Thique

Album: Renaissance (2022)
Charted: 53
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Songfacts®:

  • "Thique" is a dubstep-inflected hip-hop track where Beyoncé flexes her curvy, voluptuous figure, especially her "thique" (thick) booty. Queen Bey has history for celebrating her ample rear, dating back to Destiny's Child's 2001 single "Bootylicious."
  • Beyoncé wrote "Thique" with Jabber "Bah" Stevens, Cherdericka Nichols, Chauncey "Hit-Boy" Hollis, Ink, LilJuMadeDaBeat and The-Dream.

    The-Dream contributed towards 14 out of Renaissance's 16 tracks; Stevens and Nichols also co-wrote "All Up in Your Mind"; and Ink worked on "Alien Superstar" and "Summer Renaissance."
  • Hit-Boy produced "Thique" with co-production by LilJuMadeDaBeat and additional production by Ink and engineer Stuart White. Hip-hop producer Hit-Boy is Beyoncé's go-to collaborator for her rap-flavored songs, including "Sorry" and "Flawless."
  • Beyoncé and Hit-Boy originally put together "Thique" back in 2014. At the time, Hit-Boy's seductive house beat was a major departure for Beyoncé; she came up with a few ideas for it, then put it aside. At some point in the early 2020s, Beyoncé picked up the track again and developed it into this song.

    "I had to sit on that beat for eight years!" he told a Rolling Stone podcast. "That's the way the game goes sometimes. I've had a lot of ups and downs in the game and certain people will perceive like, 'Oh, where's Hit-Boy been? What's Hit-Boy been doing?' But then I'm sitting on stuff like 'Thique' that just hasn't materialized yet."

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