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Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). ^ "The ARIA Report, Week Commencing 25 August 2003, Chart #1297" (PDF).The Flipmode Squad – I Know What You Want". ^ "Busta Rhymes Reunites With Mariah Carey on 'Where I Belong '"."Trippie Redd Taps Busta Rhymes for "I Got You "". ^ Espinoza, Joshua (September 11, 2020).^ Mariah Carey official top 20 biggest-selling songs in the UK MTV.^ "Busta Rhymes – It Ain't Safe No More – Music".^ "Busta Rhymes & Mariah Carey Continue 2003 Plotline for 'Where I Belong' Video".Archived from the original on June 17, 2020. ^ a b "I Know What You Want (2003) | DREAM13 Media".List of Romanian Top 100 number ones of the 2000s.Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. * Sales figures based on certification alone. "Call the Ambulance" (featuring Rampage)Ĭharts Weekly charts Chart (2003)."Call the Ambulance" (Remix featuring M.O.P."I Know What You Want" (Instrumental Radio Edit).Some of the music video is used in Busta Rhymes new music video "Where I Belong". The video premiered on BET Access Granted on April 17, 2003. A brief animated sequence drawn from the graphic novel is featured. Her husband in the video is played by martial artist and actor Michael Jai White. 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. The footage advertises Carey's jewelry brand, "Automatic Princess", during her sequences. The single's music video, directed by Chris Robinson, features Busta Rhymes, the Flipmode Squad, and Carey lounging around an expensive mansion as they debate whether they "know what they want". The song has been sampled in the song "I Got You" by Trippie Redd (2020) and "Where I Belong", the 2021 follow up duet by Rhymes and Carey. The song has sold 175,000 copies in the UK. 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". editor Dalton Higgins wrote that in this duet Busta "croons". In Billboard, Brian Garrity wrote that on "I Know What You Want," Busta Rhymes "takes an R&B turn". 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. 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).
For Carey, it was a return to form after a string of unsuccessful singles, and it became one of her biggest hits in years. "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. Rhymes' previous single, "Make It Clap," had failed to reach the top forty on the U.S. Released as the second single from It Ain't Safe No More on March 17, 2003, it was a hit across the world, peaking at number 3 in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. It also includes a rap from Rhymes' group, the Flipmode Squad: Spliff Star, Baby Sham, Rah Digga, and Rampage.
The song is a duet with American singer Mariah Carey, and was co-written by Rah Digga, Rampage, Rick Rock and Spliff Star. " I Know What You Want" is a song written by American rapper Busta Rhymes, and produced by Rick Rock for Rhymes' sixth album It Ain't Safe No More., released on November 26, 2002.