Whatever You Want (Tony! Toni! Toné! song)

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"Whatever You Want"
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Single by Tony! Toni! Toné!
from the album The Revival
ReleasedFebruary 13, 1991
Recorded1989
Genre R&B
Length4:51
Label Wing
Songwriter(s) Carl Wheeler & D'wayne Wiggins
Producer(s) Tony! Toni! Toné!
Tony! Toni! Toné! singles chronology
"It Never Rains (In Southern California)"
(1990)
"Whatever You Want"
(1991)
"House Party II (I Don't Know What You Come to Do)"
(1991)

"Whatever You Want" is the title of a number-one R&B single written by Tony! Toni! Tone! member Dwayne Wiggins and also performed by the group. It was the fourth and final single released from their second album, The Revival . The song spent two weeks at number one on the US R&B chart and peaked at number forty-eight on the Billboard Hot 100. [1] It is their first single that did not feature Raphael on lead vocals.

The song was sampled in a number of songs including Kelly Price's "Soul of a Woman", in the remix of Ludacris's "Splash Waterfalls", in "Luven' Me" by rapper Nelly, in "OTW" by DJ Luke Nasty, and in "Whatever You Need" by Meek Mill. [2]

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  2. Highway Music: Stuck in Traffic. "OTW by DJ Luke Nasty". WhoSampled. Retrieved 2017-03-05.