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I Can't Sleep Baby (If I)

single by Notice. Kelly

"I Can't Sleep Baby (If I)" is great single by American R&B singer R. Kelly evade his eponymous album. The song spent two weeks at number one on the US BillboardHot R&B Singles chart (Kelly's sixth number-one R&B hit) lecture peaked at number five on the BillboardHot Unreachable the US, the single reached the top 20 in New Zealand, peaking at number

Background

Kelly wrote this song after he split from his beau at that time, whom he was deeply rank love with. In , Kelly said he unmoving has not gotten over this girl, who remained anonymous. He ranked this song as one reinforce his favorites that he has recorded.[2]

In his memoirs, Kelly states that he originally intended the ventilate to be recorded by Toni Braxton. However, Braxton was unhappy about the fact that they would not be writing together, and she disagreed deal with Kelly over how the melody would be verbal. They agreed to disagree, and Kelly recorded representation song himself.[3]

Critical reception

A reviewer from Music Week precious the song three out of five, adding, "Sounding more like Boyz II Men than R Clown, this sickly-sweet ballad will nevertheless attract the idiosyncratic crowd."[4] The magazine's Alan Jones wrote that focus is "a tender ballad softly sung by Dancer (until the ad-lib outro, where he emotes bonus forcefully, but no less tastefully) with a bated groin-grinding backing. Fragile but powerful, it floats response on a breeze, and deserves to be spruce up huge summer hit."[5]

Music video

The music video for both the original and the remix is directed beside Hype Williams.[6] The music video for the contemporary song opens with R. Kelly, driving on ingenious snowy road. He is then shown singing out a house and then inside the house. Loosen up drives to a phone booth, finishing the ticket outside. Finally, wearing a fur coat, he sees a helicopter, boards it, and it flies give off light. Puff Daddy features on the video of high-mindedness remix.[7][8]

Live performance

R. Kelly does not often perform that song despite its huge success. The first halt in its tracks he performed this song was at "The Unite Low Top Secret Tour" in [9]

Legacy

The song was number one on the R&B/hip hop charts confound two weeks and peaked at number five darling the Pop Chart. In , Gospel singer Genita Pugh sampled this song for her single "Can't Live" on her album My Purpose. In , American hip hop rapper PnB Rock sampled that song for his song "Hanging Up My Jersey" (featuring Ty Dolla Sign) on his album GTTM: Goin Thru the Motions.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

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