Songfacts®:

• "Take What You Want" finds Post Malone and Travis Scott addressing heartbreak. Malone takes the first verse, in which he recounts falling for a girl who was callous towards his feelings.
  
  And all I ever asked was for the truth
  You showed your tongue and it was forked in two
  Your venom was lethal, I almost believed you
  
  Malone portrays the girl as a deceitful snake; a "forked tongue" is a metaphor for untruthfulness.
  
  Scott also receives verbal abuse from his girl. In addition, she is not to be trusted, smoking crack and sleeping with the rapper's homies.
  
  Give her that pipe
  All of my gang
  Shawty went bad
• The song features Ozzy Osbourne's power ballad-esque vocals on the hook. The Black Sabbath frontman portrays himself as a victim of an abusing woman.
  
  I feel you crumble in my arms down to your heart of stone
  You bled me dry just like the tears you never show
  Why don't you take what you want from me?
• Post Malone and Travis Scott previously worked together when both were featured on DJ Khaled's Father of Asahd track "Celebrate." Neither artist had collaborated with Ozzy Osbourne before.
• Post Malone has often expressed his fondness for rock; his very first foray into professional music was as a teenager in a heavy metal band. The rapper has since performed onstage with Aerosmith at the 2018 VMAs and with the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the 2019 Grammys.
  
  The collaboration with Osbourne came about through Malone's frequent producer Andrew Watt. Malone explained on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 show that the producer told him Ozzy wanted to do a song with him, but he didn't believe it would actually happen. Watt then told the Texan that the metal singer was dropping by his home. He recorded Ozzy's vocals there, then FaceTimed them to Malone.
  
  According to the rapper, Osbourne was so happy with his collaboration he said it was his "favorite" work since his original run with Black Sabbath.
• Speaking on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Sharon Osbourne explained that it was her daughter, Kelly, who knows Andrew Watt. It was she who linked her father up with Post's producer. Sharon added that Ozzy's contribution came together in no time at all. "Literally, it took like 30 minutes," she said.
• The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at #8, marking Osbourne's first Hot 100 Top 10 entry in three decades. His previous visit to the Top 10 had been in 1989 when "Close My Eyes Forever," the Prince of Darkness' duet with Lita Ford, peaked at #8.
  
  The 30 years and three month gap between the Black Sabbath singer's two Top 10 entries isn't the longest. When Burl Ives' "Holly Jolly Christmas" reached #10 on the chart dated January 5, 2019, it was his first Top 10 entry since "Funny Way Of Laughin'" in 1962, 56-and-a-half years earlier.
• Ozzy Osbourne joined Post Malone to perform "Take What You Want" during his November 21, 2019 gig at the Forum in Los Angeles. It was their first-ever live rendition of the song.
• Ozzy and Travis Scott teamed up with Post Malone to perform this at the 2019 American Music Awards, where Hollywood's Bleeding won for Best Rap/Hip-Hop album.
• Andrew Watt contributed the guitar solo after Post Malone urged him to play one as if it's a real Ozzy song. "Every Ozzy song has a great guitar solo, right," Watt told Billboard. "Like, classic. Whether it's Randy Rhoads or Zakk Wylde or the stuff with [Black] Sabbath or Jake E. Lee, later, you know. You wanna hear the solos. It was Post's encouragement."