5 on the Billboard 200 sales tally, going on to move over a million units. The song also led the group's second album Enter The Dru, released a month later, which spent a week at #2 (their best), spending just over a year on the chart, and selling over two million copies. They will be back soon.

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Here's the remix featuring Redman...

Next up, appearing on Motown Live in 1998...

and lastly, live in concert in 1999...

Up tomorrow: The Fresh Price couples up.