Songfacts®:

• This club banger teams two of the biggest stars in Latin music: Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull. They wrote the lyrics, with Lady Gaga collaborator RedOne supplying the beat and handling production.
  
  The song finds the boys putting the moves on a lady at the club, offering a good time with no strings attached. "It was a fun fantasy," Iglesias, who was in a long-term relationship with the tennis player Anna Kournikova, explained to People. "Not overthought, just a fun song."
• This hook line, "Party, karamu, fiesta, forever," comes from Lionel Richie's 1983 hit "All Night Long (All Night)." The interpolation earned Richie credit as a songwriter on "I Like It."
• Listeners liked it indeed. Released as a single from Iglesias' 2010 album Eurphoria, the song was a global smash, his first big hit since "Escape" back in 2002. Pitbull was on the rise at the time, coming off a big hit with "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)." A year later, he landed his first #1 with "Give Me Everything (Tonight)."
• Two weeks after the Eurphoria album was released, "I Like It" was included on the official soundtrack to MTV's reality show Jersey Shore, which was red hot in the ratings. The album includes club-ready songs the cast would hear on their adventurous nights out.
• Euphoria is the first Enrique Iglesias album with songs sung in both Spanish and English - his first three albums were in Spanish, his next two in English, back to Spanish for his sixth, than back to English for his next two before Euphoria. "I wanted both [languages] to be on the same album," he explained to Billboard magazine. "It's a risk, but it's a risk I wanted to take. I was sick of coming out with one English album and one Spanish [album]. And the market has become a single-unit market where people pick and choose their music. It taps into so many different styles of music - it's been really exciting for me to experiment and explore new territory."
• According to Iglesias, he had this song for about three years but couldn't convince his label, Interscope, to release it - they didn't think dance music was happening. That changed when Iglesias moved to a different label, Universal Republic (owned by the UMG, the same parent company as Interscope), where they were more receptive to it.
• The music video was directed by Wayne Isham and features both Iglesias and Pitbull tearing it up in the club. An alternative video featuring the Jersey Shore cast was also released, this time directed by David Rousseau. The singer told Jam! Music about the latter video: "I thought it was fun. I thought it'd be different. And the cast was easy going. To tell you the truth, I don't watch the show. I know there's always fighting and a little bit of chaos going on in the show. (But) my friends are starting to pick up the words they use, their terminology. Like 'grenades' they use now. I think grenades means the girls you want to get away from, or something like that, I don't know."