"Music" is a 2001 hit single by Erick Sermon

Erick Sermon

Erick Sermon , in Bay Shore, New York is an American rapper, musician, and producer.Sermon is best known as half of late-1980s/1990s hip hop group EPMD and for production work. He currently resides in Islandia, New York.- Career :...

 featuring archived vocals from Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye

Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. , better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, was an American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range....

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The song was thought of by Sermon after buying a copy of Gaye's Midnight Love and the Sexual Healing Sessions album, which overlook some of the original album's earlier mixes. After listening to an outtake of Gaye's 1982 album track, "Turn On Some Music" (titled "I've Got My Music" in its initial version), Sermon decided to mix the vocals (done in acapella) and add it into his own song. The result was similar to Natalie Cole

Natalie Cole

Natalie Maria Cole , is an American singer, songwriter and performer. The daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, Cole rode to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with the hits "This Will Be ", "Inseparable" and "Our Love"...

's interpolation of her father, jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 great Nat "King" Cole's hit, "Unforgettable" revisioned as a duet. The hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 and soul

Soul music

Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

 duet featuring the two veteran performers was released as the leading song of the soundtrack to the failed Martin Lawrence

Martin Lawrence

Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence is an American actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and stand up comedian. He came to fame during the 1990s, establishing a Hollywood career as a leading actor, most notably the films Bad Boys, Blue Streak, and Big Momma's House...

 comedy, "What's the Worst That Could Happen?" The song became a runaway success rising to #2 on Billboard's R&B chart and was #1 on the rap charts. It also registered at #21 pop giving Sermon his highest-charted single on the pop charts as a solo artist and giving Gaye his first posthumous hit in 10 years following 1991's R&B-charted single, "My Last Chance

My Last Chance

"My Last Chance" was a posthumous R&B hit for music icon Marvin Gaye in 1991. Released as a single from Gaye's The Marvin Gaye Collection, the song was originally recorded by Gaye between the years 1970 and 1972. It provided the basis for Marvin's penned ballad for The Miracles , "I Love You...

" also bringing Gaye his 41st top 40 pop hit.

Peak positions

Chart (2001)	Peak position
Billboard Hot 100	22
Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks	2
Billboard Hot Rap Singles	4
Billboard Rhythmic Top 40	26

Year-End charts

End of year chart (2001)	Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	83