Nicki Minaj has given her Pink Friday 2 hit “FTCU” a star-studded makeover with help from Travis Scott, Chris Brown and Sexyy Red.
Released on Friday (April 19), the “Sleezemix” pairs Nicki’s original second verse with new lyrics from La Flame, Breezy and the “Pound Town” hitmaker.
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Injecting some raunchiness into the speaker-slapping club anthem, Travis raps: “She gon’ think I popped a pill ’cause I fucked her ’til she burst/ Yeah, let me see you work/ Can you twerk, can you squirt?/ All this money on me soon as I hit the club, they get alert.”
Breezy keeps pulses racing by bragging about sleeping with an OnlyFans star while Sexyy closes things out by reminding listeners she isn’t to be played with.
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“In the club, fucked up, hoes muggin’, I’ll beat you ass/ Who think they can fuck with Sexyy?/ I be hangin’ with them shooters, so like why would you test me?/ Yeah, I’m a bad bitch, but this shit can get messy/ I ain’t gotta lift a finger, I just look at my bestie,” she warns.
Listen to “FTCU (Sleezemix)” below.
Nicki Minaj teased the remix earlier this month during a social media exchange with Sexxy Red.
“You got your verse for #FTCU? Finna drop the remix. “Left #PoundTown to go #FTCU,” she tweeted at the 25-year-old.
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Referring to their “Pound Town 2” collaboration with Tay Keith last year, Nicki added: “a remix for a remix ?????”
The Young Money rapper is also no stranger to working with Chris Brown having collaborated on songs like “Right By My Side” and “Love More” in the past, while her fellow Pink Friday 2 cut “Pink Birthday” samples Travis Scott’s “Pornography.”
Back in January, Nicki revealed that “FTCU” was originally meant for Drake’s For All the Dogs and was an early favorite of J. Cole’s when she played him material from her latest album.
“After I played him [‘Let Me Calm Down’ which features Cole], I played him ‘FTCU,’” she told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “I was like, ‘Yo, I don’t like playing my music, but I’ll let you hear another song.’ So I played him that. And when that second verse came in, his reaction is why that song is so high [on the tracklist].
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“Because Drake had originally loved that song. While he was working on his album, he was thinking about if that could fit for his album as well. Because I sent it to him when I did it, because I loved the beat. But I wasn’t sure about the chorus.”
She continued: “So then when J. Cole was listening to it and he was bopping, and then the, ‘High heels on…’ When that dude was saying goodbye and that shit dropped. If you would’ve seen him, it was the dopest fucking thing.
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“He looked at me and he said, ‘I’ve never heard anything like that before.’ […] But that’s what made me go, ‘Oh, this is something that I should just leave alone.’ And you know what I said to him?
“I said, ‘Yeah, I like the song. I know I bodied the verse and I know the beat is hard as fuck, but I don’t like the chorus.’ I was like, ‘Because you wouldn’t be able to play it on radio.’ He was like, ‘Who cares?’ He was like, ‘Man, fuck the radio.’”
