You Make Me Wanna...

"You Make Me Wanna..."
Standard release
Single by Usher
from the album My Way
ReleasedAugust 5, 1997
Recorded1996
StudioKrosswire (Atlanta, Georgia)
Genre
Length
  • 3:39
  • 5:20 (extended version)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Jermaine Dupri
Usher singles chronology
"The Many Ways"
(1995)
"You Make Me Wanna..."
(1997)
"Nice & Slow"
(1998)
Music video
"You Make Me Wanna..." on YouTube

"You Make Me Wanna..." is a song by American singer Usher. This track was released on August 5, 1997, by LaFace Records and Arista Records as the lead single from his second studio album, My Way (1997). He and Manuel Seal wrote the song with its producer Jermaine Dupri.. An R&B, soul and pop song in C minor, it makes use of acoustic guitar, hi-hat and bell instrumentation. The lyrics focus on a love triangle relationship, with the protagonist wishing to leave his girlfriend for his erstwhile best friend, with a hook in which Usher states, "You make me wanna leave the one I'm with and start a new relationship with you". "You Make Me Wanna..." won a Billboard Music Award, a Soul Train Music Award, and a WQHT Hip Hop Award, and was nominated for a Grammy Award.

The song charted at number one in the United Kingdom along with the top 10 in Australia, Croatia, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United States as well as the top 20 in Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, and Switzerland. An accompanying music video, directed by Bille Woodruff, shows Usher dancing in various colored rooms and backgrounds, and uses an effect which creates several clones of Usher.