"Is That Enough" is a 1977 song recorded by American

United States

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 soul

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 singer Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye

Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. , better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, was an American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range....

. Recorded shortly after a day in court with Anna

Anna Gordy Gaye

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, the usually moody singer pondered around his recording studio before getting his band together to record this song in which Marvin attacked Anna for using her monetary gain to force Gaye to pay for attorney fees. Using a funk

Funk

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ier, blues

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-based and smooth jazz

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 production, Gaye sung in a comfortable tenor. The last two minutes of the song was given to one of Gaye's saxophonists while Gaye is imagined to have smoked his joint as hinted in the lyric this is a joke/I need a smoke. This track would later on be sampled by Three 6 Mafia

Three 6 Mafia

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 on their 2000 single, "Sippin' on Some Syrup

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Personnel

• All vocals, keyboards and synthesizers by Marvin Gaye
• Drums by Bugsy Wilcox
• Bass by Frank Blair
• Guitars by Wali Ali and Gordon Banks
  Gordon Banks (musician)
  Gordon Banks , aka Gordon 'Guitar' Banks, is an American guitarist, producer, writer and musical director. He was voted one of the top 100 guitarists in America in 1985.Banks played an important part in Marvin Gaye's later years...
  
  
• Tenor saxophone by Fernando Harkness