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The lead single from Mariah’s 1999 album Rainbow, this Jay-Z assisted track was released on September 21 and would two weeks later become her #14 chart topper in the US, as well as Jay’s first #1 single.
Lyrically, the song talks about a relationship from the female perspective, and how the protago...
[Intro: JAY-Z & Mariah Carey]
Yeah
We're gonna do it like this
Aight
Let's go
Jigga
[Refrain: Mariah Carey & JAY-Z]
Gimme your love
Uh
Gimme your love
What?
Gimme your love
MC
Gimme your love
Uh, jigga
Gimme your love
Gimme your love
Gimme your love
Gimme your love
Hey
Gimme your love
Gimme your love
You gotta bounce to this like this
Gimme your love
Gimme your love
You almost gotta watch and listen
Gimme your love
Uh-huh
Gimme your love
Woo
Gimme your love
X-Scape
Gimme your love
[Verse 1: Mariah Carey]
Boy, your love's so good
I don't wanna let go
And although I should
I can't leave you alone
'Cause you're so disarming
I'm caught up in the midst of you
And I cannot resist at all
[Pre-Chorus: Mariah Carey & JAY-Z]
Boy, if I do
The things you want me to
Uh-huh
The way I used to do
Would you love me, baby
Uh-huh
Or leave me feeling used?
Would you go and break my heart?
[Chorus: Mariah Carey]
Heartbreaker, you got the best of me
But I just keep on coming back incessantly
Oh, why did you have to run your game on me?
I should have known right from the start
You'd go and break my heart
[Refrain: Mariah Carey & JAY-Z]
Gimme your love
Gimme your love
Gimme your love
Gimme your love
Uh-huh
Gimme your love
Gimme your love
Gimme your love
Gimme your love
Gimme your love
What?
Gimme your love
Gimme your love
Gimme your love
She said
Gimme your love
What?
Gimme your love
She said
Gimme your love
Uh-huh
Gimme your love
Gimme your love
[Verse 2: Mariah Carey]
It's a shame to be
So euphoric and weak
When you smile at me
And you tell me the things
That you know
Persuade me to relinquish my love
To you
But I cannot resist at all
[Pre-Chorus: Mariah Carey]
Boy, if I do
The things you wanna do
The way I used to do
Would you love me, baby (Love me, oh)
Or leaving me feeling used?
Would you go and break my heart?
[Chorus: Mariah Carey]
(Heartbreaker, you got the best of me)
Heartbreaker, you got the best of me (You got the best)
But I just keep on coming back incessantly (I keep on, keep on)
Oh, why did you have to run your game on me?
(Why, why did you have to run your game?)
I should have known right from the start
(The start that you'd go and break my heart)
You'd go and break my heart
[Verse 3: Jay-Z]
I'm all over ready
Okay, cool, alright
She wanna shop with Jay
Play box with Jay
She wanna pillow fight in the middle of the night
She wanna drive my Benz with five of her friends
She wanna creep past the block, spying again
She wanna roll with Jay, chase skeeos away
She wanna fight with lame chicks, blow my date
She wanna inspect the rest, kick me to the curb
If she find one strand of hair longer than hers
She want love in the jacuzzi, rub up in the movies
Access to the old crib, keys to the newbie
She wanna answer the phone, tattoo her arm
That's when I gotta send her back to her moms
She calls me heartbreaker
When we apart, it makes her want a piece of paper
Scribble down "I hate ya", but she knows she loves Jay because
She loves everything Jay say, Jay does, and all
[Chorus: Mariah Carey]
(Oh boy, you got the best of me)
Heartbreaker, you got the best of me
But I just keep on coming back incessantly (I keep on coming back)
Oh, why did you have to run your game on me
(Why did you have to run your game?)
I should have known right from the start
(Right from the start that you'd)
You'd go and break my heart (Go and break my heart)
Heartbreaker, you got the best of me
But I just keep on coming back incessantly
Oh why, did you have to run your game on me?
(I should have known) I should have known right from the start
(That you would go and break my heart)
You'd go and break my heart
Heartbreaker, you got the best of me
But I just keep on coming back incessantly
Oh, why did you have to run your game on me?
I should have known right from the start
You'd go and break my heart
[Post-Chorus: Mariah Carey]
(Boy, if I do) Heartbreaker, you got the best of me
But I just keep on coming back incessantly
(The things you want me to)
(The way I used to do)
Oh, why did you have to (Would you love me, baby?)
Run your game on me
I should have known right from the start
(Or leave me feeling used) Right from the start
(Would you go and break?) (My heart)
You'd go and break my heart
[Outro: Mariah Carey & JAY-Z]
Gimme your love
Gimme your love
Gimme your love
Damn straight
Gimme your love
That's a wrap
Heartbreaker was written by Shirley Ellis & Mariah Carey & Lincoln Chase & Narada Michael Walden & Jeffrey Cohen & JAY-Z.
Heartbreaker was produced by DJ Clue & Mariah Carey.
Mariah Carey released Heartbreaker on Tue Sep 21 1999.
The original video had featured Hov rapping his verse while sitting in a large bathtub in a luxurious bathroom, as inspired by a famous scene from the 1983 gangster classic Scarface:
However, the scene had to be cut from the initial August 16, 1999 video release due to a contractual agreement Jay h...
In a March 2018 interview with V magazine Mariah spoke on how the 1999 collaboration came about, and how it led to “Things That U Do” later that year:
Well, the first time I worked with Jay was for the album Rainbow, on the song “Heartbreaker.” We were at Mr Chow’s in New York—this is before everyb...
‘Heartbreaker’ was the first one we did—we had a mutual friend who was always saying we should do something together. I had an idea—I always loved some Stacy Lattisaw, ‘Attack of the Name Game.’ I used to listen to it when I was young. I sampled it, and put the idea together. Once I played it for Ma...
The music video had a budget of $2.5 million, which was one of the most expensive videos ever produced at the time.
The song peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 during the week of October 8, 1999. It charted for a total of 20 weeks.