What These Bitches Want

"What These Bitches Want"
Single by DMX featuring Sisqó
from the album ... And Then There Was X
B-side"Fame"
ReleasedJune 6, 2000
Recorded1999
Genre
Length4:37
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • Earl Simmons
  • Mark Andrews
  • Tamir Ruffin
  • Phillip Weatherspoon
Producer(s)Nokio the N-Tity
DMX singles chronology
"Party Up (Up in Here)"
(2000)
"What These Bitches Want"
(2000)
"Don't You Ever?"
(2000)
Sisqó singles chronology
"Thong Song"
(2000)
"What These Bitches Want"
(2000)
"Incomplete"
(2000)

"What These Bitches Want" (edited for radio as "What You Want" or "What They Really Want") is a song by American rapper DMX, released as the third single from his third album ... And Then There Was X (1999). The song features Sisqó from the group Dru Hill, while his fellow group member Nokio the N-Tity produced the song and provided background vocals. The subject matter in the song is past women in DMX's life.[1]

In August 2019, the song regained prominence on social media 19 years after its initial release date when a DMX challenge surfaced on the internet. For the challenge, women piece together photos and clips of themselves in various hairstyles, switching the images to the song's lyrics to suggest that they're a different person with every hairstyle.[2]

  1. ^ Vozick-Levinson, Jayson Buford,Christian Hoard,Jeff Ihaza,Elias Leight,Mosi Reeves,Rob Sheffield,Simon; Buford, Jayson; Hoard, Christian; Ihaza, Jeff; Leight, Elias; Reeves, Mosi; Sheffield, Rob; Vozick-Levinson, Simon (2021-04-09). "DMX: 16 Essential Songs". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2021-04-21.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Mahadevan, Tara (August 22, 2019). "DMX's "What These B*tches Want" Sparks New Social Media Challenge". Complex. Retrieved August 28, 2019.