I Wanna Love You

:"For the Nine Inch Nails song, see Closer (Nine Inch Nails song)"Infobox Single
Name = I Wanna Love You


Artist = Akon featuring Snoop Dogg
from Album = Konvicted & Tha Blue Carpet Treatment
B-side =
Released = September 14, 2006 (US)
2007 (UK/NZ)
Format = Digital download, CD single
Recorded = 2006
Genre = R&B
Hip-Hop
Dirty Rap
Length = 4:07
Label = SRC / Universal / Konvict / UpFront / Geffen / Doggystyle
Writer = C. Broadus
Aliaune "Akon" Thiam
Producer = Akon
Certification = 2x Platinum (RIAA)
Gold (ARIA)
Platinum (RIANZ)
Chronology = Akon singles
Last single = "I Am Not My Hair"
(2006)
This single = "I Wanna Love You"
(2006)
Next single = "The Sweet Escape"
(2007)Extra chronology 2
Artist = Snoop Dogg singles
Type = singles
Last single = "That's That"
(2006)
This single = "I Wanna Love You"
(2006)
Next single = "Candy (Drippin' like Water)"
(2006)

"I Wanna Love 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 The song was originally made by Plies, an up and coming rapper from Ft.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. [MTV Asia. [http://www.mtvasia.com/Funstuff/Contests/MTVTop100Hits2007/top100.html "Top 100 Hits List"] . Retrieved 2007-12-27]

The song was nominated for the Grammy Award given to the Best Rap/Sung Collaboration in the 50th Grammy Awards of 2008.

ong 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.cite news
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] 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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m36P8XUkDYY]

Chart information

* Indicates downloads only
** Physical downloads only

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.

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