"Baby Boy" was the second single of Beyoncé's solo debut album, Dangerously In Love. It features Jamaican artist Sean Paul and was also featured on his second studio album, Dutty Rock. Fresh off the heels of "Crazy in Love", her first single, "Baby Boy" quickly shot up the charts, and the song was in the top ten while "Crazy in Love" was still number one on the Hot 100. "Baby Boy" rose to number one after only a four week gap between it and "Crazy in Love". The song topped both the''Billboard'' Hot 100 for 9 weeks and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for several weeks. The song was also strong on all major radio airplay formats, also hitting number one on the Hot 100 Airplay, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay,Top 40 Tracks, Top 40 Mainstream, and the Rhythmic Top 40. Because of the song's high level of airplay, it broke the record for the highest number of impressions in a week (as measured by BDS). Beyoncé held the record for the highest amount of audience impressions in a week for a female artist, until Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" broke her record. "Baby boy" eventually spent 9 weeks at #1 on the hot 100, one week longer than "Crazy in love" had spent at the summit, which made "baby boy" at that point, Beyonce's highest charting single to date.


The single was co-written by Beyoncé, Scott Storch, Robert Waller, Sean Paul, and Jay-Z, and produced by Beyoncé and Storch. Although he does not perform on the record, Beyoncé's boyfriend Jay-Z (who had worked with her on her previous single, "Crazy in Love") is given co-writing credit for lyrical contributions. In this Middle Eastern/reggae hybrid, Beyoncé becomes enraptured by the thought of a man who haunts her, yet turns her on, as she cries "Baby Boy, you stay on my mind, fulfill my fantasies...". An alternative version of the song, in which the song structure and Sean Paul's raps are left intact, while Beyoncé sings completely different lyrics, was leaked to the Internet in 2003. "Baby Boy"
realeased in he U.S. on September 9, 2003 was recorded in South Beach Studios in Miami, Florida.