She Will

Album: Tha Carter IV (2011)
Charted: 58 3
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Songfacts®:

  • This ode to a willing woman and diatribe against haters features Drake part singing and part rapping the chorus. The T-Minus-produced slow groover is a track from Wayne's Tha Carter IV album.
  • A DJ Scoob Doo shot video went online shortly before the release of Tha Carter IV revealing behind-the-scenes footage of the duo recording the song. It shows Wayne previewing his verses to Drake via video instant message before he turns over his own. "I went stupid in there," Weezy says to the Toronto MC. "I don't know what I said, but I made it different." "Yeah, that s--t is crazy," replies Drake.
  • Wayne wrote this song after he'd returned home from his eight months prison sentence on weapons possession charges. Cash Money President Mack Maine told MTV News that Weezy conceptualized Tha Carter IV in three stages: pre-prison, in-prison and post-prison. "I don't think he would've did 'She Will' or 'So Special' right before he went in," Maine said of his more female-friendly tracks. "That wasn't where his mind was at, but all in all, you got some of Wayne before he went in, you actually got some of Wayne while he was in there, and you got some when he came out. So you got three different sides of Wayne."
  • The song trended on TikTok in early 2025 thanks to a dance trend with the dancer performing leg-shaking moves often up against a wall.

Comments: 2

  • JayThe play on words is brilliant. My favorite lyric line:
    “I'm all about "I" give the rest of the vowels back” To me the message of the song is the importance of self preservation and self-respect. As a man I think a relationship needs to have genuine love, loyalty, honesty,trust and clear communication for the boundaries of the other person. The singer to me is saying don’t turn a blind eye to the red flags look beyond the service level glittery bulls--t. We tend to turn a blind eye on illusions we wish to create and let s--t that doesn’t jive with our values, morals or self respect slip by just to have our “egos” and “pride” fed. In reality we need to remain sovereign and stand tall in the face of adversity while choosing to walk away from people that don’t have your best interest at heart. This goes for women as well don’t ignore the red flags because that s--t will be doomed to fail if you do this goes for anyone’s day to day mental well being as well. We as people as a whole don’t deserve any f--king bread crumbs and surface level bs. A person man or woman deserve a mf that will lay it down on the table instead of BSing. We can embellish s--t but it will still remain s--t if we choose to turn a blind eye.
  • Zulma J Rodriguez from Newark Nj My interpretation is he is talking about his gun, just like Tupac did n referred to his in his song as "Me n My Girlfriend"
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