Inside My Love

"Inside My Love" is a 1975 single by Minnie Riperton from her album Adventures in Paradise. It was co-written by Riperton, Leon Ware and Richard Rudolph.

"Inside My Love"
Single by Minnie Riperton
from the album Adventures in Paradise
B-side"Don't Let Anyone Bring You Down"
Released1975
Recorded1975
GenreSoul
Length3:50
LabelEpic
Songwriter(s)Minnie Riperton, Leon Ware and Richard Rudolph
Producer(s)Minnie Riperton, Richard Rudolph, Stewart Levine
Minnie Riperton singles chronology
"Lovin' You"
(1975)		 "Inside My Love"
(1975)		 "Simple Things"
(1975)

Critical reception

BBC Music wrote "Of Ware’s tracks, the standout is Inside My Love, where ambiguous yet explicit sexual imagery is tempered by the innocence of Riperton’s vocal."[1]

In a positive review Andy Kellman wrote "Each of the Riperton/Rudolph/Ware songs ooze playful sensuality, desire, and lust -- especially "Inside My Love" (a Top 30 R&B single), a swooning slow jam filled with double entendres."[2]

Covers and samples

"Inside My Love" became somewhat of a standard, enjoying numerous covers:

  • Intelligent Hoodlum sampled the song in "Street Life Return Of The Life Mix" from his 1993 album Saga of a Hoodlum.
  • J. Cole sampled the song for his 2016 single "everybody dies".

The guitar riff was sampled for the Rubberbandits' 2011 single "I Wanna Fight Your Father", with a more prominent feature of the riff in the Irish version "Ba Mhaith Liom Bruíon le d'Athair".

  • The song was featured in the 1999 film Road Trip.

Delilah version
"Inside My Love"
Single by Delilah
from the album From the Roots Up
Released13 July 2012
Recorded2011
Genre
Length4:41
LabelWarner Music
Songwriter(s)Minnie Riperton, Leon Ware and Richard Rudolph
Producer(s)
  • Delilah
  • Mikey J
  • Natalie Llaina
Delilah singles chronology
"Breathe"
(2012)		 "Inside My Love"
(2012)		 "Shades of Grey"
(2012)

British musician Delilah released a cover version of the song on July 13, 2012 as a digital download in the United Kingdom as the fourth single from her debut album, From the Roots Up. The song peaked to number 60 on the UK Singles Chart.

Music video

A music video to accompany the release of "Inside My Love" was first released onto YouTube on 19 June 2012 at a total length of four minutes and twenty-three seconds.[3]

Track listing
UK Digital download
No.TitleLength
1."Inside My Love"4:41
2."Inside My Love" (Redlight Remix)4:25
3."Inside My Love" (Live from Maida Vale)4:40
4."Inside My Love" (Radio Edit)3:24
5."Inside My Love" (Whateverman Remix)4:20

Chart performance
Chart (2012) Peak
position
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[4] 60

Release history
Country Release date Format Label
United Kingdom 13 July 2012[5] Digital download Warner Music
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References
  1. Easla, Daryl. "There is sultry ambience on Minnie's Lament". Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  2. Kellman, Andy. "Inside My Love reviews". AllMusic. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  3. Delilah - Inside My Love [Official Video] on YouTube
  4. Official Charts - Delilah - Inside My Love
  5. iTunes - Music - Inside My Love - EP by Delilah
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