Check on It

"Check on It" was written by Beyoncé, Slim Thug, Angela Beyincé and Sean Garrett. Production was handled by Swizz Beatz, who also co-wrote the song. Matt Hennessy, Dave Pensado, and Dexter Simmons mixed "Check on It" with assistance from Geoffrey Rice, and Matt Serrecchio. Beyoncé said that the song's title, "Check on It", was a phrase that she and her management jokingly used several times before they decided to turn it into a song. Originally recorded by Beyoncé only, the song was supposed to be included on the track-listing of the soundtrack album for the remake of The Pink Panther (2006), starring Steve Martin, Kevin Kline and Beyoncé. and the song with added vocals from Slim Thug, was then added on Beyoncé's former group Destiny's Child's greatest hits, ''#1's (2005). "Check on It" was nevertheless played during The Pink Panther''s end credits and used in TV spots to promote the film. The task of remixing the song was undertaken by Maurice Joshua with further assistance from Junior Vasquez who helped in its production. In the United Kingdom, a CD single was issued on January 16, 2006. "Check on It" was never released in Australia but charted as a digital track. The song was included as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of Beyoncé's second studio album, ''B'Day'' in European countries on April 3, 2007. Though the song was a commercial success worldwide, Beyoncé has revealed that she dislikes the song. She has explained that she was surprised at the commercial reception of "Check on It" as according to her, it is too simple, and not catchy like some of her previous singles. ==Composition==

"Check on It" is a midtempo hip-hop-influenced song, According to Bill Lamb of About.com, Beyoncé adopts smooth and alluring vocals throughout "Check on It". "Check on It" starts with a verse-rap from Slim Thug: "Good girls gotta get down with them gangstas / Go head girl put some back and some neck up on it..." The chorus lines; "Dip it, pop it, twerk it, stop it, check on me tonight" are sung in a very quick and breathless manner by Beyoncé. Bret McCabe noted that her pace could be compared to that of R&B singer Donna Summer. Slim Thug appears again after the second verse to perform another different verse rap: "I’m checking on you boo, do what’chu do / And while you dance I’ma glance at this beautiful view / I’m keep my hands in my pants, I need to glue ’em with glue ...". Before the song ends, Beyoncé repeats the chorus lines four times as additional vocals of hers are played in the background. ==Critical reception==

Music critics received the song positively, complimenting Beyoncé's vocal performance, and the easiness as well as the confidence she displays while singing her lyrics. A reviewer from the UK website Contactmusic.com described "Check on It" as a "booty shaking anthem" and complimented Beyoncé for switching to a club song after "Stand Up for Love". Jaime Gill of Yahoo! Music described "Check on It" as "sinuously brilliant". James Anthony of the British newspaper The Guardian wrote that the song "espouses a blissful disregard for traditional songwriting conventions. No Hova (Jay-Z) this time, but Houston rapper Slim Thug's lazy southern drawl suits the fractionally slower tempo." In the July 2006 issued copy of Spin magazine, Nick Duerden ranked the song at the seventh place on his list of The ten Beyoncé tracks you need to download, writing that "Check on It" is Beyoncé's sexiest song to date. "Check on It" was nominated in for Best Duet/Collaboration at the 2006 BET Awards, It also received a Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) Award for "Award-Winning Song". ==Commercial performance==

"Check on It" debuted at number 72 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart issue dated November 19, 2005. After 12 weeks on the chart, the song received the airplay gainer title, and reached number one on the Hot 100 chart issue dated February 4, 2006, becoming Beyoncé's third Hot 100 number-one as a solo artist and Slim Thug's first Hot 100 single. For the same week ending, "Check on It" was also at the top of the US Hot Digital Songs and the US Pop 100 charts. tying Beyoncé with Jennifer Lopez for having her first three number-one Hot 100 singles stay on top for five weeks or more. "Check on It" also tied with Canadian singer Daniel Powter's single "Bad Day" for the longest-running number-one single in 2006. "Check on It" spent a total of 28 weeks on the Hot 100. The song also topped the US Pop Songs, the US Hot Dance Club Play, the US Rhythmic Top 40, and the Hot 100 Airplay charts. It reached number three on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. At the end of 2006, "Check on It" emerged as the tenth best selling, and fourth most played song on radio stations in the US. It was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales and streams of over 2,000,000 units. "Check on It" debuted at number four on the UK Singles Chart on January 28, 2006. The following week, it peaked at number three and charted for 12 weeks in the top 75 positions of the UK Singles Chart. "Check on It" debuted at number 35 on the New Zealand Singles Chart on January 30, 2006, and reached number one for two consecutive weeks. In mainland Europe, "Check on It" reached the top five in Norway and the Netherlands, the top 10 in Switzerland, Denmark, and Austria, the top 20 in Germany and Sweden and top 40 in Belgium, France and Russia. ==Music video==

When demand was growing for the song, Beyoncé decided to make a music video for it, serving as promotion for both ''#1's and The Pink Panther''. Speaking about the video to BET, Beyoncé said: ['Check on It'] is so fun, it makes you feel like a child again and we wanted to put some of that in the choreography and the feel of the video. It's all about checking on yourself and making sure you're moving tight and your man admiring how you move. It's simple." In the video, Beyoncé is seen mostly in all pink, and the dancers wear PVC jackets and dance around rippling satin sheets. She occasionally bends over and grabs her behind. The video cuts to Beyoncé wearing a polka dot corset against a hot pink polka-dotted wall, wearing a pink wig and pink lipstick. Where black bars normally appear on a 4:3 (full screen) television showing a widescreen production, footage is displayed of curtains moving in the background. This was a trend in the videos directed by Williams during that year, with the effect being used in Ne-Yo's 2006 single "So Sick" and Jamie Foxx's 2005 single "Unpredictable". "Check on It" won the Best R&B Video at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards. It was also nominated for Video of the Year at the 2006 BET Awards. ==Live performances==

Although Beyoncé did not perform "Check on It" on televised appearances, it was a part of her set list on The Beyoncé Experience at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and I Am... World Tour during various stops. In Los Angeles, Beyoncé performed segments of the song, dressed in a golden, translucent slip and golden, sparkling panties. It was executed without backup dancers or live instrumentation, only backup singers toward the performance's conclusion. When Beyoncé performed the song in Sunrise, Florida on June 29, 2009, she was wearing a glittery, golden leotard. As she sang, animated graphics of turntables, faders and other club equipment were projected behind Beyoncé, her dancers and musicians. "Check on It" was subsequently included as the sixteenth track and the twentieth track on her live albums The Beyoncé Experience Live (2007), and I Am... World Tour (2010) respectively. Beyoncé also performed the song as part of her acclaimed performance at Coachella in April 2018. ==Formats and track listings==

• International remixes EP (feat. Bun B & Slim Thug) • "Check on It" – 3:30 • "Check on It" (Junior Vasquez Club Mix) – 8:31 • "Check on It" (Maurice's Nu Soul Mix) – 5:59 • "Check on It" (King Klub Mix) – 6:48 • "Check on It" (Bama Boyz Remix) – 3:54 • Canada and Europe single (feat. Slim Thug) • "Check on It" – 3:31 • "Check on It" (No Rap Version) – 3:08 • US single (feat. Voltio) • "Check on It" (Bama Boyz Reggaeton Remix) – 3:28 • "Check on It" (Bama Boyz Reggaeton Remix Instrumental) – 3:28 ==Personnel==

Credits are lifted from the official booklet of ''#1's and B'Day''. • Vocals – Beyoncé Knowles, Slim Thug, Bun B • Background Vocals - Kelly Rowland (uncredited), Michelle Williams (uncredited) • Songwriting – Beyoncé Knowles, Angela Beyince, Swizz Beatz, Sean Garrett, Slim Thug • Production – Beyoncé Knowles, Swizz Beatz • Vocal production – Beyoncé Knowles • Recording engineers – Jim Caruana, Nathan Jenkins • Assistance – Geoffrey Rice, Matt Serrecchio • Mix engineering – Dave Pensado, Dexter Simmons ==Charts==

Weekly charts Year-end charts Decade-end charts ==Certifications==