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"I Wanna Love You" is the second single by Akon and featuring Snoop Dogg, from his sophomore album Konvicted. It is also featured on Snoop Dogg's eigth 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. In the censored version of the song they substitute the phrase "fuck you" with "love you". The was song originally made by an up and coming rapper from Ft. Myers, Florida, Plies, 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. This song is unique in the fact that it currently occupies both the #1 and #7 spaces on iTunes, thanks to multiple releases of the song.
It was performed live at the 2006 American Music Awards.
Song information
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Plies was originally the creator 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 top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 without a promotional video or official CD release.
Song meaning
When this song was under the original name of "I Wanna Fuck 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. Of course, they notice each other and assumingly strong feelings of wanting to engage in sex (on behalf of the song's character) arises. Of course, this is evident in the song's chorus line, which of course is "I wanna fuck you".
While most rap/urban songs that feature sex and a female are typically displayed as "hook ups" or "one night stands", this song is somewhat different than traditional rap songs. In the fourth verse, Akon sings "You've got the type of phatty the type I'd like to marry, wantin to give you everything and it's kinda scary", which implicates that Akon's song character is in fact serious of having a serious relationship with the stripper.
Interestingly to notice, when one assesses the lyrics they would notice that Akon is singing the serious side of the song and how the song's character is strongly in love with this one girl, whereas Snoop takes on the sexual and explicit side of the song.
Of course, the song's name and topic garnered controversy, hence the name change of the song. 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.
Chart information
| Chart (2006/2007) | Peak Position [1] |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 1 |
| U.S. Hot Digital Songs | 1 |
| U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs | 3 |
| U.S. Pop 100 | 1 |
| U.S. Rhythmic Top 40 | 1 |
| U.S. Hot Latin Tracks | 16 |
| UK Official Singles Chart | 16 |
| Ireland Singles Top 50 | 23 |
| Sweden Singles Top 60 | 19 |
| Norway Singles Top 20 | 18 |
| Polish Singles Chart | 64 |
| United World Chart | 7 |
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 Cahtedral
- Assisted by Rick DeVarona
- Mixed by Leslie Brathwaite at PatchwerksStudio, Atlanta, GA
- Assisted by Kori Andrews.
External links
References
- ^ "Akon's I Wanna Love You: Chart Positions". Retrieved November 24.
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