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2003 single by Mary J. Blige

"Ooh!" is a song by American recording artist Mary J. Blige, taken from her sixth studio album, Love & Life (2003). It was written by Blige, Sean Combs, Dimitri Christo, and Mechalie Jamison, while production was helmed by Combs and Christo. The song contains excerpts from Hamilton Bohannon's 1973 track "Singing a Song for My Mother." Due to the sample, Bohannon ist also credited as a writer. "Ooh!" was released as the album's second single in 2003. It reached number 29 on the US Billboard Hot 100. A remix, officially titled the "G Unit Remix", that featured 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, and Young Buck, was later released. A video for the song was directed by Sanji. It portrayed Blige fighting and dancing different versions of herself, who all represented her inner emotions and feelings. The video was dedicated to the soldiers in the war. Blige received a nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance at the 46th Grammy Awards for the song.

"Ooh!" was as written by Blige along with Sean Combs, Dimitri "The Natural aka D Nat" Christo, and Mechalie Jamison, while production was helmed by Combs and Christo. In a 2003 interview with MTV News she commented: "Puff heard it and he sat there with his mouth open. He was [nodding his head], but he never said anything. He later said that "[That] was fire!" so we let Jimmy Iovine hear it and Jimmy was like, "I like it." Dr. Dre heard it and was like, "That's the joint right there." Then we played it for K Gee and he just lost his mind. We played it for people all over the world when we went on the promotional tour and everything kept coming back 'Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh'." Elizabeth Berry Mendez from The Washington Post wrote: "With its slinky saxophone and Mary's ripe alto, "Ooh!" is the kind of dance floor soul jam that recalls Motown's heyday." Similarly, Billboards Michael Paoletta remarked that the song "recalls "Rock Steady" era Aretha Franklin." In his review of parent album Love & Life, David Browne from Entertainment Weekly noted: [The album] tried to present a more contented Blige but mainly reduced her to moaning orgasmic lines like "Ooh, what you do to me" to thudding Diddy produced beats." BET. com called the song one of the "highlights of Blige's and Combs's reunion on 2003's Love & Life."