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==Release and reception==
"I'm In It" was included as the sixth track on West's sixth studio album, ''Yeezus'', released on June 18, 2013, through his labels [[Def Jam Recordings|Def Jam]] and [[Roc-A-Fella Records|Roc-A-Fella]].<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web|last=Jeffries|first=David|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/yeezus-mw0002554883|title=''Yeezus'' – Kanye West|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=June 19, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130621043546/http://www.allmusic.com/album/yeezus-mw0002554883|archive-date=June 21, 2013|df=mdy-all}}</ref> The song was met with polarized reviews from [[Music journalism|music critics]], with split asessments of the sexual content. Ryan Reed from ''[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]'' identified West and Vernon as the album's best collaboration, labeling the song a "disturbing sex rap" backed by snares as West references Kardashian's breasts and goes "for condoms like a ninja".<ref name="Paste"/> Writing for [[AllMusic]], David Jeffries was taken aback by the song's "punkish, irresponsible blast-femy" as West articulates his dreams at his loudest during the sexual lyrics.<ref name="allmusic"/> The staff of [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']] noted that West "mangles his voice and flips to beast mode" for the content, beginning at a slow pace and transitioning into "a dancehall romp".<ref name="Billboard">{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/review/1567053/kanye-west-yeezus-track-by-track-review | title=Kanye West, 'Yeezus': Track-by-Track review | magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] | date=June 14, 2013 | access-date=June 23, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180624122000/https://www.billboard.com/articles/review/1567053/kanye-west-yeezus-track-by-track-review | archive-date=June 24, 2018 | url-status=live }}</ref> Ryan Dombal of ''Pitchfork'' noted the song's heavy explicitness and that it sounds like "a dancehall orgasm mired in quicksand", making West's similar songs such as "[[Slow Jamz]]" (2003) seem like [[Disney]] theme songs, while he considered the sweet and sour line to come across as oafishness.<ref name="Dombal">{{cite web | first=Dombal | last=Ryan | url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18172-kanye-west-yeezus/ | title=Kanye West: ''Yeezus'' Album Review | website=Pitchfork | date=June 18, 2013 | access-date=September 20, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180920195431/https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18172-kanye-west-yeezus/ | archive-date=September 20, 2018 | url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[HipHopDX]]'' reviewer Justin Hunte thought that the song's club-appropriate sexual lyrics, reggae influences, and "Swag-hili" line make it "quickly embed itself Indian-style into the eardrum".<ref name="HipHopDx"/> Jon Dolan of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' wrote that the song resembles the soundtrack of "a [[snuff film]] for [[Cylons]]" and said that in the lyrics, West "sounds at once righteous and evil".<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Dolan |first1=Jon |title=Kanye West, 'Yeezus' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/yeezus-94536/ |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |url-access=limited |access-date=June 16, 2019 |date=June 14, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210202622/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/yeezus-94536/ |archive-date=December 10, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> At ''[[PopMatters]]'', David Amidon was interested in certain lyrics from West and found imagining him
Providing a less enthusiastic review for ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[Jon Pareles]] stated that West enacts the black stereotype of "the insatiable superstud, callous and lewd", who uses women for sexual means.<ref name="nytreview">{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/arts/music/yeezus-kanye-wests-raw-and-jolting-new-album.html| title=A Fighter Returns With Angrier Air Punches| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| url-access=registration| date=June 16, 2013| access-date=August 9, 2024| last=Pareles| first=Jon| author-link=Jon Pareles| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130618023159/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/arts/music/yeezus-kanye-wests-raw-and-jolting-new-album.html| archive-date=June 18, 2013| df=mdy-all}}</ref> He noted that West adds "a little blasphemy" for a reaction, despite not seeing any achievement in being smarter than "hip-hop's many other raunchmongers".<ref name="nytreview"/> In the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', Randall Roberts was both surprised and impressed with West's reference to King's speech, although expressed that the song "could be called bawdy were it not so lyrically dark".<ref name="Lat"/> In a mixed review, Jesal "Jay Soul" Padania from ''RapReviews'' felt that the "quick-quick-slow dancefloor fuck song" is highly explicit to varying levels of success, criticizing how West's [[misogyny]] resembles fellow rapper [[Lil Wayne]]'s ''[[I Am Not a Human Being II]]'' (2013).<ref name="rreviews"/> Forrest Cardamenis of ''No Ripcord'' wrote off West's mixed messaging with his "racially-charged lyrics" as he sexually references King's speech and a
Upon the release of the album, "I'm in It" debuted at number 17 on the US ''Billboard'' [[Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles|Bubbling Under Hot 100]].<ref name="Bubbling"/> It also entered the US [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs]] chart at number 43.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/r-b-hip-hop-songs/2013-07-06|title=Top Hip-Hop Songs / R&B Songs Chart – July 6, 2013|magazine=Billboard|access-date=December 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210003712/https://www.billboard.com/charts/r-b-hip-hop-songs/2013-07-06|archive-date=December 10, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
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