| I Wasn't Kidding | |
| Cover: | I Wasn't Kidding.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Angie Stone |
| Released: | October 10, 2005 |
| Length: | 4:28 |
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| Prev Title: | Stay for a While |
| Prev Year: | 2004 |
| Next Title: | Baby |
| Next Year: | 2007 |
"I Wasn't Kidding" is a song by American singer Angie Stone. It was written by Andrea Martin and Adrian Austin for Stone's first greatest hits album, (2005), while production was overseen by Martin and Vada Nobles. The song is built around a sample from the 1984 record "Baby I'm Scared of You" as written and performed by Womack & Womack.
"I Wasn't Kidding" was written by Andrea Martin and Adrian Austin. Inspired by Martin's wish to use the beat of the Womack & Womack song "Baby I'm Scared of You" (1984) in a new "break-up song,"[1] much of the lyrics were penned by Austin.[1]
Billboard felt that "Stone conjures the 1980s with the booty-bumping" song and declared "I Wasn't Kidding" a "fun track, a stellar vocal and deserving entry on .[2] South African news website Independent Online called the song "a great old school jam."[3]
| Peak position | |
| Global Dance Songs (Billboard)[4] | 36 |
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| UK Urban (Music Week)[5] | 26 |
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| United States | [6] |