I Deserve It
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| Single by Faith Evans featuring Missy Elliott and Sharaya J | ||||
| from the album Incomparable | ||||
| Released | June 25, 2014 | |||
| Format | Digital download | |||
| Recorded | 2013–2014 | |||
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| Label | Prolific Music, BMG Rights Management | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Faith Evans, Carl Thompson, Andre Johnson, Chyna Griffin, Toni Coleman, Achaia Dixon, Melissa Elliott, Sharaya Howell, Nina Simone, Weldon Irvine | |||
| Producer(s) | Chucky Thompson, Andre "AJ" Johnson, Faith Evans | |||
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"I Deserve It" is the lead single by American R&B singer Faith Evans, featuring female hip-hop recording artists Missy Elliott and her protégé Sharaya J, from Evans' sixth studio album, Incomparable (2014). The song was released via Evans' official SoundCloud account on June 25, 2014, and went on to be officially released in Russia and North America via iTunes on August 25, 2014. This marks the second time that both Evans and Elliott appear on a release together, the first being Evans' remixed single "Burnin' Up" in 2002.
On August 6, 2013, Faith Evans confirmed in an interview with Studio Q that Missy Elliott would be one of the guest appearances on her sixth album Incomparable. In February 2014, Elliott herself confirmed that she would be featured on Evans' album. On March 14, 2014, Evans added that Elliott had contributed three tracks for the project and noted that one of them ("I Deserve It") happened to be "the last song on [the] album" that she recorded vocals for. Evans also added that "I Deserve It" would feature Elliott's protégée Sharaya J and "declared" the song as a "perfect embodiment of being able to still maintain what people know you for and the era that you’re from — but not sound dated."
Elaborating further on Missy Elliott's contribution to the single, Faith Evans disclosed: "When I first sent Missy [Elliott] the record, she was like, 'I don't know how to attack it,' and I'm like 'Girl bye' [...] Like, Missy do what you do. But she tried two other songs and went back to that one like, 'I like this one'." On June 15, 2014, Evans began a ten-day countdown for the single via her official Instagram account, and confirmed that the record would be released on June 25, 2014.
"I Deserve It" is a summertime R&B ladies' feel-good anthem that features "a piano and horn-driven beat", which samples Aretha Franklin's 1972 recording, "To Be Young, Gifted and Black". The song narrates Evans' praise of herself as she "vows not to settle when it comes to a man." Prior to the song's release, interviewers asked if the production to "I Deserve It" would be set in a mid-tempo or up-tempo style; Faith Evans replied that the song would be a "banger" and a "feel good" record.
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