"I Love You" is a song by American recording artist Faith Evans. It was written by Anthony Best, Faith Evans, Isaac Hayes, Michael Jamison, Bobby Springsteen, and Jennifer Lopez for the latter's second studio J.Lo (2001), but eventually recorded by Evans for her third studio album, Faithfully, also released in 2001. Production on the track was helmed by Buckwild along with Mario Winans and Sean "P. Diddy" Combs. A contemporary R&B ballad with heavy soul elements, it samples Hayes' 1976 record "Make a Little Love to Me" and finds Evans, as the protagonist, confessing her love and dignity to a man who has yet to find a heart for her.