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I Wanna Love You (Akon song)

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"I Wanna Love You"
Song

"I Wanna Love You" (explicitly titled "I Wanna Fuck You") 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 The song was originally made by Plies, an up and coming rapper from Ft.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.

Background

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 [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.

The song was covered in 2007 by CocoRosie[3]. Their version of the song is written from the perspective of the pole dancer, who is described as a victim of childhood sexual abuse and her own drug addiction, (and implicitly, of all the men who are only interested in her as a sexual object).

Remixes

  • Although not included in the original version, Plies made a remix of the song. It is 6 minutes long.
  • There is a highly explicit remix featuring Trina, with one verse from the rapper above.
  • Portuguese rapper Boss AC, made a remix and a video for this song.
  • Reggae artist Sean Paul, was featured in a clean remix.
  • The Official Remix features Tego Calderon.
  • Don Omar and Cynthia made a re-remix to the official remix featuring Tego Calderon.
  • Also there's a female perspective of the song, with Nivea and Rasheeda, with a slightly different beat.
  • The Maine (band), a punk pop band, did a cover of this song on the rap cover album Punk Goes Crunk.

Chart information

Chart (2006/2007) Peak
position [4]
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 1
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs 4
U.S. Billboard Pop 100 1
UK Singles Chart 3
Ireland Singles Top 50 [5] 1
Sweden Singles Top 60 10
Norway Singles Top 20 7
Switzerland Top 100 4
Austria Top 75 22
Russia TopHit 100 32
New Zealand Singles Chart 2[6]
Czech IFPI Chart 5[7]
Germany Top 100 7
Australia ARIA Singles Chart 6[8]
Hungary Dance Top 40[9] 20
Dutch Top 40 11
Belgian Top 50 9[10]

* Indicates downloads only
** Physical downloads only

Certifications

Country Certification Sales
Australia Gold[11] 35,000+[12]
New Zealand Platinum[13] 15,000+[14]
United States 2x Platinum[15] 2,000,000+[16]


Preceded by Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
December 2, 2006 - December 9, 2006 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Billboard Pop 100 number-one single
December 2, 2006 		Succeeded by
"Smack That" by Akon featuring Eminem

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.

References

  1. ^ MTV Asia. "Top 100 Hits List". Retrieved 2007-12-27
  2. ^ {{ | title=The Gainesville Sun | publisher=The Gainesville Sun | author=Tiffany Pakkala | url = http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060704/LOCAL/207040317/1078/APN | work = Fan offers account of shooting at rap show | date=2006-07-04 | accessdate = 2007-01-27 }}
  3. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m36P8XUkDYY
  4. ^ "Akon's I Wanna Love You: Chart Positions". Retrieved May 06. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ >> IRMA << Irish Charts - Singles, Albums & Compilations >>
  6. ^ http://charts.org.nz/showitem.asp?interpret=Akon+feat%2E+Snoop+Dogg&titel=I+Wanna+Love+You&cat=s
  7. ^ Czech Republic - Top Singles Chart
  8. ^ http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?key=255433&cat=s
  9. ^ mahasz.hu - Slágerlisták
  10. ^ http://entertainment.skynet.be/index.html?l1=entertainment&l2=ultratop&l3=charts&chartid=4&new_lang=fr
  11. ^ http://aria.com.au/pages/httpwww.aria.com.aupagesARIACharts-Accreditations-2007Singles.htm
  12. ^ http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-accreditations.htm
  13. ^ New Zealand Singles Chart Look at #1566 Monday 28 May 2007
  14. ^ New Zealand Chart facts
  15. ^ http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS
  16. ^ http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/35620/week-ending-june-14-2009-america-eats-its-peas/


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