Ain't What You Do

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"Ain't What You Do"
Big Brovaz - Ain't What You Do (CD 1).jpg
Single by Big Brovaz
from the album Nu-Flow
ReleasedDecember 8, 2003
Recorded2002
Genre R&B, hip hop
Length3:17(radio edit)
3:46 (album version)
Label Sony / Epic Records
Songwriter(s) Big Brovaz (Cherise, Nadia, J-Rock & Randy) & Dion Howell
Producer(s) Skillz & Fingaz
Big Brovaz singles chronology
"Baby Boy"
(2003)
"Ain't What You Do"
(2003)
"We Wanna Thank You (The Things You Do)"
(2004)

"Ain't What You Do" is a single released in 2003, by the UK hip hop/R&B group Big Brovaz. The single is the fifth and final single taken from Big Brovaz's 2002 debut album, Nu-Flow .

"Ain't What You Do" became Big Brovaz's fifth UK hit, but their first to miss the top ten, peaking at number fifteen and spending seven weeks inside the top seventy-five of the UK Singles Chart. [1] The single was not released in Australia.

"Ain't What You Do" is based on Fun Boy Three and Bananarama's collaboration "It Ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)".

Track listing

UK CD 1 [2]

  1. "Ain't What You Do" (album version)
  2. "Ain't What You Do" (Trackboyz remix)
  3. "Ain't What You Do" (Kardinal Beats remix)
  4. "Ain't What You Do" (video)

UK CD 2 [3]

  1. "Ain't What You Do" (radio edit)
  2. "Ain't What You Do" (Bloodshy & Avant remix)
  3. "'Tis the Time to Rock the Party"

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References

  1. UK chart positions source
  2. UK CD: 1 track listings reference
  3. UK CD: 2 track listings reference