Can't Hang/Do You Want To

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""Can't Hang" / "Do You Want To""
File:Doyouwantto.jpg
Single by Xscape featuring MC Lyte
from the album Off the Hook
B-side"Do You Want To"
ReleasedFebruary 1, 1996
Recorded1995
LengthCan't Hang (3:45) Do You Want To 4:05 (single version) 5:40 (album version)
LabelSo So Def
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Jermaine Dupri
Xscape singles chronology
"Who Can I Run To"
(1996)
""Can't Hang" / "Do You Want To""
(1996)
"Keep On Keepin' On"
(1996)
MC Lyte singles chronology
"Freedom"
(1994)
"Can't Hang"
(1996)
"Keep On, Keepin' On"
(1996)

"Can't Hang" / "Do You Want To" is Xscape's fourth single from their second studio album Off the Hook that featured rapper MC Lyte. The song reached number #50 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number #9 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks. It was a double A side to Do You Want To.[1]

The song saw member Kandi taking lead vocals on most of "Can't Hang". Tiny Cottle and Latocha Scott share lead vocals on "Do You Want To".

Music video

The video was shot in a beauty salon.

"Do You Want To" was the group's final single from the Off The Hook album which achieved moderate to low success was released on January 16, 1996 and the song sees group member "Tiny" taking the lead. The song's music video is the second (the first being Who Can I Run To) that features Tiny's ex fiancé and daughter Zonnique's father known by the nickname Z-Bo.

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1996) Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100[2] 50
US Hot Dance Singles Sales (Billboard)[3] 3
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[4] 9
US Rhythmic (Billboard)[5] 22

Year-end charts

Chart (1996) Position
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[6] 58

References

  1. ^ "Chart Archive". AllMusic. Retrieved June 23, 2007.
  2. ^ "Xscape Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  3. ^ "Xscape Chart History (Dance Singles Sales)". Billboard. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  4. ^ "Xscape Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  5. ^ "Xscape Chart History (Rhythmic)". Billboard. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  6. ^ "1996 The Year in Music". Billboard. Vol. 108, no. 52. December 28, 1996. p. YE-40. Retrieved June 30, 2021.