'03 Bonnie & Clyde

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"'03 Bonnie & Clyde"
Single by Jay-Z featuring Beyoncé
from the album The Blueprint²: The Gift & the Curse
Released	November 12, 2002
Format	CD single, 12" single
Genre	R&B / Hip Hop
Length	3:25
Label	Roc-A-Fella/Island Def Jam
Writer(s)	Shawn Carter, Kanye West, Prince, Darrell Harper, Rick Rouse, Tupac Shakur, Tyrone Wrice
Producer(s)	Kanye West
Certification	Platinum (ARIA)
Chart positions
#1 (Switzerland) #2 (Australia, UK) #4 (Canada, New Zealand, U.S.)
Jay-Z singles chronology
"Song Cry" (2001)	"'03 Bonnie & Clyde" (2002)	"Hovi Baby" (2002)
Beyoncé singles chronology
"Work It Out" (2002)	"'03 Bonnie & Clyde" (2002)	"Crazy in Love" (2003)

"'03 Bonnie & Clyde" is a single by rapper Jay-Z featuring R&B singer Beyoncé. It was taken from his ninth studio album The Blueprint²: The Gift & the Curse and can also be found on the international editions of her solo debut album Dangerously in Love. Released in 2002, the song reached number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, becoming Jay-Z's fifth top ten single and Beyoncé's first top ten single as a solo artist; it also reached number two in the UK. The single is notable for causing drama between Jay-Z and Toni Braxton over what she claimed was a stolen sample. Jay-Z had to work with Suge Knight to secure the rights to cover this song from 2Pac, who made the original version of the song called "Me and My Girlfriend," featured on his 1996 sixth album The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory.

The music video for the song, directed by Chris Robinson, was nominated for "Best Hip-Hop Video" at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, but it lost out to Missy Elliott's "Work It."

[edit] Charts

Chart (2002/2003)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	4
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs	5
U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Tracks	2
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream	7
U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40	1
Australia ARIA Top 100 Singles	2
Austria Top 75 Singles	28
Canada Top 50 Singles	4
Dutch Top 40	5
France Top 100 Singles	25
Germany Top 100 Singles	6
Ireland Top 50 Singles	20
Italy Top 50 Singles	8
Japan Oricon Top 200 Singles	49
New Zealand RIANZ Top 50 Singles	4
Switzerland Top 100 Singles	1
Sweden Top 60 Singles	14
UK Top 75 Singles	2
UK Top 40 R&B Singles	2
United World Chart	7
World R&B Top 30 Singles	2

[edit] Trivia

• The title is a reference to Eminem's 1999 "'97 Bonnie & Clyde."
• The chorus uses lyrics from Mariah Carey featuring Usher's "How Much," from Rainbow, which itself was based on 2Pac's "Me and My Girlfriend."
• Prince's 1987 "If I Was Your Girlfriend" is also referenced by Beyoncé in the lines "If I was your girlfriend, I'd be there for you...".