"Where I Wanna Be" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Shade Sheist featuring Nate Dogg and Kurupt.

Written by Tramayne Thompson (Shade Sheist), Nathaniel Hale (Nate Dogg), Ricardo Brown (Kurupt), Edward Berkeley, Keir Lamont Gist (Kay Gee of Naughty by Nature), Derek Bush and Robert L. Huggar, "Where I Wanna Be" was first featured on the Damizza Presents Where I Wanna Be compilation album, which Shade Sheist and Damizza executive produced.

[2] In a mixed review, AllMusic's Dean Carlson gave the song two-and-a-half starts out of five, stating: "Shade Sheist's 'Where I Wanna Be' hoped to resurrect the forgotten art of summer hip-hop.

It was from there, with Nate Dogg and Kurupt chasing each other's slow rhymes at the wayside, that 'Where I Wanna Be' eventually became a sort of heat-induced muscle relaxant this side of De La Soul's "A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays"" or Black Eyed Peas' "Magic", if only substituting their pleasantries for suspiciously placed arrogance.

It was an unworkable contradiction when it came down to it, but 'Where I Wanna Be' became the number one rap single for four months in America and went on to crack the British Top 20 the following summer".