"It Takes More" is a song by British

rapper Rapping (also rhyming, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular". It is performed or chanted, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. The ...

Ms. Dynamite Niomi Arleen McLean-Daley (born 26 April 1981), better known as Ms. Dynamite, is a British singer and rapper. She is the recipient of the Mercury Music Prize, two Brit Awards and three MOBO Awards. Early years She was born Niomi Arleen Mc ...

, released as her debut single from her first album, ''

A Little Deeper ''A Little Deeper'' is the debut studio album by English singer and rapper Ms. Dynamite. It was released on 10 June 2002 by Polydor Records. The album won the Mercury Prize in 2002. As of September 2011, it had sold 495,000 copies in the United Ki ...

'' (2002), on 20 May 2002. It reached number seven on the

UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-s ...

, her second-highest-charting song on the chart. The melody is taken from the song "", a popular Roman song written by C. Bruno (pseudonym of Bruno Cherubini) and Eldo Di Lazzaro in 1934.

Versions

There are two versions that were released, album and radio edit. For the radio edit, Ms. Dynamite re-wrote her lyrics instead of using the censor option. On clean versions of ''

'', a censored version is used, bleeping out inappropriate content. The album version was released on physical UK CD singles.

Track listing

UK CD # "It Takes More (Bloodshy Main Mix)" – 4:39 # "Dynamite" # "It Takes More' (Nash Band Mix)"

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Release history

References

2002 debut singles 2002 songs Ms. Dynamite songs Music videos directed by Jake Nava Polydor Records singles Songs written by Ms. Dynamite {{2000s-hiphop-single-stub