"What Ya Want" (also titled "What Y'all Want") is a song by American rapper

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. It features American singer Nokio of

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and appears on the compilation album '' Ryde or Die Vol. 1'' (1999) by American record label

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. A remix of the song appears as a bonus track on Eve's debut studio album '' Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryders' First Lady'' (1999).

Composition

"What Ya Want" is a

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song containing

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-inspired elements. In a ''Pitchfork'' review, Rawiya Kameir described the song as "built around a rudimentary Latin preset on an

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synth".

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References

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