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MILF.
Make It Last Forever is the debut album of American R&B recording artist Keith Sweat. Released on November 24, 1987, the album went to #1 on the Top R&B Albums chart for three weeks (and topped the Billboard Year-End R&B chart for 1988), and #5 on the Billboard 200. Make It Last Forever was one of the earliest R&B albums to showcase the up-and-coming New Jack Swing sound, as it was mostly produced by Sweat himself and music producer Teddy Riley.
The album's biggest hit was "I Want Her", a #5 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and the first #1 R&B hit for Sweat. The title track, "Don't Stop Your Love" and "Something Just Ain't Right" were major Top Ten hits on the Billboard R&B charts. On April 6, 1994, Make It Last Forever was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, for shipments of three million copies in the United States.[4] The single "I Want Her" was certified gold by the RIAA on June 13, 1989, for shipments of 500,000 copies in the US.[4]
[edit] Reception
J.D. Considine of Musician stated in a review upon the album's release, "Though Keith Sweat is B-Boy enough to relish the cheap-drum-machine clatter of the classic hip-hop groove, he's also sufficiently soulful to keep that from crowding his vocal style".[3] In his consumer guide for The Village Voice, critic Robert Christgau gave Make It Last Forever a B rating,[2] indicating "an admirable effort that aficionados of the style or artist will probably find quite listenable".[5] Christgau commented that "the beats prove Teddy Riley New York's answer to Jam & Lewis" and stated "For credentials the next big love man proffers beats on the slow ones and lyrics whose seduction strategy is never to offend".[2] In a retrospective review, Allmusic editor Andrew Hamilton viewed it as Sweat's best album and complimented his "pleading, whining tenor", writing that it "adroitly draws you into every song, demanding an emotional commitment".[1]
[edit] Track listing
- "Something Just Ain't Right" (Keith Sweat/Teddy Riley) 5:22
- "Right and A Wrong Way" (Sweat/Riley) 5:17
- "Tell Me It's Me You Want" (Sweat/Riley) 4:44
- "I Want Her" (Sweat/Riley) 5:58
- "Make It Last Forever" (featuring Jacci McGhee) (Sweat/Riley) 4:55
- "In the Rain" (Tony Hester) 5:42
- "How Deep Is Your Love" (Sweat/Riley) 4:47
- "Don't Stop Your Love" (Sweat) 6:12
[edit] Personnel
- Keith Sweat – Main Performer, Producer
- Teddy Riley – Producer
- Jeff Neiblum – Engineer, Vocals (bckgr), Percussion
- Clifford Branch – Keyboards, Vocals (bckgr)
- George Heylinger – Vocals (bckgr)
- Emmanuel Rahiem LeBlanc – Vocals (bckgr)
- Jacci McGhee – Vocals (bckgr), Performer
- Vivian Sessoms – Vocals (bckgr)
[edit] Charts
[edit] singles
| Year |
Single |
Chart |
Position |
| 1987 |
"I Want Her" |
Billboard Hot 100 |
5 |
| Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs |
1 |
| Dance/Club Play Songs |
38 |
| Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Single Sales |
5 |
| 1988 |
"Make It Last Forever" |
Billboard Hot 100 |
7 |
| Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs |
1 |
| "Something Just Ain't Right" |
Billboard Hot 100 |
79 |
| Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs |
3 |
| Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Single Sales |
49 |
| "Don't Stop Your Love" |
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs |
9 |
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