Excuse Me Miss

"Excuse Me Miss"
Single by Jay-Z
from the album The Blueprint 2: The Gift & the Curse
Released	February 4, 2003 (2003-02-04)
Studio	Baseline (New York City) Master Sound (Virginia Beach, Virginia)
Genre	Hip hop
Length	4:41 (album version) 3:58 (radio edit)
Label	Roc-A-Fella Def Jam
Songwriter(s)	Shawn Carter Pharrell Williams Chad Hugo
Producer(s)	The Neptunes
Jay-Z singles chronology
"Hovi Baby" (2002) "Excuse Me Miss" (2003) "Crazy in Love" (2003)
Pharrell singles chronology
"Beautiful" (2003) "Excuse Me Miss" (2003) "Belly Dancer" (2003)

"Excuse Me Miss" is a song by American rapper Jay-Z. It released through his Roc-A-Fella Records and Def Jam Recordings on February 4, 2003, as a single for his seventh studio album The Blueprint 2: The Gift & the Curse (2002). It was also written alongside producers the Neptunes, whose Pharrell Williams sings the hook in falsetto voice (uncredited). The lyrics refer to love at first sight. It contains a more mature sound in comparison of his previous songs about women such as "Girls, Girls, Girls" and "I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)". The song samples Prince's 1990 song "Walk Don't Walk," the 2001 hit, "Take You Out" by Luther Vandross as well as "Big Poppa" by the Notorious B.I.G.

"Excuse Me Miss" was the third and final single from The Blueprint 2: The Gift & the Curse and was successful commercially. It peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Billboard R&B chart in April, and was nominated for Best Rap Song at the 46th Grammy Awards but lost to Eminem's "Lose Yourself".^[1] The music video for the single was released in early February 2003.

The sequel to "Excuse Me Miss" was "La-La-La (Excuse Me Miss Again)" with a noticeably darker beat and lyrics, and was also produced by the Neptunes. The song was later re-released with "Stop" as a single for 2003's The Blueprint 2.1.