I Wanna Sex You Up

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"I Wanna Sex You Up"
Single by Color Me Badd
from the album C.M.B. and New Jack City soundtrack
Released	May 27, 1991
Format	7" single, 12" maxi, CD maxi, Cassette
Genre	R&B
Length	4:03
Label	Giant Records
Writer(s)	Dr. Freeze
Producer	Dr. Freeze
Color Me Badd singles chronology
- "I Wanna Sex You Up" (1991) "I Adore Mi Amor" (1991)

"I Wanna Sex You Up" is a hit single for R&B group Color Me Badd in 1991, released as the first single from their debut album C.M.B.. It achieved a huge success in the U.S., UK and New Zealand, where it reached #1 on the charts.

Contents 1 Song information 2 Track listings 3 Certifications 4 Credits 5 Charts 6 References

[edit] Song information

The song spent three weeks at number 1 on the UK Singles Chart and reached number 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It was the 10th best-selling single of 1991 in the UK. An alternate version also appeared on the New Jack City soundtrack, and in 1992 the song won the group a Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single, Group, Band or Duo and Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Song of the Year. The "to the tick tock ya don't stop" soundbite is sampled from Slick Rick's "La Di Da Di." The bassline and the "I know you not gonna sing that song!" soundbite are sampled from Betty Wright's "Tonight is the Night." The song was also ranked at #40 on Blender's list of the "50 Worst Songs Ever"^[1] and VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the 90s".

Radio stations edited the word "sex" out of the song, so disc jockeys refer to the song as "I Wanna Love You Up".^{[citation needed]}

A sample of "I Wanna Sex You Up" has been used in a song called "Tick Tock" by Lemar.^[2]

The song can be heard in an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and in the films New Jack City, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, and Nothing Like the Holidays.

[edit] Track listings

7" single

1. "I Wanna Sex You Up" (master mix) — 4:05
2. "I Wanna Sex You Up" (smoothed out mix) — 3:38

12" maxi

1. "I Wanna Sex You Up" (smoothed out mix) — 3:38
2. "I Wanna Sex You Up" (smoothed out - long version) — 5:13
3. "I Wanna Sex You Up" (instrumental) — 4:04
4. "I Wanna Sex You Up" (master mix) — 4:05
5. "I Wanna Sex You Up" (freeze mix) — 4:06

CD maxi

1. "I Wanna Sex You Up" (smoothed out mix) — 3:39
2. "I Wanna Sex You Up" (smoothed out mix - long version) — 5:14
3. "I Wanna Sex You Up" (Instrumental) — 4:04
4. "I Wanna Sex You Up" (master mix) — 4:05
5. "I Wanna Sex You Up" (freeze mix) — 4:07

Cassette

1. "I Wanna Sex You Up" (master mix)
2. "I Wanna Sex You Up" (smoothed out mix)
3. "I Wanna Sex You Up" (master mix)
4. "I Wanna Sex You Up" (smoothed out mix)

[edit] Certifications

Country	Certification	Date	Sales certified
UK[3]	Silver	June 1, 1991	200,000
U.S.[4]	2x Platinum	June 27, 1991	2,000,000+

[edit] Credits

• Co-producer : Howie Tee , Spyderman
• Engineer : Angela Piva, Warren Woods
• Mastered by Eddy Schreyer
• Mixed by Dr. Freeze, Howie Tee
• Producer : Dr. Freeze

[edit] Charts

Chart (1991) Peak position Australian ARIA Singles Chart[5] 4 Austrian Singles Chart[5] 11 French SNEP Singles Chart[5] 20 German Singles Chart[6] 4 Irish Singles Chart[7] 9 New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart 1 Norwegian Singles Chart[5] 5 Swedish Singles Chart[5] 5 Swiss Singles Chart[5] 7 UK Singles Chart[8] 1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100[9] 2 U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales[9] 1 U.S. Billboard Hot R&B Songs[9] 1

End of year chart (1991) Position Australian Singles Chart[10] 21

Preceded by "Kissing You" by Keith Washington	Billboard's Hot R&B Singles number one single June 1, 1991 - June 8, 1991 (2 weeks)	Succeeded by "Power of Love/Love Power" by Luther Vandross
Preceded by "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" by Cher	UK number-one single June 8, 1991 - June 22, 1991 (3 weeks)	Succeeded by "Any Dream Will Do" by Jason Donovan
Preceded by "More than Words" by Extreme	New Zealand RIANZ number one single July 12, 1991 - July 19, 1991 (2 weeks)	Succeeded by "More than Words" by Extreme

[edit] References