(When You Gonna) Give It Up To Me

Album

Step Up

Label

VP

Genre

Stage & Screen

Media Type

CD

Duration

3:00

Composer(s)

Sean Henriques;Donovan Bennett;Nigel Staff

Entered Chart

Jun 10, 2006

Peak Date

Sep 9, 2006

Released

6 June 2006

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

VP 94413 (Atlantic)

"(When You Gonna) Give It Up to Me" (known as "Give It Up to Me" in its solo version) is a song written by Jamaican rapper Sean Paul for his third album, The Trinity (2005). The single meant to be released after "Temperature" was "Breakout" but was switched to "Give It Up to Me" to promote the film Step Up (2006). It was the fourth US single to be taken from the album and the fifth UK single. The version released as a single ("(When You Gonna) Give It Up to Me") is a collaboration with Keyshia Cole and is from the Step Up film soundtrack. Despite The Trinity being re-released just before the single release, the version with Keyshia Cole does not appear on the album despite a "radio version" being added. The solo version was released in the US on 6 June 2006 while the version with Cole was released two weeks later, on 20 June. It was later issued as a commercial single in Australia and the United Kingdom in October 2006. "(When You Gonna) Give It Up to Me" climbed to number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart upon its release, becoming Paul's sixth top-10 hit and Cole's first top-10 hit. Internationally, the song became a top-20 hit in Australia, the Czech Republic, Finland, Switzerland, and the Wallonia region of Belgium.

Get out my head and into the bed girl
Cah yuh dun know, plottin' out the fantasy
Ayy, baby girl, and it's you a di key
Yo, mi go so then

From yuh look inna mi eye gal mi see seh yuh want me
When you gonna give it up to me?
Because yuh body enticin' yuh makin' mi want it
When yuh gonna give it up to me?
Well if a no today girl then a must be tomorrow (ooh, ooh, ooh)
When you fulfill my fantasy
Because yuh know I give yuh lovin' straight like a arrow
When yuh gonna give it up to me?

So back it up deh, so pack it up, yeah
'Cause I wanna be the man that's really gonna have it up
And mack it up and rack it up deh
So what is up, yeah?
You know you got the vibe, inna me heart and level up, and it swell up and
Double up, yeah
So gimme the work, yeah
And rope in to fend for Dutty Looks and Kurup, yeah
So rev it up deh, gal gwaan try you luck deh 
'Cause when you stir it up you know me haffi measure up, yeah

From yuh look inna mi eye gal mi see seh yuh want me
When you gonna give it up to me?
Because yuh body enticin' yuh makin' mi want it
When yuh gonna give it up to me?
Well if a no today girl then a must be tomorrow (ooh, ooh, ooh)
When you fulfill my fantasy
Because yuh know I give yuh lovin' straight like a arrow
When yuh gonna give it up to me?

Hey pretty girl, seh mi love fi see you walk
Yuh no habla ingles but just listen me when me a talk
This ya one yeah from me heart, woman you got me caught
You ever inna me thoughts and no left me inna the dark, inna the
First place gal that's where you belong
So just let me flip the switch woman I can turn it on and
Gimme the passion from dusk 'til dawn
Tell me if you want it fi gwaan, my girl

As a woman on my own I got it goin' on
And I'm liking what I'm seeing I don't wanna be alone
'Cause you got me in a daze your illusion make me sway
We go back and forth and round and round and nothing turn away
Baby boy could it be wonderful like this
To say it's only bout in the way you twist
'Cause you got me in a daze your illusion make me sway
I'm caught up in you now I'm tempted to stay, oh no

From yuh look inna mi eye gal mi see seh yuh want me (oh oh)
When you gonna give it up to me?
Because yuh body enticin' yuh makin' mi want it (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
When yuh gonna give it up to me?
Well if a no today girl then a must be tomorrow (ooh, ooh, ooh)
When you fulfill my fantasy (yeah, yeah)
Because yuh know I give yuh lovin' straight like a arrow (whoa, whoa)
When yuh gonna give it up to me?

Boom, cha-boom, cha-boom boom, boom, cha-boom, cha-boom boom (c'mon)
Boom, cha-boom, cha-boom, boom, ba ba boom, cha-boom, cha-boom boom
Ayy

So why can't you see, we ought to be
Together, girl, don't front on me
I just wanna be near, so don't have no fear
And lemme see you bring your body right over here
Because you should share it, girl I'll care it
And I'm gonna give you love so clear
It gonna make you shine and once you are mine
We be rockin' it until the end of time (hey, hey)

From yuh look inna mi eye gal mi see seh yuh want me (yeah, yeah)
When you gonna give it up to me?
Because yuh body enticin' yuh makin' mi want it (ooh, baby)
When yuh gonna give it up to me? (ayy, yeah)
Well if a no today girl then a must be tomorrow (tomorrow)
When you fulfill my fantasy
Because yuh know I give yuh lovin' straight like a arrow (yeah-yeah)
When yuh gonna give it up to me? (oh no)
From yuh look inna mi eye gal mi see seh yuh want me
When you gonna give it up to me? 
Because yuh body enticin' yuh makin' mi want it (hey, oh right)
When yuh gonna give it up to me? (hey, hey, hey, hey)
Well if a no today girl then a must be tomorrow (ooh, ooh, ooh)
When you fulfill my fantasy
Because yuh know I give yuh lovin' straight like a arrow (baby)
When yuh gonna give it up to me?

Oh, oh, oh (yeah yeah, yo yo)
Whoa, oh, oh (Sean-A-Paul and yuh know we a nuh go yo)
Whoa, oh, oh (yeah-yeah) oh, oh, oh (yo, yo, di S.P. and we deh yah pon di go yo)
Ooh, ooh, ooh (Sean Paul, Keyshia Cole and Don Corleon, a next chapter)
Oh, oh, oh (yah mon, for all my girls, yuh know)
Oh, oh, oh (keep it, keep it, keep it, keep it sexy)

Oh ah oh (boom, cha-boom, cha-boom boom)
Oh ah oh (boom, cha-boom, cha-boom boom)
Oh ah oh (boom, cha-boom, cha-boom boom)
Ooh oh, oh, oh (ba ba boom, cha-boom, cha-boom boom)
Oh no (boom, cha-boom, cha-boom boom)
Oh ah oh (boom, cha-boom, cha-boom boom)
Oh ah oh (boom, cha-boom, cha-boom boom)
Oh ah oh (boom, cha-boom, cha-boom boom)