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| type = single
| type = single
| artist = [[Lost Boyz]]
| artist = [[Lost Boyz]]
| album = [[Legal Drug Money]] and [[Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (soundtrack)|Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood: The Soundtrack]]
| album = [[Legal Drug Money]] ''and'' [[Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (soundtrack)|Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood: The Soundtrack]]
| released = {{Start date|1996|01|30}}
| released = {{Start date|1996|01|30}}
| recorded = 1995
| recorded = 1995
| studio =D&D Recording Studios
| studio = D&D Recording Studios
| venue =
| genre = [[Hip hop music|Hip hop]]
| genre = [[Hip hop music|Hip hop]]
| length = {{Duration|m=5|s=00}}
| length = {{Duration|m=5|s=00}}
| label = [[Uptown Records|Uptown]]
| label = [[Uptown Records|Uptown]]
| writer = [[Mr. Cheeks|Terrance Kelly]], [[Big Dex|Dexter Archer]]
| writer =
* [[Mr. Cheeks|Terrance Kelly]]
* [[Big Dex|Dexter Archer]]
| producer = *Mr. Sexxx
| producer =
* Mr. Sexxx
*"Buttnaked" Tim Dawg
* "Buttnaked" Tim Dawg
| prev_title = [[Jeeps, Lex Coups, Bimaz & Benz]]
| prev_title = [[Jeeps, Lex Coups, Bimaz & Benz]]
| prev_year = 1995
| prev_year = 1995
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}}
}}


"'''Renee'''" is a song by rap group [[Lost Boyz]] from their first studio album ''[[Legal Drug Money]]'' and the [[Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (soundtrack)|''Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood'' soundtrack]].{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} It samples the [[Janet Jackson]] song "[[Funny How Time Flies (When You're Having Fun)]]". It was the Lost Boyz' most successful single, reaching number 33 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] (their only one to reach to top 40) and earning a gold certification from the [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]] for sales of 500,000 copies.
"'''Renee'''" is a song by American rap group [[Lost Boyz]] from their first studio album ''[[Legal Drug Money]]'' and the [[Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (soundtrack)|''Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood'' soundtrack]].{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} It samples the [[Janet Jackson]] song "[[Funny How Time Flies (When You're Having Fun)]]". It was the Lost Boyz' most successful single, reaching number 33 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] (their only one to reach to top 40) and earning a gold certification from the [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]] for sales of 500,000 copies.


==Song information ==
==Song information ==
The song's lyrics discuss the narrator, a young man, who meets a woman named Renee while coming back from [[John Jay College of Criminal Justice]]. The narrator promptly attempts to initiate a relationship. The song describes that Renee is studying to be a lawyer, while the narrator is a writer. The pair date for several weeks, but the relationship ends abruptly when she is shot to death by a burglar at a robbery.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E1DB1130F93AA15750C0A96F958260 | work=The New York Times | title=Member of Lost Boyz Hip-Hop Group Slain | date=1999-03-29}}</ref> The moral of the song is ''"ghetto love is the law that we live by,"'' describing the inevitable suffering of [[tragedy (event)|tragedy]] by those raised in [[slum|crime-ridden areas]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05E1DF173EF930A25753C1A960958260 | work=The New York Times | first=Michel | last=Marriott | title=Touched by Death, Hip-Hop Turns to Dirges | date=1996-10-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E1DF1238F931A3575AC0A960958260&sec=&spon= | work=The New York Times | first=Neil | last=Strauss | title=Heartfelt Tales From the Mean Streets | date=1996-09-02}}</ref>
The song's lyrics discuss the narrator, a young man, who meets a woman named Renee while coming back from [[John Jay College of Criminal Justice]]. The narrator promptly attempts to initiate a relationship. The song describes that Renee is studying to be a lawyer, while the narrator is a writer. The pair date for several weeks, but the relationship ends abruptly when she is shot to death by a burglar at a robbery.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E1DB1130F93AA15750C0A96F958260 | work=The New York Times | title=Member of Lost Boyz Hip-Hop Group Slain | date=1999-03-29}}</ref> The moral of the song is ''"ghetto love is the law that we live by,"'' describing the inevitable suffering of [[tragedy (event)|tragedy]] by those raised in [[slum|crime-ridden areas]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05E1DF173EF930A25753C1A960958260 | work=The New York Times | first=Michel | last=Marriott | title=Touched by Death, Hip-Hop Turns to Dirges | date=1996-10-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E1DF1238F931A3575AC0A960958260&sec=&spon= | work=The New York Times | first=Neil | last=Strauss | title=Heartfelt Tales From the Mean Streets | date=1996-09-02}}</ref>


==Charts ==
==Charts==


===Peak positions ===
===Weekly charts===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+Weekly chart performance for "Renee"
!Chart (1996)
!scope="col"|Chart (1996)
!Peak<br>position
!scope="col"|Peak<br />position
|-
|-
!scope="row"|US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1996-05-04/|title=Billboard Hot 100: Week of May 4, 1996|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=November 4, 2023}}</ref>
|''Billboard'' Hot 100
|align="center"|33
|align="center"|33
|-
|-
!scope="row"|US ''Billboard'' [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks]]<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/r-b-hip-hop-songs/1996-05-04/|title=Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs: Week of May 4, 1996|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=November 4, 2023}}</ref>
|''Billboard'' Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks
|align="center"|13
|align="center"|13
|-
|-
!scope="row"|US ''Billboard'' [[Hot Rap Singles]]<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/r-b-hip-hop-songs/1996-04-13/|title=Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs: Week of April 13, 1996|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=November 4, 2023}}</ref>
|''Billboard'' Hot Rap Singles
|align="center"|3
|align="center"|3
|}
|}


===Year-End charts===
===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+Year-end chart performance for "Renee"
!align="left"|End of year chart (1996)
!scope="col"|Chart (1996)
!align="center"|Position
!scope="col"|Position
|-
|-
|''Billboard'' Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sQkEAAAAMBAJ&q=Billboard%201996&pg=RA1-PA15|title=Billboard Year-End Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks - 1996|date=28 December 1996|accessdate=2011-11-10}}</ref>
!scope="row"|US ''Billboard'' Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sQkEAAAAMBAJ&q=Billboard%201996&pg=RA1-PA15|title=Billboard Year-End Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks - 1996|date=28 December 1996|accessdate=2011-11-10}}</ref>
|align="center"|65
|align="center"|65
|-
|-
|''Billboard'' Hot Rap Singles<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sQkEAAAAMBAJ&q=Billboard%201996&pg=RA1-PA17|title=Billboard Year-End Hot Rap Singles - 1996|date=28 December 1996|accessdate=2011-11-10}}</ref>
!scope="row"|US ''Billboard'' Hot Rap Singles<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sQkEAAAAMBAJ&q=Billboard%201996&pg=RA1-PA17|title=Billboard Year-End Hot Rap Singles - 1996|date=28 December 1996|accessdate=2011-11-10}}</ref>
|align="center"|17
|align="center"|17
|}
|}


==Certifications==
==Certifications==
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Top|caption=Certifications for "Renee"}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|artist=Lost Boyz|title=Renee|award=Gold|type=single|relyear=1996|certyear=1996}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|artist=Lost Boyz|title=Renee|award=Gold|type=single|relyear=1996|certyear=1996}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=yes}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=yes}}

Latest revision as of 16:17, 3 November 2023

"Renee"
Single by Lost Boyz
from the album Legal Drug Money and Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood: The Soundtrack
ReleasedJanuary 30, 1996 (1996-01-30)
Recorded1995
StudioD&D Recording Studios
GenreHip hop
Length5:00
LabelUptown
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Mr. Sexxx
  • "Buttnaked" Tim Dawg
Lost Boyz singles chronology
"Jeeps, Lex Coups, Bimaz & Benz"
(1995) 		"Renee"
(1996) 		"Music Makes Me High"
(1996)

"Renee" is a song by American rap group Lost Boyz from their first studio album Legal Drug Money and the Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood soundtrack.[citation needed] It samples the Janet Jackson song "Funny How Time Flies (When You're Having Fun)". It was the Lost Boyz' most successful single, reaching number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 (their only one to reach to top 40) and earning a gold certification from the RIAA for sales of 500,000 copies.

Song information

[edit]

The song's lyrics discuss the narrator, a young man, who meets a woman named Renee while coming back from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The narrator promptly attempts to initiate a relationship. The song describes that Renee is studying to be a lawyer, while the narrator is a writer. The pair date for several weeks, but the relationship ends abruptly when she is shot to death by a burglar at a robbery.[1] The moral of the song is "ghetto love is the law that we live by," describing the inevitable suffering of tragedy by those raised in crime-ridden areas.[2][3]

Charts

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Weekly charts

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Weekly chart performance for "Renee"
Chart (1996) Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100[4] 33
US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks[5] 13
US Billboard Hot Rap Singles[6] 3

Year-end charts

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Year-end chart performance for "Renee"
Chart (1996) Position
US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks[7] 65
US Billboard Hot Rap Singles[8] 17

Certifications

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Certifications for "Renee"
Region Certification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[9] Gold 500,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

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  1. ^ "Member of Lost Boyz Hip-Hop Group Slain". The New York Times. 1999-03-29.
  2. ^ Marriott, Michel (1996-10-13). "Touched by Death, Hip-Hop Turns to Dirges". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Strauss, Neil (1996-09-02). "Heartfelt Tales From the Mean Streets". The New York Times.
  4. ^ "Billboard Hot 100: Week of May 4, 1996". Billboard. Retrieved November 4, 2023.
  5. ^ "Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs: Week of May 4, 1996". Billboard. Retrieved November 4, 2023.
  6. ^ "Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs: Week of April 13, 1996". Billboard. Retrieved November 4, 2023.
  7. ^ Billboard Year-End Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks - 1996. 28 December 1996. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  8. ^ Billboard Year-End Hot Rap Singles - 1996. 28 December 1996. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  9. ^ "American single certifications – Lost Boyz – Renee". Recording Industry Association of America.
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