" You Make Me Wan na ... " won Usher the '' Billboard '' award for Pop Singer of the Year , and the Best R&B / Soul Single , Male category at the 1998 Soul Train Music Awards . Radio station WQHT awarded it the title of Best R&B Song at its inaugural Hip Hop Awards . The singer also received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for the song at the 40th Grammy Awards , but lost to . In the 1997 Pazz & Jop critics ' poll administered by '' The Village Voice '' , " You Make Me Wan na ... " tied for thirtieth place in the singles category with Radiohead 's " Paranoid Android "
1998 Soul Train Music Awards
1998 Soul Train Music Awards
You Make Me Wanna...