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Usher wrote this song with Jermaine Dupri and Manuel Seal, Jr. Dupri is a prolific writer and producer who has a company called So So Def Recordings, and Seal is one of his songwriters.
Usher says in 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh, "'You Make Me Wanna' was about a man having problems with his girlfriend and turning to another female for comfort. Before long he found he was falling in love with the other girl. It was one of the last songs that we cut. As soon as we heard it, we knew that it should be the first one to release from the album."
This song had the longest run in the history of Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks, eventually winding up with a 71-week run on the chart. In the US, this was #2 on the Pop charts for 7 weeks, unable to dislodge Elton John's "Candle In The Wind." However in the UK this was Usher's first #1. (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England, for above 2)
"You Make Me Wanna's" record run in the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs list was overtaken by Mary J. Blige's "Be Without You" in 2007. In total Blige's recording was on the chart for 75 weeks.
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