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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 2006 (2007 - UK and NZ) | |||||||||||||
| Format | Digital download, CD single | |||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2006 | |||||||||||||
| Genre | Hip-Hop Contemporary R&B |
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| Length | 4:07 | |||||||||||||
| Label | SRC / Universal / Konvict / UpFront / Geffen / Doggystyle | |||||||||||||
| Writer | C. Broadus Aliaune "Akon" Thiam |
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| Producer | Akon | |||||||||||||
| Certification | Platinum (RIAA) Gold (ARIA) Platinum (RIANZ) |
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"I Wanna Love You", ("I Wanna Fuck You" in the unedited 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 censored version of the song they substitute the word "fuck" with "love". The song was originally made by Plies, an up and coming rapper from Ft.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.[citation needed] Even his name has been left out from the writers' credits.
It is also the name of a song by The Ponys.
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]
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Rapper Plies was originally the performer of this song, but Snoop and Akon replaced his verses 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 $10,000 bail. Thus he could continue to promote but it would give the single 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. Another track, "Boss' Life", is featured on Tha Blue Carpet Treatment as well as "I Wanna Fuck You" as it achieved unexpected sudden success, reaching the 17th spot on the Billboard Hot 100 without a promotional video or physical CD release, and then topping the chart for two consecutive weeks.
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.
Samples of the Roland TR-808 drum machine provide the song's bass drum, clap and hi-hat sounds.
When this song was under the censored name of "I Wanna Love U", the title was self-explanatory; though interestingly, the song has a similar theme to T-Pain's hit "I'm N Luv (Wit a Stripper)". The song centers around the song's character who is in a strip bar and notices a particular stripper doing her routine. They notice each other and strong feelings of wanting to engage in sex (on behalf of the song's character) arise. This is evident in the song's chorus line, which is "I wanna love you".
The song's name and topic garnered controversy, hence the name change (though the name is not changed for Snoop Dogg's album). The lyrics and the overall topic remains the same, only slightly altered so that it allows for the song to be played on radio/television, reaching a wider and younger audience. Words like "pussy" and "nigga(s)" were part of the lyrics, which were censored in the clean version (usually by reversing the words instead of blanking them out, or playing a key over the words).
In addition, "...up on that pole" is changed to "...up on the floor".
| Chart (2006/2007) | Peak position [2] |
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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 |
| Ireland Singles Top 50 [3] | 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 |
| Philippine Top Hits | 10 |
| United World Chart | 6 |
| Russia TopHit 100 | 34 |
| Czech IFPI Chart | 7[4] |
| Brasil Top 100 [5] | 1 |
| Malta Top 40 [6] | 11 |
| Germany Top 100 | 14 |
| Australia ARIA Singles Chart | 6 |
| Hungary Dance Top 40[7] | 28 |
| Dutch Top 40 | 21 |
| Lithuanian airplay chart[8] | 8 |
| Belgian Top 50 | 16[9] |
| Euro 200 | 2[10] |
| Portugal singles chart | 8[11] |
* 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 |
- 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.
- ^ MTV Asia. "Top 100 Hits List". Retrieved 2007-12-27
- ^ Akon's I Wanna Love You: Chart Positions. Retrieved on May 06, 2007.
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- ^ http://www.mahasz.hu/m/?menu=slagerlistak&menu2=archivum
- ^ http://www.blogas.lt/hitfm/205871/lithuania-airplay-chart.html
- ^ http://entertainment.skynet.be/index.html?l1=entertainment&l2=ultratop&l3=charts&chartid=4&new_lang=fr
- ^ http://www.apcchart.com/
- ^ http://home.planet.nl/~laar2337/apc2/Hitlijsten/EU-nation.htm/
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| Albums | Trouble · Konvicted |
| Singles | "Locked Up" · "Ghetto" · "Lonely" · "Belly Dancer (Bananza)" · "Pot of Gold" · "Smack That" · "I Wanna Love You" · "Don't Matter" · "Mama Africa" · "Sorry, Blame It on Me" · "Never Took the Time" |
| Related articles | Discography · Konvict Muzik |
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| Albums | Doggystyle · Tha Doggfather · Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told · No Limit Top Dogg · Tha Last Meal · Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss · R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece · Tha Blue Carpet Treatment · Ego Trippin' |
| Singles | "Who Am I (What's My Name)?" · "Gin and Juice" · "Doggy Dogg World" · "Snoop's Upside Ya Head" · "Vapors" · "Doggfather" · "We Just Wanna Party with You" · "Still a G Thang" · "Bitch Please" · "Snoop Dogg (What's My Name II)" · "From tha Chuuuch to da Palace" · "Beautiful" · "Drop It Like It's Hot" · "Let's Get Blown" · "Signs" · "Ups & Downs" · "Real Soon" · "Vato" · "That's That" · "I Wanna Fuck You" · "Candy (Drippin' Like Water)" · "Boss' Life" · "Sexual Eruption" |
| Related articles | Discography · 213 · Tha Eastsidaz · Doggystyle Records · Filmography |