"I Wanna Sex You Up" was a hit song for R&B boy band Color Me Badd in 1991. The song spent three weeks at number 1 on the UK Singles Chart and reached number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100. An alternate version also appeared on the New Jack City soundtrack, and in 1992 the song won the group a Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single, Group, Band or Duo and Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Song of the Year. The "to the tick tock ya don't stop" soundbite is a sampled from Slick Rick's "La Di Da Di." The bassline and the "I know you not gonna sing that song!" soundbite are sampled from Betty Wright's "Tonight is the Night." The song was also ranked at #40 on Blender's list of the "50 Worst Songs Ever"^[1] and VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the 90s".

Radio stations edited the word "sex" out of the song, so disc jockeys refer to the song as "I Wanna Love You Up".

A sample of "I Wanna Sex You Up" has been used in a song called "Tick Tock" by Lemar.^[2]

The song can be heard in an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and the movie New Jack City.

[edit] Track listings

"I Wanna Sex You Up" (smoothed out mix) (3:38)
"I Wanna Sex You Up" (smoothed out - long version) (5:13)
"I Wanna Sex You Up" (instrumental) (4:04)
"I Wanna Sex You Up" (master mix) (4:05)
"I Wanna Sex You Up" (freeze mix) (4:06)

[edit] Credits

Chart (1991)^[3] ^[4] ^[5] ^[6] ^[7]	Peak position
Australian Singles Chart	4
Austrian Singles Chart	11
French Singles Chart	20
German Singles Chart	4
Irish Singles Chart	9
New Zealand Singles Chart	5
Norwegian Singles Chart	5
Swedish Singles Chart	5
Swiss Singles Chart	7
UK Singles Chart	1
US Billboard Hot 100	2
US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales	1
US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs	1

Preceded by "Kissing You" by Keith Washington	Billboard's Hot R&B Singles number one single June 1, 1991 2 weeks	Succeeded by "Power of Love/Love Power" by Luther Vandross
Preceded by "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" by Cher	UK number-one single June 2, 1991 for 3 weeks	Succeeded by "Any Dream Will Do" by Jason Donovan
Preceded by "More than Words" by Extreme	New Zealand (RIANZ) number one single July 12, 1991 - July 19, 1991	Succeeded by "More than Words" by Extreme

^ Run for Your Life! It's the 50 Worst Songs Ever! from Blender.com
^ RCA. Lemar – Tick Tock. Retrieved on 2007-07-01.
^ "I Wanna Sex You Up", in various Singles Chart Lescharts.com (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
^ German Singles Chart Charts-surfer.de (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
^ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
^ UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
^ Billboard Billboard.com (Retrieved April 7, 2008)