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Haddaway

What Is Love

1992 · via Eminem

Haddaway’s 1992 recording of “What Is Love” is the earliest release on file. Dee Dee Halligan and Junior Torello are credited as its writers. Also recorded by Emergency Gate feat. Haddaway (released 2013), Lollies (released 2004) and John Bourke (released 2007), among 83 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. Eminem’s “No Love” (2010) carries this song’s writers on its credit.

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Eminem's "No Love" runs on "What Is Love," and Haddaway had that one on record back in 1992. Play them back to back and you can hear the bones of one inside the other.

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Credited writers: Dee Dee Halligan and Junior Torello.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1992.

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Eminem’s “No Love” (2010) carries this song’s writers on its credit, the mark of a cleared sample or an interpolation.

Other recordings on file · first release year

83 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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