Can't Hang/Do You Want To

""Can't Hang" / "Do You Want To""
Single by Xscape featuring MC Lyte
from the album Off the Hook
B-side Do You Want To
Released February 2, 1996
Format CD single, 12" single, cassette
Recorded 1995
Genre R&B, hip hop (Can't Hang)
R&B, soul (Do You Want To)
Length 3:46 (Can't Hang)
4:05 (Radio Edit) (Do You Want To)
Label So So Def Recordings
Writer(s) Jermaine Dupri, Carl-So-Lowe, Lana Moorer, Kandi Burruss, Tameka Cottle, LaTocha Scott, Tamika Scott
Producer(s) Jermaine Dupri
Xscape chronology
"Do You Want To"
(1996)
"Can't Hang"
(1996)
"Keep On, Keepin' On"
(1996)
MC Lyte 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 appears on all verses of "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 fiance and daughter Zonnique's father known by the nickname Z-Bo.

References

  1. "Chart Archive". AllMusic. Retrieved 2007-06-23.