Hope She Cheats on You (With a Basketball Player)

Album: Late Nights & Early Mornings (2010)
Charted: 88
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Songfacts®:

  • Marsha Ambrosius is a former member of the English hip hop/soul duo Floetry, who had a #24 Hot 100 in 2002 with "Say Yes." After the pair went their separate ways Marsha signed to J Records and released this song as her debut solo single on August 17, 2010.
  • Written and produced by Marsha and Canei, the song is, as Marsha describes, "the reality of a bad break up. We wanna be decent human beings and say the right thing, you know, 'I wish you well.' But this is 'Everything that could go wrong for him I want it to because my ego is bruised and I'm acting out."
  • Before coming to America, Ambrosius was one of Great Britain's top female basketball players. She met her Floetry partner Natalie Stewart through their mutual love of the sport.

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