Only Wanna Give It to You
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| Single by Elle Varner featuring J. Cole | |||||||||||||||||
| from the album Perfectly Imperfect | |||||||||||||||||
| Released | August 16, 2011 | ||||||||||||||||
| Format | Digital download | ||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2011 | ||||||||||||||||
| Genre | R&B, neo soul, hip hop soul | ||||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:58 | ||||||||||||||||
| Label | J | ||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Elle Varner, Jermaine Lamarr Cole, Andrew "Pop" Wansel, Warren "Oak" Felder, Frankie Storm | ||||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Pop & Oak | ||||||||||||||||
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"Only Wanna Give It to You" is a song by American singer-songwriter and R&B recording artist Elle Varner, released on August 16, 2011 as a digital download. It serves as her debut single and the lead single from her debut studio album, Perfectly Imperfect (2012). The song features American rapper J. Cole and was produced by Oak & Pop. The Elle Varner song was released and her only single with J Records prior to RCA Records before closing down the label.
On October 4, 2011, Varner appeared on BET's 106 & Park to premier the video for "Only Wanna Give It to You". While she was there she was asked how the J. Cole collaboration came to be, she explained: "We actually met in college. He went to St. John's and we had a mutual friend at my school and like two years later I saw him in the Sony building when I had just got signed and I bumped into him I was like 'Yo what's up what are you doing here?' and he's like 'Yo I just signed with Roc Nation' and I"m like 'Yo I just signed with J. Records… When it came time to do the lead single for my album he was the first person I thought of."
DJBooth.net compared the song to Mary J. Blige and Method Man's 1995 hit "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By". They give praise to the Oak & Pop heavily influenced beat and Varner's vocals stating "Varner puts her distinctly unique voice on full display, laying down charismatic vocals declaring that she loves her man even more than her shoes".
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