Pleasures U Like

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| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000625795|pure_url=yes}}|title=(((Pleasures U Like > Overview)))|work=AllMusic|access-date=June 20, 2023}}

| rev2 = NME

| rev2Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews-nme-4331-339824|title=Jon B : Pleasures You Like|work=NME|date=September 12, 2005|access-date=June 20, 2023}}

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Billboard critic Michael Paoletta noted that the "album takes listeners through various stages in a relationship — from "boy meets girl" to "I'd do it all again". The set's all- about-the-vibe spirit calls to Marvin Gaye's sensual 1973 sex ode Let's Get It On." But while a musically maturing Jon B. has a way to go before sliding into Gaye's bedroom slippers, he artfully connects the dots between soulful retro grooves and hip-hop beats."{{Cite magazine |first=Michael|last=Paoletta|title=Reviews & Previews|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WxQEAAAAMBAJ | magazine=Billboard| date=March 24, 2001| access-date=June 23, 2023}} The Orlando Sentinel found that while" the title of his latest album sounds a little redundant," Pleasures U Like "is original, fun and basically a smooth hip-hop flavored R&B; album [...] If you enjoy fun hip-hop that makes you want to dance and sultry R&B; that speaks to the heart, this album is for you."{{Cite web |title=Jon B. – Pleasures U Like|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2001/11/09/jon-b-pleasures-u-like/ | work=Orlando Sentinel|date=November 9, 2001| access-date=June 23, 2023}}

Tomika Anderson from Entertainment Weekly found that the singer "hits the bull's-eye with his beautiful love songs" and called the album "a soulful smorgasbord," based on the "right blend of intimacy and titillating sex grooves."{{Cite magazine |first=Tomika |last=Anderson |title=Pleasures U Like|url=https://ew.com/article/2001/04/06/pleasures-u/ | magazine=Entertainment Weekly| date=April 6, 2001| access-date=June 23, 2023}} AllMusic editor Ed Hogan rated the album three out of five stars. He called Pleasures U Like Jon B.'s "most consistent album to date" and noted that a "cool, nighttime dance club vibe flows through the album. Not every song is a dance track; there are also a number of appealing ballads." Diana Evans from NME called the "a sea of rather bland harmonies, limp beats and a ballad avalanche that borders on the tedious" and was "unlikely to bring about any drastic change in Jon's profile."

Pleasures U Like bowed at number six on the US Billboard 200 and number three on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, selling 99,000 in its debut week, becoming the first top ten album for Jon B.{{Cite magazine | first=Geoff|last=Mayfield|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uBMEAAAAMBAJ&q=Jon+B | title=Between the Bullets|magazine=Billboard| date=April 7, 2001|access-date=June 23, 2023}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Pleasures U Like track listing

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| total_length = 73:47

| title1 = Interlude

| writer1 = Jonathan Buck

| extra1 = Jon B.

| length1 = 1:11

| title2 = Finer Things

| note2 = featuring Nas

| writer2 = {{hlist|Buck|Nasir Jones}}

| extra2 = Jon B.

| length2 = 5:01

| title3 = Vibezelect Cafe

| note3 = Interlude

| writer3 = Buck

| extra3 = Jon B.

| length3 = 0:20

| title4 = Don't Talk

| writer4 = Buck

| extra4 = Jon B.

| length4 = 4:44

| title5 = Sof'n Sweet

| writer5 = {{hlist|Buck|Tommy Brown}}

| extra5 = Jon B.

| length5 = 5:03

| title6 = Overjoyed

| note6 = featuring Faith Evans

| writer6 = {{hlist|Buck|Denaine Jones}}

| extra6 = Jon B.

| length6 = 5:36

| title7 = Boy Is Not a Man

| writer7 = {{hlist|Buck|Joshua P. Thompson|Quincy Patrick}}

| extra7 = Thompson, Patrick

| length7 = 4:22

| title8 = Lonely Girl

| writer8 = {{hlist|Buck|Kenneth Edmonds}}

| extra8 = {{hlist|Jon B.|Babyface}}

| length8 = 4:28

| title9 = Cocoa Brown

| writer9 = Buck

| extra9 = Jon B.

| length9 = 3:57

| title10 = What Up Boogotti?

| note10 = Interlude

| writer10 = Buck

| extra10 = Jon B.

| length10 = 0:14

| title11 = All I Want is You

| note11 = featuring Cuban Link

| writer11 = {{hlist|Buck|Felix Delgado}}

| extra11 = Jon B.

| length11 = 5:12

| title12 = Been Played

| note12 = Interlude

| writer12 = Buck

| extra12 = Jon B.

| length12 = 0:53

| title13 = Layaway

| note13 = featuring AZ

| writer13 = {{hlist|Buck|Anthony Cruz}}

| extra13 = Jon B.

| length13 = 4:10

| title14 = Pleasures U Like

| writer14 = {{hlist|Buck|Phillip White|Shawn Rivera|Darryl Anthony Hawes|LeDon Bishop|Ngai McGee}}

| extra14 = Jon B.

| length14 = 3:49

| title15 = Now That I'm with You

| writer15 = {{hlist|Buck|Tim Kelley|Bob Robinson}}

| extra15 = Tim & Bob

| length15 = 4:17

| title16 = My Seed With You

| note16 = Interlude

| writer16 = Buck

| extra16 = Jon B.

| length16 = 0:24

| title17 = Tell Me

| writer17 = Buck

| extra17 = Jon B.

| length17 = 4:56

| title18 = Calling on You

| writer18 = {{hlist|Buck|McGee}}

| extra18 = Jon B.

| length18 = 4:40

| title19 = Inside

| writer19 = Buck

| extra19 = Jon B.

| length19 = 4:57

| title20 = Do It All Again

| writer20 = {{hlist|Buck|David Kopp}}

| extra20 = Jon B.

| length20 = 4:56

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Performers and musicians

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• Jon B. – drum programming, keyboards, vocals
• Babyface – background vocals, drum programming, keyboards
• LeDon Bishop– background vocals
• Tommy Brown – drum programming, keyboards
• Kevin Buck – bass
• Nathan East – bass guitar, cello
• Faith Evans – background vocals
• Kenisha L. Greene– background vocals
• Eric Jackson – guitar
• Tim Kelley – drum programming, keyboards
• Tim Kobza – guitar
• David Kopp – drum programming, keyboards
• Bill Meyers – horn conduction and arrangement
• Shawn Rivera– background vocals
• Bob Robinson – acoustic piano, fender rhodes, guitar
• Joshua P. Thompson – guitar
• Phillip "Silky" White – background vocals

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Technical and management

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• Conley Abrams – mixing, recording
• Jon B. – executive producer, mixing, recording
• Paul Boutin – recording
• Jeff Burroughs – executive producer
• Earl Cohen – mixing, recording
• Tracey Edmonds – executive producer
• Jon Gass – mixing
• Chris Gehringer – mastering
• Jerome Goodall – recording
• Dave Guererro – mixing
• JayJay Jackson – art direction and design
• Tim Kelley – recording
• Manny Marroquin – mixing
• Victor McCoy – mixing
• Michael McQuarn – executive producer
• Michael Patterson – mixing
• Dave Pensado – mixing, recording
• Josean Posey – mixing
• Norman Jean Roy – photography

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