"Nite and Day" is a 1988 single by Al B. Sure!

Al B. Sure!

Albert Jason Brown III is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He grew up in Leonia, New Jersey and Mount Vernon, New York. During the late 1980s under the stage name Al B...

 from the Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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 album In Effect Mode

In Effect Mode

-Reception:Released on May 3, 1988 as a joint venture between Uptown Records and Warner Bros. Records , it was a huge success, having made it to #20 on the Billboard 200 and #1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart...

. It reached number seven on the Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

 and number one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart.

The song was executive produced by Benny Medina

Benny Medina

Benny Medina is the CEO of The Medina Company and son of legendary Jazz drummer Ahmad "Benny" Medina. He has worked in the music business as a producer, talent manager and record executive...

 and Andre Harrell

Andre Harrell

Andre Harrell is founder of the now defunct record label, Uptown Records. Harrell also served as president/CEO of Motown Records. He was also the first half of the hip hop duo Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde.-Biography:...

. It was produced, arranged and musically programmed by Kyle West for Key West International, co-produced and written by Al B. Sure!

Al B. Sure!

Albert Jason Brown III is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He grew up in Leonia, New Jersey and Mount Vernon, New York. During the late 1980s under the stage name Al B...

 for Al B. Sure! International and Uptown Enterprises. The song was recorded at Unique Recording Studios

Unique Recording Studios

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Cover

In 2009, a cover version by Raheem DeVaughn

Raheem DeVaughn

Raheem DeVaughn is an American singer and songwriter. His debut album, The Love Experience , reached No. 46 on the Billboard 200 album chart. It featured the singles "Guess Who Loves You More" and "You". His second album Love Behind the Melody was released in January 2008...

 was leaked as a song off his new "Love & War" mixtape

Mixtape

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Sample

R&B and hip-hop duo P.M. Dawn sampled this song on the single "Sometimes I Miss You So Much", from the 1995 album Jesus Wept

Jesus Wept

Jesus Wept is an album by American hip hop group P.M. Dawn. It was released in October 1995 via Gee Street Records, and was unable to attain the success of the group's first two albums, Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience and The Bliss Album...? ...

. They also had Al B. Sure featured on the music video that was shot for the song.

Elements of the song were sampled for L.L. Cool J's Loungin' from the album Mr. Smith

Mr. Smith

-Track Notes:* No Airplay - edited on both the Edited and Explicit Versions of the Album, However the Explicit only backmasks on the song, the Edited version even edits the intro....

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The song was sampled heavily in "25 Lighters" by DJ DMD featuring Lil' Keke

Lil' Keke

Marcus Lakee Edwards , better known by his stage name Lil' Keke, is a rapper from Houston, Texas and an original member of the Screwed Up Click.-Music career:...

 & Fat Pat

Fat Pat

Patrick Lamark Hawkins , better known by his stage name Fat Pat , was a rapper from Houston, Texas who was a member of DEA with his brother John "Big Hawk" Hawkins and DJ Screw, and an original member of the Screwed Up Click.Wreckshop Records released his first two albums, Ghetto...

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Mannie Fresh

Mannie Fresh

Byron O. Thomas, better known by his stage name Mannie Fresh, is currently an artist and hip-hop producer who records for Def Jam South and his own division Chubby Boy Records...

 interpolated the song in "How We Ride" (2004).

The song was sampled in The Federation

The Federation

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's "My Rimz" (2007).

Jobe Jacobs also did a sample on his mixtape, and posted it on Facebook after his release (2010).

The song was sampled in Western Bay Players by the San Francisco hip-hop artist Guce from his Pure Pressure (1995) album.

Charts

Chart (1988)	Peak Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	7
U.S. Billboard Hot Black Singles	1
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary	19