Love & Basketball [Soundtrack]

1	I'll Go / Donell Jones 4:01
2	It Takes Two / Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock 5:01
3	Dance Tonight / Lucy Pearl 3:50
4	Complete Beloved / Les Nubians 4:19
5	I Like / Guy 4:48
6	Lyte As A Rock / MC Lyte 3:32
7	Holding Back the Years / Angie Stone 6:37
8	Love and Happiness / Al Green 5:01
9	Soul Sista / Bilal 4:20
10	Sweet Thing / Rufus & Chaka Khan 3:16
11	I Want to Be Your Man / Roger 4:09
12	Fool Of Me / MeShell NdegeOcello 3:30

Barnes & Noble

Thanks to the stratosphere-level alley-oops and street aesthetic popularized by the cornrows, baggy shorts, and B-boy stance of Allen Iverson, the ballet of hoopdom is best scored by today's R&B and hip-hop artists. So it's only appropriate that the soundtrack to the Spike Lee-produced film "Love and Basketball" includes old and new jams that fit the tale's urban landscape. Loverman Donell Jones bounds through the Rahsaan Patterson-penned "I''ll Go." The super-group Lucy Pearl, which consists of Tony Toni Toné's Raphael Saadiq, En Vogue's Dawn Robinson, and Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest, makes a splash with the buoyant "Dance Tonight." Angie Stone puts a gospel spin on her remake of Simply Red's "Holding Back the Years," and newcomer Bilal mines the falsetto highs of Prince and D'Angelo on "Soul Sista." These new gems share time with hip classics -- Rufus featuring Chaka Khan's "Sweet Thing," Al Green's "Love and Happiness," Rob Base's "It Takes Two," and Guy's "I Like" -- that lend a nostalgic yet progressive appeal to the album. Excuse the rim-rocking analogy, but LOVE AND BASKETBALL scores in more ways than one. Like Shaq lighting up a triple-double at the Forum -- it's fantastic! Brett Johnson

All Music Guide

A touching and fascinating film, Love and Basketball also has a solid soundtrack. Songs like MeShell Ndege'ocello's "Fool of Me" help punctuate this story of childhood friends who love each other almost as much as they love the game of basketball. Other highlights of the soundtrack include songs from MC Lyte, Al Green, and Rufus. ~ Stacia Proefrock, All Music Guide