Drivin' Me Wild

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“Drivin' Me Wild”
Single by Common featuring Lily Allen from the album Finding Forever
B-side	"Testify"
Released	October 1, 2007 (U.S.)
Format	CD single, 12" single
Recorded	2007
Genre	Hip hop
Length	3:42
Label	G.O.O.D. Music/Geffen
Writer(s)	Common
Producer	Kanye West
Common singles chronology
"The Game" (2007) "Drivin' Me Wild" (2007) "I Want You" (2007)
Lily Allen singles chronology
"Oh My God" (2007) "Drivin' Me Wild" (2007) "TBA" (2008)

"Drivin' Me Wild" is the third single taken from Common's 2007 album Finding Forever, which features Lily Allen. "Drivin' Me Wild" samples "Love Has Fallen on Me" by Rotary Connection. Kanye West produced the beat and is heard singing background vocals behind Lily Allen. It was the first single taken from the album in the UK. Contrary to many lyric sites, the final line of the chorus goes "Love's not a mystery, its everything." Lyric sites have instead posted "it's not a mystery, it's everything."

Contents 1 Music video 2 Track listing 2.1 UK CD single 3 Charts 4 Pop culture references 5 References

[edit] Music video

The music video for "Drivin' Me Wild" features Jeremy Piven and Los Angeles Clippers forward Corey Maggette as the "family guy" in Common's first verse in the video. Lauren London is also featured as the glamour obsessed female in the first verse. In the "underground hang-out scenes" Golden State Warriors guard Baron Davis is seen. On December 31, 2007, the video appeared at number 99 on BET's Notarized: Top 100 Videos of 2007.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] UK CD single

1. "Drivin' Me Wild" (featuring Lily Allen)
2. "Testify"
3. "Stop" (Erasure cover version)

[edit] Charts

Chart (2007)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart[1]	56
Polish Singles Chart[2]	68
U.S. Billboard Hot Videoclip Tracks[3]	15

[edit] Pop culture references

• In the first verse of the song it references the video clip "Here It Goes Again" by the band OK Go saying: "Be on the treadmill, uh, like "Okay, go".
• Common makes reference to the mentally unstable "astronaut lady," Lisa Nowak.^{[citation needed]}
• Common also makes references to many celebrity ex-couples like Kimora and Russel Simmons, Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, and Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe.
• Common makes a reference to Michael Jordan as he says 'He wanted to be Mike but he was never live at sports'.
• Common makes a reference to Kanye West making a reference to Rich Boy when he says "she had some d's on her but they weren't fake though". Rich Boy made song about throwing d's on a car. Kanye remixed the song saying to throw the d's on a woman.

[edit] References

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