"Cross My Mind" is a single released in 2005 by American R&B/soul singer/songwriter Jill Scott and from her second album, '' Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2''. The song was an R&B top 40 hit, peaking at number 38 on the Billboard

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chart. The song earned Scott her first

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in 2005, for Best Urban/Alternative Performance.

Composition

"Cross My Mind" includes a

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and loop, with Scott alternating between singing and

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the lyrics.

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music critic Daryl Easlea considered the song to reflect her background in poetry. Easlea described the song as a "poem set to minimal piano and beatbox" and considered its chorus "infectious". R&B website

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included the track in its list of eight Scott songs that "celebrated sexuality through song", highlighting the lyrics "How amazing, how amazing/When you would spread my limbs cross continents", "Bump our bed way over mountains", and "Kiss this and this and this and this".

Reception

Critical

Rashod Ollison, writing for ''

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'', deemed the song a "prime cut" from ''Beautifully Human''.

Commercial

The song became a top 40 hit on the

chart, peaking at number 38 on the chart dated October 22, 2005, and maintaining that position the following week. It also became her seventh top 10 hit on the

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chart, reaching number 6 on the chart dated September 24, 2005. The September 24, 2005, issue of ''

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'' reported that the song was the most-played track on two stations: WHUR (Washington, DC) and

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(Chicago).

Accolades

At the

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, held in 2005, "Cross My Mind" was nominated for Best Urban/Alternative Performance. It was one of three Grammy nominations for Scott that year, along with

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(for " Whatever") and

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(for '' Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2''). Scott ultimately won the award for Best Urban/Alternative Performance, becoming her first Grammy win. She would go on to win two more Grammy awards in

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Track listing

;US CD" Promo Single

Charts

References

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