Songfacts®:

• "Fat Juicy & Wet" is the kind of song that makes you blink twice and wonder if Bruno Mars has finally gone off the rails or just reinvented himself for the 117th time. Released on January 24, 2025, this raunchy party anthem sees Mars teaming up with St. Louis rapper Sexyy Red for what can only be described as a strip club banger of epic proportions. Think Bruno's usual velvety charm but tossed into a blender with Sexyy Red's explicit rhymes about the quality of her lady parts.
• Mars teased the track on Instagram, calling it his attempt at a "strip club anthem," which is exactly the sort of thing you'd expect someone to say just before they drop a song called "Fat Juicy & Wet." The lyrics are a call-and-response masterclass in dirty talk, with Mars confessing he's powerless to resist Sexyy Red's, ahem, charms.
• While this might seem like a wild leap from Bruno's usual catalog of polished pop gems, let's not pretend this is his first foray into the risqué. Remember 2012's "Gorilla"? That sultry ode to "good old animalistic sex" came complete with a steamy music video set in a seedy south-of-the-border strip club. Then there's 2016's seductive slow jam "Versace on the Floor." And who could forget "Please Me," his 2019 collaboration with Cardi B, where the pair promise each other a night of intimacy? No, Mars has been circling this particular drain for years.
• The song sees Mars continuing his long-standing collaboration with The Stereotypes, the production team who've been in his corner since his pre-superstardom days. Together, they've churned out a string of hits, including "That's What I Like," which won the 2018 Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Best R&B Song.
• Just prior to the song's release, Mars topped the charts with "Die With A Smile," a swoony ballad with Lady Gaga that could not be further from "Fat Juicy & Wet" if it tried, while his Rosé duet "APT." was also tearing up playlists.
  
  Sexyy Red was on a roll as well, with standout tracks like "Whatchu Kno About Me" (with GloRilla) and "Sticky" (with Tyler, the Creator, GloRilla, and Lil Wayne).
• The music video, directed by Mars alongside Daniel Ramos, leans into the song's sultry energy with tongue-in-cheek flair. We see Mars and Sexyy Red in matching black suits, popping champagne against a sultry red backdrop. Mars ropes in his recent collaborators Lady Gaga and Rosé - also attired in matching black suits - for cameo appearances.
• When Bruno Mars sings, "Make me throw up a set," he's referring to a hand signal used to represent a divison (set) of a gang. Cypress Hill made a whole song about this activity called "Throw Your Set In The Air."
  
  Bruno was never in a gang, which he tells us in the song:
  
  I don't even gangbang, p---y so good