How Do U Want It

"How Do U Want It"
Single by 2Pac featuring K-Ci & JoJo
from the album All Eyez on Me
A-side	"California Love"
B-side	"2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" "Hit 'Em Up"
Released	June 4, 1996
Recorded	October 15, 1995
Studio	Can-Am Studios (Tarzana, Los Angeles)
Genre	Hip hop R&B
Length	4:47 (album version) 3:59 (radio edit)
Label	Death Row Interscope
Songwriter(s)	Tupac Shakur Johnny Jackson Mr.Dalvin
Producer(s)	Johnny "J" & Mr. Dalvin
2Pac singles chronology
"2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" (1996) "How Do U Want It" (1996) "I Ain't Mad at Cha" (1996)
K-Ci & JoJo singles chronology
"If You Think You're Lonely Now" (1994) "How Do You Want It" (1996) "How Could You" (1996)
Music video
"How Do U Want It" on YouTube

"How Do U Want It" is a song by American rapper 2Pac from his fourth studio album, All Eyez on Me (1996). It was released on June 4, 1996 as a double A-sided single with "California Love" from the same album and was his final single to be released during his lifetime. The song features R&B duo K-Ci & JoJo, who at the time were best known as the lead singers of the group Jodeci. The song reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, becoming Death Row Records first and only chart topping single, and number seventeen in the UK in 1996. The song received a Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group Grammy nomination in 1997. ^[1]

Produced by Johnny "J", "How Do U Want It" samples Quincy Jones' 1974 song "Body Heat", and includes a diss towards civil rights activist and fierce rap critic C. Delores Tucker. Tucker later sued 2Pac's estate, claiming that comments in this song, and on the track "Wonda Why They Call U Bitch" from the same album, inflicted emotional distress, were slanderous, and invaded her privacy.^[2] The case was later dismissed.^[3] A music video was created for "How Do U Want It" and its B-sides "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" and "Hit 'Em Up".