How Do U Want It

Single infobox |
Name = How Do U Want It


Artist = 2Pac featuring K-Ci & JoJo
from Album = All Eyez on Me
Released = June 4, 1996
Format = 12-inch single
Recorded = 1995
Genre = West Coast hip hop
Length = 4:47
Label = Death Row
Writer = Tupac Shakur
Johnny Jackson
Bruce Fisher
Leon Ware
Stanley Richardson
Quincy Jones
Producer = Johnny "J"
Certification = Gold
Chart position = "For further chart performance and certifications see California Love"
Reviews =
Chronology = 2Pac
Last single =
"2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted"
(1996)
This single = "How Do
U Want It"
(1996)
Next single =
"Hit 'Em Up"
(1996)
Misc = Extra chronology
Artist = K-Ci and Jojo
Background = khaki
Last album = "If You Think You're Lonely Now"
(1994)
This album = "How Do You Want It"
(1996)
Next album = "How Could You"
(1996)

"How Do U Want It" is a song of 2Pac featuring K-Ci and JoJo and was the third single from his album "All Eyez on Me" and just as "California Love" was a big success, reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and giving him his only chart-topper. It was on the B-side of the single "California Love/How Do You Want It". In the UK, the song was released in its own right, as the second single from "All Eyez On Me", peaking at #17.

It samples Quincy Jones's "Body Heat" from his 1974 album "Body Heat"

The song includes a diss of noted gangsta rap critic C. Delores Tucker.

The music video

There were three videos filmed for this song: two in the same set for the single in April 1996 directed by Ron Hightower and produced by Tracy D. Robinson. These two are distinguished by MPAA rating (one is certified adult material). The video portrays awild sex party with jacuzzi, mechanical bull riding, cage dancing and pole stripping. All actors and actresses are dressed in renaissance-age costumes, though all clothes are removed for the nude clip. The limousine segment seen in the clean version is the same except no nudity. The third one is the concert version, basically just them performing on stage((not the House Of Blues live performance)). There are cameo appearances by K-Ci & Jojo both in the concert and studio segments. The X-rated video also features numerous porn stars, including Nina Hartley, Heather Hunter, and Angel Kelly.

Trivia

*Heather Hunter refers to the bull ride with 2Pac photo shoot in her cameo rapping in Esham's song with Kool Keith, "All Night Everyday".
*Originally Tupac sang the vocals, which was later changed to K-Ci & Jojo with Tupac while the final version doesn't feature him on the chorus.cite news
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work = The making of the album All Eyez On Me / interview with Tommy Daugherty
date=October, 2004
accessdate = 2006-06-11]
*Nina Hartley has stated in her own fan forum about her one night partying with Tupac Shakur, which supposedly occurred during the private party held after completing the music video for "How Do U Want It". Nina replied 'Tupac had what it took to be a porn stud, no problem!'cite news
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Number one positions

Albums with the song

*"All Eyez on Me"
*"Greatest Hits"
*"Nu-Mixx Klazzics"
*"2Pac Live"
*""
*"2 PAC-The Prophet Returns"

See also

Hot 100 number-one hits of 1996 (USA)

Notes

References

* [http://www.metrobeat.net/gbase/Expedite/Content?oid=oid%3A3664 interview with Heather Hunter]
* [http://www.mvdbase.com/video.php?id=139 MVDBase entry]
* [http://www.nina.com/vboard/archive/index.php/t-699.html Official Nina Hartley website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/heatherhuntertheunexpecte Heather Hunter MySpace with photos with Tupac]