I Wanna Love You
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| Single by Akon featuring Snoop Dogg from the album Konvicted & Tha Blue Carpet Treatment |
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| Released | September 14, 2006 (US) 2007 (UK/NZ) |
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| Format | Digital download, CD single | |||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2006 | |||||||||||||
| Genre | R&B Hip-Hop Dirty Rap |
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| Length | 4:07 | |||||||||||||
| Label | SRC / Universal / Konvict / UpFront / Geffen / Doggystyle | |||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | C. Broadus Aliaune "Akon" Thiam |
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| Producer | Akon | |||||||||||||
| Certification | 2x Platinum (RIAA) Gold (ARIA) Platinum (RIANZ) |
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"I Wanna **** You", ("I Wanna Love You" in the edited version) is the second single by Akon and featuring Snoop Dogg, from his second album Konvicted. It is also featured on Snoop Dogg's eighth album, Tha Blue Carpet Treatment. This song is Akon's first #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 and is also Snoop's second #1 on the same chart. The song also reached a peak of #3 on the UK singles chart. In the edited version of the song, the word "fuck" is replaced with "love", and a line in the chorus is rewritten, while "pussy" and "nigga" is played backwards, and "dick" and "titties" is blanked out. The song was originally made by Plies, an up and coming rapper from Ft. Myers, Florida, but his verse was replaced by Snoop's for reasons explained below. Even his name has been left out from the writers' credits.
The video was directed by Benny Boom and premiered on BET's 106 & Park on November 17, 2006.
It was performed live at the 2006 American Music Awards.
This song was #88 on MTV Asia's list of Top 100 Hits of 2007.[1]
The song was nominated for the Grammy Award given to the Best Rap/Sung Collaboration in the 50th Grammy Awards of 2008.
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[edit] Song information
Rapper Plies was originally the performer of this song, but Akon replaced his verses to those of Snoop's for commercial reasons: Plies was arrested on July 2, 2006 for illegal gun possession while two of his people were charged with attempted murder after a shooting broke out at 238 West Nightclub in Gainesville, Florida. Plies was performing a concert when he was informed that his show would be cut 15 minutes short in order to give time to Lil' Boosie to perform right after. In response, Plies' entourage started to fire at the crowd resulting in the injury of 5 people with non-life threatening wounds. Shortly after, Plies was released after paying $50,000 bail.[2] He could still continue to promote this song but worried that it would give it bad publicity, and since the version with Snoop already circulated unofficially in the mixtape scene, it was an obvious choice to replace the single and album edit since Snoop Dogg was a name already well received as opposed to that of an up-and-coming and controversial artist. Akon and Snoop Dogg's management also agreed to participate on each other's forthcoming albums.
In an interview with Akon on Hot 97 he said that the song was sent for Trick Daddy but somehow ended up in the hands of Plies. It was said that Plies was not the originator of the song and should have never recorded to that beat in the first place. To make it up, Akon recorded and produced the single, "Hypnotized" for Plies, being featured on it also. This reached #14 on the U.S. Billboard 100 chart.
Samples of the Roland TR-808 drum machine provide the song's bass drum, clap and hi-hat sounds.
[edit] Chart information
| Chart (2006/2007) | Peak position [3] |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 1 |
| U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs | 3 |
| U.S. Pop 100 | 1 |
| U.S. Hot Latin Tracks | 16 |
| UK Official Singles Chart | 3 |
| Bulgarian Airplay Chart | 1 |
| Indonesian Single Top[4] | 7 |
| Ireland Singles Top 50 [5] | 2 |
| Sweden Singles Top 60 | 19 |
| Norway Singles Top 20 | 18 |
| Polish Singles Chart | 17 |
| Switzerland Top 100 | 16 |
| Austria Top 75 | 29 |
| Latvian Airplay Top | 15 |
| United World Chart | 4 |
| Russia TopHit 100 | 34 |
| Czech IFPI Chart | 7[6] |
| Brasil Top 100 [7] | 1 |
| Malta Top 40 [8] | 11 |
| Germany Top 100 | 14 |
| Australia ARIA Singles Chart | 6 |
| Hungary Dance Top 40[9] | 28 |
| Dutch Top 40 | 21 |
| Lithuanian airplay chart[10] | 8 |
| Belgian Top 50 | 16[11] |
| Euro 200 | 2[12] |
| Portugal singles chart | 8[13] |
* Indicates downloads only
** Physical downloads only
| Preceded by "My Love" by Justin Timberlake featuring T.I. |
Billboard Hot 100 number-one single December 2, 2006 - December 9, 2006 |
Succeeded by "Irreplaceable" by Beyoncé |
| Preceded by "Big Girls Don't Cry" by Fergie |
Brazilian Singles Chart number-one single June 18, 2007 |
Succeeded by "Beautiful Liar" by Beyoncé and Shakira |
[edit] Credits
- Written by C. Broadus, A. Thiam
- Produced by Aliaune "Akon" Thiam for Upfront/Konvict
- Publishers: My Own Chit Publishing/EMI Blackwood Music (BMI); Byefall Music/Famous Music Publishing (ASCAP)
- Recorded by Akon and Mark "Exit" Goodchild at Konkast Recording Studios, Atlanta, GA, Patchwerks Studio, Atlanta, Ga, Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles, CA
- Snoop's vocals recorded by Chris Jackson at Tha Cathedral
- Assisted by Rick DeVarona
- Mixed by Leslie Brathwaite at PatchwerksStudio, Atlanta, GA
- Assisted by Kori Andrews.
[edit] References
- ^ MTV Asia. "Top 100 Hits List". Retrieved 2007-12-27
- ^ Tiffany Pakkala. "The Gainesville Sun", Fan offers account of shooting at rap show, The Gainesville Sun, 2006-07-04. Retrieved on 2007-01-27.
- ^ Akon's I Wanna Love You: Chart Positions. Retrieved on May 06, 2007.
- ^ Official Indonesian Single Top
- ^ >> IRMA << Irish Charts - Singles, Albums & Compilations >>
- ^ Czech Republic - Top Singles Chart
- ^ Hot 100 Singles
- ^ http://www.bay.com.mt/page.asp?p=16085&l=1
- ^ mahasz.hu - Slágerlisták
- ^ Lithuanian Airplay Chart
- ^ http://entertainment.skynet.be/index.html?l1=entertainment&l2=ultratop&l3=charts&chartid=4&new_lang=fr
- ^ apcchart.com
- ^ Planet - 404 pagina
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