Mary J. Blige
I Love You (Commentary)
[Interlude]
"I Love You." Well, I heard this song when I was a little kid. The DJs mixed it up, they mixed it in the block parties. It's the Isaac Hayes, um, it’s a Isaac Hayes song. And so to use it in a song was perfect 'cause all the DJs was playing it. It was, it was played — it was mixed inside of all the hip-hop breakbeat moments. And it was something, it was a famous sample that everybody loved. It just stopped — we stopped in our tracks like "UFO." When you heard "UFO," you just stopped when you heard this piano automatically. So that was something I wanted to do. I wantеd to sing over, over "Ike's Mood." I wantеd to sing over "Ike’s Mood." And, Chucky, again, I remember, ha, I remember this studio session. I remember sitting next to Chucky the whole time while he was doing the bassline — boom, boom, boom, boom...boom — wow, it's crazy, I could see it. And um, I remember there was a part, like an oboe or violin or something at the end of the sample and I told Chuck, I said, I want this — I want that to keep playing over and over and over again. And when I heard the record completed, it was playing over and over and over again — duh-na-na-na-na, na-na-na, duh-na-na-na-na. Hahaha. We had fun making that record