The recording commonly sought as “Bk Brasco feat. Handsome Balla I Wanna” has an official title: “I Want Her.” Its complete retail billing is BK Brasco featuring Remo the Hitmaker and Handsome Balla. It was released as a one-track hip-hop single in April 2015.
The “I Wanna” wording comes from a provocative promotional parenthetical attached to artist-controlled and third-party posts: “I Wanna Fuck Rihanna.” It was not a Rihanna song, did not feature Rihanna and should not be confused with a leak from her then-anticipated eighth album. The parenthetical acted as an attention-grabbing gloss on the record’s fantasy; established digital retailers omit it from the canonical title.
This distinction resolves the central archival confusion. An old forum headline abbreviated the phrase to “I Wanna .... Rihanna,” while other uploads placed the slogan after “I Want Her.” Once detached from its original context, that fragment could look like the name of a collaboration or an unreleased Rihanna recording. The commercial metadata supports neither interpretation.
The verified release
Apple Music’s single page lists “I Want Her (feat. Remo the Hitmaker & Handsome Balla)” under BK Brasco’s name. It dates the release to April 21, 2015, describes it as a four-minute hip-hop/rap track and assigns the phonographic copyright to “Bk Brasco/Remo the Hitmaker.”
The Korean service Bugs preserves a more complicated distribution trail. Its BK Brasco catalogue contains April 20 and April 21 versions, plus an April 16 entry labeled cancelled and unavailable. That does not prove the song itself was ultimately cancelled: the authorized retail single plainly exists. It more likely reflects replaced deliveries or territory-specific metadata, a common occurrence when an independent distributor corrects artist order, rights data or release configuration.
April 21 is therefore the strongest publication date. It is the date attached to the surviving Apple release and to the version that remained commercially legible. April 20 may represent an earlier territorial availability, while April 16 belongs to a withdrawn catalogue entry rather than the definitive public edition.
The credits that can be stated with confidence are correspondingly limited. BK Brasco is the primary artist. Remo the Hitmaker and Handsome Balla are both featured artists in the official title. Remo is identified as producer in the title used on BK Brasco’s own upload, and the Apple copyright line jointly names BK Brasco and Remo. No reliable public liner-note or repertory entry located for the single supplies a complete songwriting split, engineering staff or mastering credit. Those details should remain unassigned rather than inferred from stage names.
What the artist-controlled upload establishes
BK Brasco’s own SoundCloud profile retains the track under the expanded promotional wording and credits Remo as producer. Because the account presents itself as BK Brasco’s artist page, it is materially different from anonymous download mirrors that later copied the file. It documents how the record was marketed around its release without making the subtitle the formal retail name.
The page also describes Brasco as a Timbaland-affiliated artist from Brooklyn. Contemporary reporting supports at least that professional context. In 2013, The Source introduced him through the single “Every Bag,” noted his work with Timbaland and positioned him as a developing Brooklyn artist. That history places “I Want Her” within an independent run of singles rather than an official Rihanna campaign.
Remo the Hitmaker brought a recognizable New York rap and R&B résumé. By 2015 he was widely associated with records including G-Eazy’s “I Mean It,” on which he received a production credit. His presence on “I Want Her” is unusually visible: he is both named as a featured artist and identified as producer in the artist-posted title. The formal billing therefore should not be shortened to BK Brasco featuring Handsome Balla alone, even though numerous reposts did exactly that.
Why Rihanna became the headline
The record turns celebrity desire into a hook and publicity device. Rihanna’s name offers instant cultural shorthand for beauty, status and sexual fantasy. In the mid-2010s, when discussion around her next album was exceptionally intense, attaching that name to a title or hashtag could pull an independent track into searches far beyond the artists’ existing audiences.
That strategy also created durable misinformation. A forum reader encountering an embedded player alongside “I Wanna .... Rihanna” could reasonably assume the missing word had been censored, but not necessarily understand whether Rihanna performed, was sampled or was merely mentioned. Retail data now clarifies that she was not in the artist credit. There is also no documented indication in the surviving official metadata that the record sampled a Rihanna master or interpolated one of her compositions.
The proper journalistic formulation is consequently narrow: the track referenced Rihanna in an explicit promotional subtitle and lyrical premise. It was not “featuring Rihanna,” not a Rihanna leak and not evidence of a planned collaboration. Her celebrity was the subject of the framing, not a documented creative contribution.
The Handsome Balla overlap
Another recording makes the confusion easier to understand. Handsome Balla released “Love Her Anyway” during the same period. Shazam’s catalogue entry dates that single to May 4, 2015, names ZCMG as label and credits Kareem Alexander as songwriter. Its lyrics repeatedly compare the central woman to Rihanna and draw on several titles and images associated with her career.
“Love Her Anyway” is a separate Handsome Balla solo recording, not an alternate title for “I Want Her.” A surviving artist upload appears to have circulated in February 2015 with “Rihanna” in its description, before the formal May catalogue date. That sequence may have encouraged bloggers and listeners to treat the two tracks as parts of one loosely connected Rihanna-themed campaign.
The distinction is visible in the credits. “I Want Her” is led by BK Brasco and features Remo plus Handsome Balla. “Love Her Anyway” is credited to Handsome Balla, with Kareem Alexander documented as writer. The songs share an artist, a release season and a celebrity reference, but their official titles and primary artists differ.
A 2017 review from Sleeping Bag Studios discussed “Love Her Anyway” as a Handsome Balla track built around a woman who is explicitly not Rihanna. Although written two years later, that review is useful corroboration of how the solo song’s premise was understood; it does not provide credits for BK Brasco’s single.
A record shaped by search-era provocation
Musically, “I Want Her” belongs to an era of New York-adjacent rap and melodic R&B in which repeated vocal phrases, spacious programmed drums and a blunt central proposition were expected to do immediate work. Its four-minute length leaves room for multiple voices, but the marketing reduces everything to one recognizable desire. That assessment is interpretation; the verified facts remain the official title, artist order, release date and producer attribution preserved by the artist.
The explicit subtitle can be read as opportunistic, objectifying or simply characteristic of a strain of mixtape-era promotion. What is indisputable is its effectiveness as metadata: it survived in old headlines after the surrounding player vanished, while the more conventional title “I Want Her” became harder to reconstruct.
Later coverage sometimes reproduced the same hashtag. A 2018 SpitFireHipHop article linked back to the track using both the official name and the explicit Rihanna phrase, demonstrating that the two labels continued to circulate together years after release.
The accurate catalogue entry is nonetheless uncomplicated: “I Want Her,” by BK Brasco featuring Remo the Hitmaker and Handsome Balla, released in April 2015. The provocative addendum belongs to its promotional history. Rihanna belongs to its premise. Neither should be allowed to overwrite the people who actually made and released the record.