"I Wanna Fuck You", ("I Wanna Love You" in the edited version) is the second single by Akon and featuring Snoop Dogg, from his second album Konvicted. It is also featured on Snoop Dogg's eighth album, Tha Blue Carpet Treatment. This song is Akon's first #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 and is also Snoop's second #1 on the same chart. The song also reached a peak of #3 on the UK singles chart. In the edited version of the song, the word "fuck" is replaced with "love", and a line in the chorus is rewritten. The song was originally made by Plies, an up and coming rapper from Ft. Myers, Florida, but his verse was replaced by Snoop's for reasons explained below. Even his name has been left out from the writers' credits.
The video was directed by Benny Boom and premiered on BET's 106 & Park on November 17, 2006.
It was performed live at the 2006 American Music Awards.
This song was #88 on MTV Asia 's list of Top 100 Hits of 2007.
The song was nominated for the Grammy Award given to the Best Rap/Sung Collaboration in the 50th Grammy Awards of 2008.
