Do for Love
single
CoverDoforLove.jpg
Artist2Pac featuring Eric Williams
AlbumR U Still Down? (Remember Me)
B-sideBrenda's Got a Baby
Released1998
Recorded1994
GenreHip hop soul · R&B
Length4:40
LabelAmaru · Interscope · Jive
WriterAlfons Kettner · Bobby Caldwell · Carsten Schack · Kenneth Karlin · Tupac Shakur · James Yancey (uncredited)
ProducerSoulshock & Karlin[1]
Chronology2Pac
Prev year1998
Next year1998

"Do for Love" (originally titled "Sucka 4 Luv" in its unreleased form) was the second and final posthumously released single by Tupac Shakur from his second posthumous album R U Still Down? (Remember Me).

Originally recorded for the album Me Against The World, the vocal sample is from "What You Won't Do for Love" by Bobby Caldwell. The song was produced by Soulshock & Karlin. It charted at #21 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, and #12 in the UK.

Commercial performance

The song was certified Gold by RIAA on March 31, 1998, selling over 500,000 copies.[2][3]

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for "Do for Love"
Chart (1998)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[4]52

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for "Do for Love"
Chart (1998)Position
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[5]86
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[6]86
US Billboard Hot 100[7]89
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[8]46

References

  1. ^ "Production discography". Soulshock & Karlin. soulpower.net. Archived from the original on February 14, 2012. Retrieved March 10, 2012.
  2. ^ RIAA
  3. ^ "Best-Selling Records of 1998". Billboard. Vol. 111, no. 5. BPI Communications Inc. January 30, 1999. p. 75. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved June 3, 2015.
  4. ^ p. 287.
  5. ^ "Top 100-Jaaroverzicht van 1998". Dutch Top 40. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
  6. ^ "Jaaroverzichten – Single 1998". Dutch Charts. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
  7. ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1998". Archived from the original on March 9, 2009. Retrieved August 28, 2010.
  8. ^ "1998 The Year in Music". Billboard. Vol. 110, no. 52. December 26, 1998. p. YE-51. Retrieved July 16, 2021.