Light My Body Up

Album: single release only (2017)
Charted: 64
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Songfacts®:

  • This electro-infused song features vocals by Nicki Minaj and a playful third verse courtesy of Lil Wayne. When Minaj sent the first edit of her vocals to Guetta, she was singing all the way through. However after the French DJ's daughter heard the demo she asked her father "why isn't Nicki rapping on it too?" Guetta then asked Minaj to rap her vocals rather than croon them.
  • It took Minaj just a quarter of an hour to write her rhymes before she was ready to record them with co-producer Julien Martinez. She recalled: "It's a freestyle mostly being funny playing around. Soon as Juice left, I texted him 15 mins later said I'm ready."
  • Lil Wayne's Auto-Tuned verse was an unexpected bonus for Guetta. Minaj explained: "I was on it then decided to ask Wayne. He said yes, did it right away. Then I sent it to David as a surprise."
  • This marked the fourth time David Guetta and Nicki Minaj have worked together on a song. Their previously collaborations were 2011's "Where Them Girls At" and "Turn Me On" plus "Hey Mama" which they recorded three years later.

    Guetta previously worked with Lil Wayne on the 2011 song "I Can Only Imagine."
  • Although her target remains unnamed, it's likely fans will read the opening lines to Minaj's heavy first verse as being another stab at her nemesis Remy Ma following her diss track "No Frauds."

    Yo, I just started my sentence like a capital letter
    Got bars for years, I hope you send me a letter
    Know she'll never be queen, so now she got a vendetta
    I ain't talkin' 'bout David when I say I'ma Guetta
    .

    Minaj's verse rhymes appear to be digs at Ma's six-year stint in prison for shooting Makeda Barnes Joseph in 2007, as well as the comparative commercial failure of Remi's album with Fat Joe, Plata O Plomo.

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