"Renee" is a song by rap group Lost Boyz from their second studio album Legal Drug Money

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and the Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood soundtrack

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. It samples the Janet Jackson

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 song "Funny How Time Flies (When You're Having Fun)

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". It was the Lost Boyz' most successful single, reaching number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100

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 (their only one to reach to top 40) and earning a gold certification from the RIAA

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 for sales of 500,000 copies.

Song information

The song's lyrics discuss the narrator, a young man, who meets a woman named Renee while coming back from John Jay College of Criminal Justice

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. The narrator promptly attempts to initiate a relationship. The song describes that Renee is studying to be a lawyer, while the narrator is a writer. The pair date for several weeks, but the relationship ends abruptly when she is shot to death. The moral of the song is "ghetto love is the law that we live by," describing the inevitable suffering of tragedy by those raised in crime-ridden areas

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Peak positions

Chart (1996)	Peak position
Billboard Hot 100	33
Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks	13
Billboard Hot Rap Singles	3

Year-End charts

End of year chart (1996)	Position
Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks	65
Billboard Hot Rap Singles	17