“Real Love” is a 1992 hit single by hip hop soul singer Mary J. Blige. It was the second single off Blige’s debut album, What’s the 411?. Written and produced by Mark C. Rooney and Mark Morales (of The Fat Boys fame) and built off a drum sample from Audio Two’s 1988 hip hop classic, “Top Billin’,” it was one of the songs that helped define Blige as “the queen of hip-hop soul.”

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(Check Out Video After Jump)“Real Love” was her first top-ten pop hit, peaking at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100, and her second number one hit on Billboard’s R&B singles chart. The remix featured the first appearance of famed rapper The Notorious B.I.G., who was then going by the name Biggie Smalls, and a sample of Betty Wright’s 1972 single, “Clean-Up Woman.” The song eventually helped What’s the 411? sell more than three million copies in America alone.