Can't You See (Total song)

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"Can't You See?"
Single by Total featuring The Notorious B.I.G.
from the album New Jersey Drive, Vol. 1 and Total
Released	March 27, 1995
Recorded	1994
Genre	R&B hip hop soul
Length	4:54 (single version) 4:41 (album version)
Label	Tommy Boy Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)	Terri Robinson, Sean Combs, Rashad Smith, Herb Middleton, Christopher Wallace, Joseph Howell, Randal Ryan, Mark South, Terry Williams, James Brown
Producer(s)	Rashad Smith of The Hitmen, Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs, Herb Middleton, and Chucky Thompson
Total singles chronology
"Can't You See?" (1995) "No One Else" (1995)
The Notorious B.I.G. singles chronology
"Big Poppa" (1994) "Can't You See" (1995) "Player's Anthem" (1995)
Music video
"Can't You See" on YouTube

"Can't You See" is a 1995 song by American R&B girl group Total, released as their debut single. The track was released from the New Jersey Drive soundtrack and also later appeared on their debut album, Total. After making their recording debut on his tracks "Juicy", "One More Chance" and "One More Chance" (Hip Hop Remix)", The Notorious B.I.G. returned the favor with an intro rap verse to the song. The track was written and arranged by Terri & Monica's Terri Robinson, produced entirely by Sean "Puffy" Combs with instrumentation provided by associates Rashad Smith, Herb Middleton and Chucky Thompson and contains a sample from James Brown's "The Payback". The track was a success both on the mainstream US Billboard Hot 100 chart, reaching number thirteen and the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, where it made number three. The song also peaked at number forty-three on the UK Singles Chart, where it charted for two weeks.

The main edit to the track was the "Bad Boy Remix", which had the girls sing the original lyrics with a different vocal arrangement. The intro rap by The Notorious B.I.G. was replaced with one from Keith Murray and its own music video. The track also had inserts of the girls acting as callers to a request line asking for the song to be played, saying such things as "Hey, can you play that Total Remix?". The vocals from this edit were also used on the "So So Def Remix" by Jermaine Dupri. The only remixes using the original track were those from funky house producer E-Smoove.

Billboard named the song #28 on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time.^[1]