Recorded 1997-98 Length 4:01 | Genre R&B, funk Label Bad Boy | |
Released September 15, 1998 (1998-09-15) Format CD, maxi, 12", cassette | ||
"Love Like This" is a song by American recording artist Faith Evans. It was written by Evans, Ron Lawrence, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Clarence Emery, and Schon Crawford, for her second studio album Keep the Faith (1998), with production helmed by Lawrence and Combs. Built around a looped sample from "Chic Cheer," performed by American disco group Chic and penned by band members Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers, the song initially impacted on US radios on September 15, 1998 as the album's lead single.
Commercially, "Love Like This" became one of Evans's biggest successes: It charted within the top thirty in New Zealand and the United Kingdom and peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, marking her highest-charting solo single to date. On the component Hot R&B Singles & Tracks chart, the song reached number 2; it was eventually certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
The song was nominated for Best Female R&B Performance at the 1999 Grammy Awards ceremony, "Love Like This," in turn, was later heavily sampled on American rapper Fatman Scoop's "Be Faithful".
Music video
The song's music video, directed by Hype Williams, depicts people at a colorful skating rink with Faith singing on a platform in the center. The music video also shows actress Countess Vaughn and former child actor Marcus T. Paulk, both from the UPN sitcom Moesha, in cameos.