" 21 Answers" is a remix by Lil' Mo and former 106 & Park co-host Free, which was released as an 'answer track' to "21 Questions." Kevin "Dirty Swift" Risto, one-half of Midi Mafia, originally penned the idea of creating a female response record he immediately got in touch with R&B singer Lil' Mo and added former 106 & Park personality Free to the mix. Promotional single by Lil' Mo featuring Free Official remixes of the single includes featured artists among the likes of Nate Dogg, Monica, Free and Lil' Mo, all of whom have either rapped or sung their own verses over the song's instrumentals. It also reached number two on the MuchMusic video charts.
On April 15, 2003, the video debuted on MTV's Total Request Live at number six, reached number one two days later, and stayed on the chart for 50 days. The video has cameo appearances by Nate Dogg (who provides vocals on the chorus and the outro) and fellow G-Unit members Lloyd Banks and Young Buck as other inmates. The video ends with a continuation of the beginning, showing 50 Cent and his girlfriend watching from their home as the police arrest Beckford instead the prison scenes are revealed to be a hypothetical scenario imagined by a worried 50 Cent. In prison, he is constantly harassed by a rival inmate ( Tyson Beckford). Dre and Phillip Atwell in March 2003, the music video for "21 Questions" depicts 50 Cent being arrested and confined to prison, where he tries to keep in touch with his girlfriend, played by Meagan Good.
To me that's not diversity, it's necessity." Music video ĭirected by Damon Johnson, Dr. I've always had to be two people since I was a kid, to get by. "Dre was, like, 'How you goin' to be gangsta this and that and then put this sappy love song on?'"
Dre worked with 50 Cent on his debut album, he objected to the song being included on the tracklist. It was also successful internationally, reaching the top ten in the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, and the top five in Canada and Australia. In total, 21 Questions spent four weeks atop the Hot 100 and twenty-three weeks on the chart. "21 Questions" peaked at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in May 2003, becoming the second consecutive chart-topping single for 50 Cent, following the album's lead single, " In Da Club", and the first for Nate Dogg. It contains elements of Barry White's 1978 song " It's Only Love Doing Its Thing". Unlike his previous singles and most of the songs on the album, "21 Questions" is an R&B-influenced love song, largely themed around a series of questions pertaining to a relationship between 50 Cent and an unnamed girlfriend. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment, Eminem's Shady Records, and 50 Cent's own G-Unit Records as the second single from 50 Cent's debut studio album Get Rich or Die Tryin'.
It was released in March 2003 through Interscope Records, Dr. " 21 Questions" is a song by American rapper 50 Cent featuring fellow American rapper and singer Nate Dogg.
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