What Ya Want

{{Short description|1999 single by Eve}}

{{Infobox song

| name = What Ya Want

| cover =

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Eve featuring Nokio

| album = Ryde or Die Vol. 1

| B-side =

| released = June 1999

| recorded =

| studio =

| genre = Hip hop

| length = 4:23

| label =

| writer =

| producer = Swizz Beatz

| chronology = Eve

| prev_title = Girlfriend/Boyfriend

| prev_year = 1999

| next_title = Gotta Man

| next_year = 1999

| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = Nokio

| type = single

| title = What Ya Want

| year = 1999

}}

}}

"What Ya Want" (also titled "What Y'all Want") is a song by American rapper Eve. It features American singer Nokio of Dru Hill and appears on the compilation album Ryde or Die Vol. 1 (1999) by American record label Ruff Ryders Entertainment. A remix of the song appears as a bonus track on Eve's debut studio album Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryders' First Lady (1999).

Composition

"What Ya Want" is a hip hop song containing Latin-inspired elements.{{Cite news|last=Harrington|first=Richard|date=October 6, 1999|title=The Two Faces of Eve|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/10/06/thetwo-facesof-eve/dfa940f9-5ecb-47d1-a851-308d484e2842/}}{{Cite web|last=Kameir|first=Rawiya|date=March 17, 2019|title=Eve: Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryders' First Lady|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/eve-let-there-be-everuff-ryders-first-lady/|access-date=|website=Pitchfork|language=en-US}} In a Pitchfork review, Rawiya Kameir described the song as "built around a rudimentary Latin preset on an E-MU synth".

Charts

class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
scope="col"| Chart (1999)

! scope="col"| Peak
position

{{singlechart|Billboardhot100|29|artist=Eve|rowheader=true}}
{{singlechart|Billboardrandbhiphop|9|artist=Eve|rowheader=true}}
{{singlechart|Billboardrapsongs|1|artist=Eve|rowheader=true}}
{{singlechart|Billboardrhythmic|13|artist=Eve|rowheader=true}}

References