ethos, she's never soft if often vulnerable, and as befits her hip hop aesthetic, she plays her natural vocal cadences for melodic signature and sometimes hook. She redefines the New York accent for the '90s. And she's taken two straight follow-ups to the next level." Jonathan Bernstein from Entertainment Weekly was more critical, finding Share My World "uneven" and the songwriting "meandering and half finished." Tom Moon later wrote in The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004) that the record displayed "Blige's hit-song savvy but fewer memorable performances" than previous albums. Awards and nominations Track listing Sample credits "Everything" contains a sample of "You Are Everything" as performed by The Stylistics; "The Payback" as performed by James Brown; "Sukiyaki" as performed by A Taste of Honey. "Get to Know You Better" contains an interpolation of "My Cherie Amour" as performed by Stevie Wonder. "I Can Love You" contains a sample of "Queen Bitch" as performed by Lil' Kim. "Love Is All We Need" contains a sample of "Moonchild" as performed by Rick James. "Round and Round" contains a sample of "Go Back Home" as performed by Allen Toussaint. "Share My World" contains an interpolation of "Share My World" by DeBarge. Personnel Credits for Share My World adapted from AllMusic. Musicians Roy Ayers – Vibraphone George Benson – Guitar Gene Bianco – String Arrangements, String Conductor, String Contractor LaTonya Blige-DaCosta – Vocals (Background) Mary J. Blige – Executive Producer, Vocals, Vocals (Background) Darryl Brown – Bass Mary Brown – Vocals (Background) Mike Campbell – Guitar Lafayette Carthon, Jr. – Keyboards Minio Class – Fender Rhodes DJ Do It All – Scratching Nathan East – Bass Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds – Arranger, Drum Programming, Keyboards, Musician, Producer Basil Fearrington – Bass Michael Jordan – Guitar R. Kelly – Instrumentation, Mixing, Multi Instruments, Performer, Producer, Vocals, Vocals (Background) Lil' Kim – Rap The LOX – Rap Josh Milan – Keyboards Ed Moore – Guitar Ed Tree Moore – Guitar James Mussen – Drums Nas – Rap Dunn Pearson, Jr. – Keyboards Malik Pendleton – Mixing, Multi Instruments, Producer, Vocal Arrangement, Vocals (Background) Mike Scott – Guitar Shanice – Vocals (Background) Abdulhameed Zuhri – Guitar Production Dionne Alexander – Hair Stylist Bilal Allah – Sequencing Engineer Kyle Bess – Assistant Engineer, Mixing, Mixing Assistant Bob "Bassy" Bob Brackmann – Mixing Chris Brickley – Engineer Trey Fratt – Assistant Engineer Ben Garrison – Engineer Jon Gass –