Babyface

Released: December 4, 2015

Featuring: After 7

Songwriter: Babyface Daryl Simmons

Producer: Babyface Daryl Simmons

[Verse 1]
Don't need no conversation
Won't waste my time explaining
You know just how I feel bout you don;t you
Don't need no confirmation
You know what I be thinking
I've always had a thing for you, just for you girl

[Verse 2:After 7]
Girl I've seen beautiful
But not like you before
Can't take this anymore
So if this is the last thing that I do
I will be with you

[Chorus: After 7]
Cause I want you
I want you
I want you
I want you girl
And all there is of you
Every part of you
I want you and I want you
Oh

[Verse 3: Babyface]
There be no mistaking
I'm running out of patience
I'm done anticipating you, I want you girl
Your heart your mind your soul your body under my control

[Verse 4: After 7]
At this point there is nothing I won't do, for you baby
Girl I've done beautiful
But not like yours before
Not waiting anymore
So if this is the last thing that I do
I will be with you

[Chorus: After 7]

[Verse 5: Babyface]
Now baby did I fail to mention
That I got the best intentions
That I'll be yours until the end of time
I want you
I want you
I want you girl
I want you

[Chorus: After 7]

Girl you best believe it
I want you

[Chorus: After 7]

Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds (born April 10, 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a Grammy Award-winning producer, singer, and songwriter responsible for a string of hits in the 1980s and 1990s. He has written and produced more than 20 number-one hits and won 11 Grammys—including three for Producer of the Year—for his work with Boyz II Men, Whitney Houston, Eric Clapton, Alicia Keys, and Toni Braxton, as well as his own work as an artist.

Babyface got his nickname from funk legend Bootsy Collins after joining his backing band in the 1970s. He joined the group Manchild in the late ‘70s—a group that also included his frequent collaborator Daryl Simmons—before moving out West and working with the group The Deele in the early 1980s, forming a bond with his bandmate and future production partner L.A. Reid. After producing the hit “Two Occasions” for The Deele, L.A. & Babyface broke off and became one of the biggest superproducer duos in R&B, rivaling the hits of fellow superproducer duo Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis.

L.A. & ‘Face had their hands in a string of #1 R&B hits in the late '80s and early '90s from artists such as Pebbles (“Girlfriend”), Karyn White (“Superwoman”), The Whispers (“Rock Steady”), Johnny Gill (“My, My, My”) and many more. They were also instrumental in the success of post-New Edition era Bobby Brown as they produced his #1 hits “Don’t Be Cruel,” “Every Little Step,” “On Our Own,” and “Humpin' Around.” They made history with Boyz II Men in 1992 as they wrote and produced “End of the Road,” which spent a record-breaking 14 consecutive weeks atop the pop chart.

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