Whatchamacallit
by Ella Mai (featuring Chris Brown)

Album: Ella Mai (2018)
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Songfacts®:

  • Over DJ Mustard's bouncy production, Ella Mai and Chris Brown sing about their secret plans to hook up and cheat on their lovers.

    I know you got a girlfriend, baby
    You know that I got a man
    We could wait until we're single
    But it won't be as fun then


    The pair acknowledge that what they're doing is wrong, but the naughtiness of what they're doing only further fuels their attraction.
  • Chris Brown was a fan of Ella Mai before "Boo'd Up" blew up. This collaboration came about after Breezy followed Mai on Instagram, so she reached out to him.
  • A video of Chris Brown and Ella Mai performing the song was originally uploaded in September 2017. At that time it was titled "Cheating (Right Now)."
  • The pair also collaborated on "This X-Mas" a bonus track from the deluxe edition of Chris Brown's Heartbreak on a Full Moon album.

Comments: 1

  • Zatsuki Bakuto from Tokyo, JapanI love this song with a passion, its actually how I and now gf met, in a random club with this song blasting in our booth^^
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