Peak
8
Weeks
24
Score
4,520
Chart Year
2015
The official video (directed by John Ryan) was released on 19 May 2015. The video begins with Guetta walking through a desert with a group of people to find a machine inside the box. Scenes of a holographic Minaj intercut the video while other scenes include other people being shrouded in curtains and dancing while during the chorus, Guetta and the others are seen driving in their vehicles through the desert. During the chorus and bridge, everyone goes crazy while Minaj raps. The video ends with a video of a couple of sharks swimming around the underwater in the picture and to where the people dive through a neon heart light. The video ends with Guetta standing in the desert.[16] Afrojack also appears in the video. As of August 2019, the video has received over 1.4 billion views.[17][18] It is Guetta's and Rexha's most viewed video, and Minaj's fourth.
This island-flavored EDM tune finds David Guetta linking up again with Nicki Minaj. The Frenchman and New York femcee previously worked together on the hit tunes "Turn Me On" and "Where Them Girls At." Minaj sings and raps here about being a perfect partner for her beau: I'll do the cooking, yes I'll do the cleaning Plus I keep the na-na, real sweet, for your eating Yes you be the boss, and yes I be respecting Whatever that you tell me, cause it's game you be spitting Minaj told Complex magazine during an interview around the time of this song's release that she hopes she "will have walked down the aisle" by the time of her fifth album. Not only that, the Queens MC added she will "at least be on baby number one," by then, "possibly baby number two." The bedrock of the song is a sample of "Rosie," a song by C.B. "88" Cook recorded by the folk archivist Alan Lomax in 1948 at Parchman Farm state prison. Songwriter Esther Dean first showed Guetta the clip on YouTube. "When Esther played me that sample, I was like: 'Oh my God, I love this so much,'" Guetta explained to The Guardian newspaper. "I fell so in love that I became obsessed with it and wanted it to be the chorus." After tinkering with its structure, Guetta realized the sample worked best as an opening to the track, supporting a different chorus he concocted. Afrojack and Ester Dean helped Guetta with the Caribbean-inflected production that accompanies native Trinidadian Nicki Minaj's rapping and singing. The "Beating my drum like, dum di di day..." section comes courtesy of Bebe Rexha, who wrote it and provided the vocals. The Staten Island native previously featured on EDM group Cash Cash's 2013 hit single "Take Me Home" and developed a reputation as a song "fixer" - someone who could add the missing piece. Guetta asked her to come by the studio to see what she could do with this track, and in minutes she came up with the hook. Rexha didn't think much of it, but the song became a big hit. Just one problem: she wasn't credited as a featured artist on the song along with Minaj and Afrojack (she was officially featured on another Listen cut "Yesterday"). Rexha was told that adding her name would make it bloated, but when it became clear that listeners were mistaking her vocals for Minaj's, she lobbied for feature status and got it. When word got out about her work on "Hey Mama," it impelled her career as both a songwriter and singer. Soon after, she worked on G-Eazy's "Me, Myself & I" and Iggy Azalea's "Team." The Hannah Lux Davis-directed video was shot in a lakebed in El Mirage, California. We see David Guetta and Afrojack drag race in dune buggies, as well as the French DJ and. his posse of traveling companions stumble upon some kind of hologram machine in the desert. The contraption gives life to a Nicki Minaj projection, who appears with her iconic pink hair. Minaj filmed her part in Europe, where she was touring. The intention of the video was to fuse the worlds of the dystopian Mad Max movies and the communal festival Burning Man. "I'm always really inspired by music festivals and the fashion that follows with that," director Hannah Lux Davis said to Billboard magazine of the avant-garde futuristic attire seen in the clip. "And Burning Man was something that felt like the energy of the song." Speaking with MTV UK, Guetta admitted that Minaj's dedication to her work can prove a little grating. "Nicki, she's such a perfectionist it's incredible. Like she really, she drove me a little crazy," he said. "At the end the result is incredible because like she would really call me with little details but at the end if you add this detail plus this one plus this one, it does change the record," Guetta added. "And I think this record is going to be very, very big." The song plays during the trailer of the 2016 comedy movie Bad Moms.
Be my woman, girl, I'mma Be your man Be my woman, girl, I'll Be your man Yes I be your woman Yes I be your baby Yes I be whatever that you tell me when you ready Yes I be your girl, forever your lady You ain't never gotta worry, I'm down for you baby Best believe that when you need that I'll provide that you will always have it I'll be on deck keep it in check When you need that I'mma let you have it You beatin' drum like dum di di dey I love the dirty rhythm you play I wanna hear you calling my name Like hey mama mama hey mama mama (Hey) Banging the drum like dum di di dey I know you want it in the worst way I wanna hear you calling my name Like hey mama mama hey mama mama (Hey) Be my woman, girl, I'mma Be your man Be my woman, girl, I'll Be your man Yes I do the cooking Yes I do the cleaning Yes I keep the nana real sweet for your eating Yes you be the boss yes I be respecting Whatever that you tell me 'cause it's game you be spitting Best believe that when you need that I'll provide that you will always have it I'll be on deck keep it in check When you need that I'mma let you have it You beatin' my drum like dum di di dey I love the dirty rhythm you play I wanna hear you calling my name Like hey mama mama hey mama mama (Hey) Banging the drum like dum di di dey I know you want it in the worst way I wanna hear you calling my name Like hey mama mama hey mama mama (Hey) Be my woman, girl, I'mma Be your man Be my woman, girl, I'll Be your man Whole crew got the juice Your dick game the truth My screams is the proof Them other dudes get the deuce I might speed in the coupe Leaving this interview It ain't nothin' new, I been fuckin' with you None of them bitches ain't taking you, Just tell them to make a U (Make a U) Huh, that how it be, I come first like debuts, huh So baby when you need that, give me that word I'm no good, I'll be bad for my baby So I make sure that he's getting his share So I make sure that his baby take care So I make sure mama, toes on my knees Keep him, please, rub him down, be a lady and a freak You beatin' my drum like dum di di dey I love the dirty rhythm you play I wanna hear you calling my name Like hey mama mama hey mama mama (Hey) Banging the drum like dum di di dey I know you want it in the worst way I wanna hear you calling my name Like hey mama mama mama hey mama mama (Hey) Be my woman, girl, I'mma Be your man Be my woman, girl, I'll Be your man
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apr 11, 2015 | 70 | 56 |
| 2 | Apr 18, 2015 | 56 | 70 |
| 3 | Apr 25, 2015 | 44 | 82 |
| 4 | May 2, 2015 | 27 | 99 |
| 5 | May 9, 2015 | 19 | 107 |
| 6 | May 16, 2015 | 14 | 112 |
| 7 | May 23, 2015 | 13 | 113 |
| 8 | May 30, 2015 | 11 | 115 |
| 9 | Jun 6, 2015 | 8 | 118 |
| 10 | Jun 13, 2015 | 8 | 118 |
| 11 | Jun 20, 2015 | 8 | 118 |
| 12 | Jun 27, 2015 | 9 | 117 |
| 13 | Jul 4, 2015 | 8 | 118 |
| 14 | Jul 11, 2015 | 10 | 116 |
| 15 | Jul 18, 2015 | 9 | 117 |
| 16 | Jul 25, 2015 | 10 | 116 |
| 17 | Aug 1, 2015 | 11 | 115 |
| 18 | Aug 8, 2015 | 15 | 111 |
| 19 | Aug 15, 2015 | 18 | 108 |
| 20 | Aug 22, 2015 | 22 | 104 |