Love & Basketball is the original soundtrack to the 2000 film, Love & Basketball. It was released on April 18, 2000 through New Line Records

New Line Records

WaterTower Music is an American record label owned by Time Warner and operates as a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment. Founded to release movie soundtracks, the label has grown beyond this initial purpose and has built a roster of indie rock acts such as The Sounds, OFFICE, Robbers on High...

 and mostly consisted of contemporary R&B, with some hip hop. The soundtrack was a minor success, peaking at 45 on the Billboard 200

Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

, 15 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999...

 and 9 on the Top Soundtracks.

Track listing

1. "I'll Go
   I'll Go (Rahsaan Patterson song)
   "I'll Go" is a song by American neo soul/R&B singer Rahsaan Patterson.The song was co-written, co-produced by Patterson and Steve Hurley, never officially released on any Patterson albums...
   
   " — Donell Jones
   Donell Jones
   Donell Jones is an American R&B singer, songwriter and record producer.He is most notable for the hits "U Know What's Up," "Where I Wanna Be," and his cover of Stevie Wonder's "Knocks Me Off My Feet"...
   
     – 4:01
2. "It Takes Two" — Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock  – 5:01
3. "Dance Tonight" — Lucy Pearl
   Lucy Pearl
   Lucy Pearl was an R&B supergroup formed in 1999, as the brainchild of former Tony! Toni! Toné! member Raphael Saadiq and D'Angelo. However, D'Angelo backed out of the group due to scheduling conflicts. The other members of Lucy Pearl were Dawn Robinson and Ali Shaheed Muhammad...
   
     – 3:50
4. "Complete Beloved" — Black Eyed Peas
   The Black Eyed Peas
   The Black Eyed Peas are an American pop group , formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1995. The group includes rappers will.i.am, apl.de.ap, and Taboo, and singer Fergie. Since the release of their third album Elephunk in 2003, the group has sold an estimated 56 million records worldwide...
   
     – 4:19
5. "I Like" — Guy
   Guy (band)
   Guy are a hip hop, R&B and soul band most closely associated with the new jack swing style of the 1980s and 1990s.-Origins :Guy was formed in Harlem, New York in 1987 by R&B singer-songwriters Aaron Hall, young musician/record producer Teddy Riley and Timmy Gatling...
   
     – 4:48
6. "Lyte as a Rock" — MC Lyte
   MC Lyte
   MC Lyte is an American rapper who first gained fame in the late-1980s becoming the first solo female rapper to release a full album with 1988's critically acclaimed Lyte as a Rock.-Early life:...
   
     – 3:32
7. "Holding Back the Years" — Angie Stone
   Angie Stone
   Angie Stone is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress. She has been nominated for three Grammy Award. She is more successful on the charts R&B charts, with four Top 10 albums, forms including a number one album and 10 singles on the R&B chart,...
   
     – 6:37
8. "Love and Happiness" — Al Green
   Al Green
   Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer. He reached the peak of his popularity in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "You Oughta Be With Me", "I'm Still In Love With You", "Love and Happiness", and "Let's Stay Together"...
   
     – 5:01
9. "Soul Sista" — Bilal
   Bilal (musician)
   Bilal Sayeed Oliver , better known by his stage name Bilal, is an American neo soul/jazz singer-songwriter, musician and producer. He is also a core member of the loose collective, the Soulquarians. Bilal started out by singing in small clubs until he began classical training in jazz and big-band...
   
     – 4:20
10. "Sweet Thing" — Rufus & Chaka Khan  – 3:16
11. "I Want to Be Your Man" — Zapp & Roger  – 4:09
12. "Fool of Me" — Me'Shell NdegeOcello
    Me'shell Ndegeocello
    Meshell Ndegeocello is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, bassist, and vocalist. Her music incorporates a wide variety of influences, including funk, soul, hip hop, reggae, R&B, rock, and jazz. She has received significant critical acclaim throughout her career, and has had ten career Grammy...
    
      – 3:30

Credits

• Will Adams
  Will.i.am
  William James Adams, Jr. , better known by his stage name will.i.am and occasionally by his other stage name Zuper Blahq, is an American rapper, musician, songwriter, singer, actor and producer...
  
   — Arranger, Producer, Engineer
• Terence Blanchard
  Terence Blanchard
  Terence Oliver Blanchard is an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, arranger, and film score composer. Since he emerged on the scene in 1980 with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra and then shortly thereafter with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Blanchard has been a leading artist in jazz...
  
   — Composer
• Bernie Grundman — Mastering
• Kim Hill
  Kim Hill (soul musician)
  Kim Hill is an American soul singer-songwriter, best known for being the backup vocalist in the hip-hop band Black Eyed Peas. She left the band in 2000 and was replaced by Fergie in 2002...
  
   — Vocals (bckgr)
• Steve "Silk" Hurley — Arranger, Programming, Producer, Engineer, Mixing
• James Lassiter — Executive Soundtrack Producer
• Pilar McCurry — Executive Soundtrack Producer
• James Mtume
  James Mtume
  James Mtume is a jazz and R&B musician and a radio personality. Mtume's group is perhaps best known for their 1983 R&B hit song "Juicy Fruit". The song was sampled by The Notorious B.I.G. in his song "Juicy"...
  
   — Vocal Pmjoljroducer
• Ali Shaheed Muhammad
  Ali Shaheed Muhammad
  Ali Shaheed Muhammad is an American hip hop DJ, rapper, producer who enjoyed a great deal of fame as a member of A Tribe Called Quest. With Q-Tip and Phife Dawg, the group released five studio albums from 1990 to 1998....
  
   — Producer
• Mitch Rotter — Soundtrack Executive Producer
• Raphael Saadiq
  Raphael Saadiq
  Raphael Saadiq is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. Saadiq has been a standard bearer for "old school" R&B since his early days as a member of the multiplatinum group Tony! Toni! Toné! He also produced songs of such artists as TLC, Joss Stone, D'Angelo, Mary J...
  
   — Producer, String Arrangements
• Angie Stone
  Angie Stone
  Angie Stone is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress. She has been nominated for three Grammy Award. She is more successful on the charts R&B charts, with four Top 10 albums, forms including a number one album and 10 singles on the R&B chart,...
  
   — Arranger, Producer, Vocal Arrangement

Miscellanea

The tracks Our Destiny performed by Hinda Hicks

Hinda Hicks

Hinda Hicks is a Tunisian born singer, with British nationality having moved to West Sussex as a child.-Introduction:Hicks originally sang with an R&B band called the Fabulous Fug Band and at one time sent a demo of her vocals alongside Aretha Franklin's "Giving Him Something He Can Feel" to Phil...

, This Woman's Work by Maxwell

Maxwell (musician)

Maxwell , is an American R&B, funk and neo soul musician. He played an important role in the development of the soul sub-genre, neo-soul.-Early life:...

, and I Go To Work by Kool Moe Dee

Kool Moe Dee

Mohandas Dewese , better known as Kool Moe Dee, is an American Hip Hop MC prominent in the late 1970s through the early 1990s. He was born in Manhattan, New York...

, which feature prominently in the movie, do not appear on the soundtrack. This Woman's Work

This Woman's Work

- Disc 2 - Lionheart :- Disc 3 - Never for Ever :- Disc 4 - The Dreaming :- Disc 5 - Hounds of Love :- Disc 6 - The Sensual World :- Disc 7 - This Woman's Work: Volume One :- Disc 8 - This Woman's Work: Volume Two :...

 by Maxwell

Maxwell (musician)

Maxwell , is an American R&B, funk and neo soul musician. He played an important role in the development of the soul sub-genre, neo-soul.-Early life:...

 is a cover of the song of the same name by Kate Bush

Kate Bush

Kate Bush is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic vocal style have made her one of the United Kingdom's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years.In 1978, at the age of 19, Bush topped the UK Singles Chart...

.

Charts

Billboard Music Charts (North America) - album

2000 Love & Basketball Billboard 200 No. 45
2000 Love & Basketball Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums No. 15
2000 Love & Basketball Top Independent Albums No. 9

Billboard Music Charts (North America) - single
2000 Dance Tonight Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs No. 5