Ryan Leslie x adidas Originals When I Think About Love
I wrote, produced, arranged and recorded this record more than four years ago and it just recently surfaced on the web as a new song. More interesting is the fact that I walked into Duane Read on Broadway two nights ago and a girl in line stopped me excitedly to say, Ryan, Im listening to you right now. She handed me her left headphone and there it was blasting: When I think about love, youre the one I want Being original means having the courage to be different. The first few lines of this song were written with my longtime collaborator and friend Corey Latif Williams. Instead of writing a record from a male perspective with the eversopopular misogynistic undertone, we opted for honesty. This record is about having the guts to admit youre not ready to fully commit and in fact youre actually just thinking about the concept of love. Stevie Wonder wrote a song for the Jungle Fever soundtrack called Make Sure Youre Sure. My song is about the thinking thats necessary in order to be sure that you w
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