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"Love Me" - 112 featuring Mase

from the album Room 112 (1998)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #17 (two weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 13

 

Today's song of the day comes from the R&B vocal group 112, whose eponymous debut album had scored a trio of top-40 pop hit with "Only You", "Come See Me", and "Cupid".  Later in 1997 the foursome were featured on two more big pop hits, Allure's top ten cover of Lisa Lisa's "All Cried Out", and the #1 smash "I'll Be Missing You" with Puff Daddy. The following year, Daron Jones, Michael Keith, Marvin Scandrick, and Quinnes Parker returned with their sophomore effort Room 112. The lead single from the project was "Love Me", written by the group with guest rapper Mase, and produced by Leslie Braithwaite. The record samples Luther Vandross' hidden album nugget "Don't You Know That" from 1981 (the same song that Heavy D sampled for his hit "Got Me Waiting"). The men sing about a relationship that's gone south, pleading with their woman to stick around, which makes Mase's rap about luxury and dissing Jay-Z all the more disjointed. It was apparent that he was brought on as a ringer more than to enhance the song, but they already had clout as it was...

"Love Me" landed 112 their fourth consecutive top-40 pop hit in November of 1998. The song also climbed to #8 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart. Internationally, the single was their first top-40 success in New Zealand at #33. The Room 112 album, released in October of that year, climbed to #20 on the Billboard 200 sales tally in America, and #6 on the R&B Albums list, going on to move over two million copies. They will return soon.

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And here's the group performing "Love Me" live on the kids sketch show All That without Mase, an improvement...

Up tomorrow: Latin soul group aren't picky about locations.