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Madonna

Justify My Love

1990 · via JAŸ-Z

Madonna’s 1990 recording of “Justify My Love” is the earliest release on file. Madonna shares the writing credit with Lenny Kravitz and Ingrid Chavez. Also recorded by Frontline Assembly (released 1999), Second Come (released 1993) and Coco (released 2000), among 64 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. JAŸ-Z’s “Justify My Thug” (2003) samples it, per MusicBrainz.

Madonna – Justify My Love
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Check the credits on Jay-Z's track: Lenny Kravitz and Ingrid Chavez are on there, because he built it on Madonna's 1990 record. Spin hers first, then listen for what he kept.

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Credited writers: Lenny Kravitz, Ingrid Chavez and Madonna.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1990.

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JAŸ-Z’s “Justify My Thug” (2003) samples it, per MusicBrainz.

Other recordings on file · first release year

64 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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