Released January 9, 1988 Length 4:56 | Genre New jack swing Label Vintertainment/Elektra | |
Format 12" single, cassette single Writer(s) Teddy Riley, Keith Sweat | ||
"Make It Last Forever" is a 1988 single by Keith Sweat and Jacci McGhee. Taken as the second single and the title track from Sweat's debut album, the single peaked at #59 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was a hit on the Hot Black Singles chart, where it peaked at #2.
Covers
Years later, the song would be covered by Chanté Moore and her then-husband, Kenny Lattimore. Large portions of the song would be interpolated in the 2000 "Make It Last Remix" of Mariah Carey's "Thank God I Found You". It was also covered in Hip-Hop as well with the song "Makin' Cash Forever" by Houston, Texas hip-hop group Botany Boyz and "Collect Call" by T.I. on his album Paper Trail. In the fall of 2011, the song was sampled in the remix of the Jacob Latimore song "Like 'Em All" featuring rapper Issa Thompson.