Rub You the Right Way

"Rub You The Right Way"
Single by Johnny Gill
from the album Johnny Gill
Released	March 13, 1990
Format	CD single CD maxi
Recorded	September 1989 at Flyte Tyme Studios (Edina, Minnesota)
Genre	New jack swing
Length	5:32
Label	Motown
Songwriter(s)	James Harris III, Terry Lewis
Producer(s)	Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (album version) DJ Eddie F, Dave "Jam" Hall, Pete Rock (remix)
Johnny Gill singles chronology
"Where Do We Go From Here" (1989) "Rub You The Right Way" (1990) "My, My, My" (1990)
"Where Do We Go From Here" (1989) "Rub You the Right Way" (1990) "My, My, My" (1990)

"Rub You the Right Way" is a song by Johnny Gill. Taken as the first single from the artist's debut album under Motown, the hit song spent one week in May 1990 at number-one on the US R&B chart, and made it to number three on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in August of that year. The single also peaked at number sixteen on the dance charts and was Gill's first single upon the breakup of New Edition and his biggest hit to date. A remixed version of the song exists with a rap verse from CL Smooth.

The remixed version of the song appeared in the popular video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, playing on fictional new jack swing radio station CSR 103.9.

According to Billboard, the song is about sex, more specifically "man who offers to use his hands wisely during a night of lovin'."

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