Do You Like The Way

Album: Supernatural (1999)
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  • When Clive Davis at Arista Records offered some A-listers the chance to guest on Santana's Supernatural, many of them took him up on it. Santana had been out of action for a while but the group is highly respected and influential, particularly their guitarist and namesake, Carlos Santana. On "Do You Like The Way," both Lauryn Hill and Cee Lo Green join in, with Hill taking the verses and Green handling the hook. Combined with a horn section and Carlos Santana's guitar, it has a lot going for it, but somehow wasn't released as a single. It did help Supernatural sell over 15 million copies in America and guzzle up eight Grammys.
  • Lauryn Hill wrote and produced this song, which asks us to all pitch in to help make the world a better place through enlightened understanding and compassion.

    Hill was red hot at the time, coming off her highly acclaimed album The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill. Cee Lo wasn't as well known as he had yet to form Gnarls Barkley. Hill's bandmate in the Fugees, Wyclef Jean, worked on another track from the album that was released as a single and shot to #1: "Maria Maria."
  • Cee Lo and Lauryn Hill performed this song with Santana at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium for a TV concert special that was later released as the DVD Santana: Supernatural Live.

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