Songoftheday 7/3/21 - Look at you shorty you really got it goin' on, I like the way you move it girl when the deejay plays this song...

 

 

"Come And Get With Me" - Keith Sweat featuring Snoop Dogg

from the album Still In The Game (1998)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #12 (two weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 6

 

Today's song of the day comes from R&B singer and to some the king of new jack swing, Keith Sweat, whose self-titled fifth album had scored a pair of huge pop and soul hits with "Twisted" and "Nobody" in 1996.  The following year, Sweat joined up with Gerald Levert and Johnny Gill for the "supergroup" LSG, and returned to the pop top ten with "My Body". In 1998, Sweat returned with his sixth solo set Still In The Game. The lead single paired Keith with rapper Snoop Dogg, who had his own comeback that year with his top-20 pop hit "Still A G Thang". The result, "Come And Get With Me", was an R. Kelly-style come-on track produced by Sweat, who wrote it with Lee McCallum with Snoop's verses by the rapper himself.  The result is more groove than substance, as Sweat delivers the usual sexual promises while Snoop is uncharacteristically seeming to rush to catch the beat, but the production is darker and fuller than Kelly's lothario odes...

"Come And Get With Me" put Sweat back into the pop top 20 in October of 1998. The song also climbed to #6 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart, so far his most recent top ten urban radio hit. Internationally the single peaked at #16 in New Zealand, and was a minor British hit at #58. The Still In The Game album, released in September of that year, reached the top ten on the R&B Albums (#2) and the main Billboard 200 all-genre list in America, going on to sell over a million copies. Keith will return to the series.

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The retail single featured a remix that swapped out Snoop Dogg for rapper Noreaga that sampled Sly Fox's "Let's Go All The Way" that strayed more to Sweat's new jack swing roots...

 Up tomorrow: A numerical group asks for romance.