Touch It (Monifah song)

"Touch It" is the lead single from Monifah's second album, Mo'hogany. The R&B/dance hybrid was produced and written by Jack Knight and Screwface, who used a sample of Laid Back's 1983 hit, "White Horse".

"Touch It"
Single by Monifah
from the album Mo'hogany
Released21 July 1998
Format
Recorded1998
Genre
Length4:45
LabelUptown / Universal
Songwriter(s)
  • Albert Joseph Charles
  • Jack Knight
  • John Guldberg
  • Tim Stahl
Producer(s)Jack Knight
Monifah singles chronology
"I Still Love You"
(1997)		 "Touch It"
(1998)		 "Bad Girl"
(1999)
Music video
"Touch It" on YouTube

Released as a single in the summer of 1998, the song became a worldwide hit, charting within the top 20 in Australia, Belgium and Canada. In the United States it peaked at number nine on both the Billboard Hot 100 and on the Billboard Hot R&B Singles chart. "Touch It" is Monifah's highest peak position on the US charts, though it did not receive a gold certification like her 1996 hit "You", and was her only single to appear on the Billboard year-end charts, reaching 77 on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1998. The song's music video features Monifah performing the song in front of the United States armed forces.

Track listings

US and Australian CD single

  1. "Touch It" (radio edit) — 3:59
  2. "Touch It" (album version) — 4:46

European CD single

  1. "Touch It" (clean radio edit) — 4:00
  2. "Touch It" (Clark Kent remix) — 4:17
  3. "Touch It" (Ignorants remix) — 4:13
  4. "Touch It" (Maurice Joshua main edit) — 7:12

Charts and certifications

Cover versions and samples
  • 2003: Dannii Minogue sampled the song and Laid's 1983 original White Horse on the album track Push taken from the 2003 album Neon Nights
  • 2014: Nena Buddemeier (ft. DJ Tomekk)

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