"I Know What You Want"
Single by Busta Rhymes and Mariah Carey featuring Flipmode Squad
from the album It Ain't Safe No More... and The Remixes
ReleasedFebruary 24, 2003 (2003-02-24)
Recorded2002
StudioSoundtrack Studios (New York City, New York)
Genre
Length5:24
4:12 (edit)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Rick Rock
Busta Rhymes singles chronology
"Make It Clap"
(2002/2003) 		"I Know What You Want"
(2003) 		"Light Your Ass on Fire"
(2003)
Mariah Carey singles chronology
"Boy (I Need You)"
(2002) 		"I Know What You Want"
(2003) 		"Bringin' On the Heartbreak"
(2003)
Music video
"I Know What You Want" on YouTube

"I Know What You Want" is a song by American rapper Busta Rhymes and singer Mariah Carey, featuring verses from Rhymes' group Flipmode Squad: Spliff Star, Baby Sham, Rah Digga, and Rampage. Produced by Rick Rock, it was released on February 24, 2003 as the second single from Rhymes' sixth album It Ain't Safe No More..., released on November 26, 2002.[1][2][3]

The song was a hit across the world, peaking at number 3 in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Rhymes' previous single, "Make It Clap," had failed to reach the top forty on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. "I Know What You Want" stayed in the top forty for twenty-one weeks, and was ranked 17 on the Hot 100 2003 year-end chart. For Carey, it was a return to form after a string of unsuccessful singles, and it became one of her biggest hits in years. Columbia Records later included it on her first remix album The Remixes (2003) and the British and Japanese reissues of Carey's ninth studio album Charmbracelet (2002).

The plotline for the video for "I Know What You Want" was continued in the video for the 2021 single "Where I Belong", in which Rhymes collaborated again with Carey.[4]

Critical reception

In Billboard, Brian Garrity wrote that on "I Know What You Want," Busta Rhymes "takes an R&B turn".[1]

Commercial performance

The song charted at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 making it Rhymes' highest charting song at the time until 2005 and Carey's then most-recent top five hit since her 2001 single, "Loverboy".[5] The song has sold 175,000 copies in the UK.[6]

Sampling

The song has been sampled in the song "I Got You" by Trippie Redd. Also this song has been sampled by G-Unit in a song called "Baby if you get on your knees" [7] [8] (2020) and "Where I Belong", the 2021 follow up duet by Rhymes and Carey.[9]

Music video

The music video was directed by Chris Robinson. It features Busta Rhymes, the Flipmode Squad, and Carey lounging around an expensive mansion as they debate whether they "know what they want". During Carey's appearance, her jewelry brand "Automatic Princess" was advertised. Meanwhile, Busta watches over the female interest of the video played by video vixen La'Shontae "Tae" Heckard, as she reads a Frank Miller-stylized graphic novel. Her husband in the video is played by martial artist and actor Michael Jai White. A brief animated sequence drawn from the graphic novel is featured. The video premiered on BET Access Granted on April 17, 2003. Some of the music video is used in Busta Rhymes' new music video "Where I Belong".

Formats and track listings

Canadian CD single

  1. "I Know What You Want" (Radio Edit)
  2. "I Know What You Want" (Instrumental Radio Edit)

European CD single

  1. "I Know What You Want" (Album Version)
  2. "Break Ya Neck"

Australian/European CD maxi-single

  1. "I Know What You Want" (Album Version)
  2. "Break Ya Neck"
  3. "I Know What You Want" (Instrumental)
  4. "I Know What You Want" (Video)

UK CD maxi-single

  1. "I Know What You Want"
  2. "Call the Ambulance" (Remix featuring M.O.P. & Rah Digga)
  3. "Call the Ambulance" (featuring Rampage)
  4. "I Know What You Want" (Video)

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[62] Platinum 70,000‡
Italy (FIMI)[63] Gold 50,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ)[64] Gold 5,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[65] Gold 400,000‡
United States (RIAA)[66] Platinum 1,000,000‡

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release dates and formats
Region Date Format Label(s) Ref.
United States February 24, 2003 Rhythmic contemporary radio
[67]
Urban contemporary radio J
March 31, 2003 Contemporary hit radio [68]
Belgium May 14, 2003
  • CD
  • maxi CD
 [69]
United Kingdom May 26, 2003
Arista [70]
Australia June 9, 2003 CD BMG [71]

See also

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