Don't Even Call
by Swae Lee (featuring Rich The Kid)

Album: Same Difference (2026)
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Songfacts®:

  • On "Don't Even Call," the second single from his 2026 solo album, Same Difference, Swae Lee is giving up on a one-sided relationship where the other person only reaches out when it's convenient. "Wanna hit me 'cause you know it was a payday," he calls her out in the intro.

    He puts his phone on Do Not Disturb and goes partying with fellow rapper Rich the Kid, a guest performer on the track, and warns his ex, "Don't even call tonight."
  • Swae Lee and Rich the Kid previously collaborated on "Gargoyle" from Rich the Kid's 2018 debut album, The World Is Yours.
  • The solo album coincides with a revival of some of Swae's classic hits he recorded with his brother as the hip-hop duo Rae Sremmurd. While the singles "Flammable" and "Don't Even Call" were dropping ahead of the album's release, the duo's 2016 chart-topper "Black Beatles" earned a Diamond certification for 10 million copies sold in the US. The renewed interest in their early catalog was part of a broader social media trend about nostalgia for 2016 pop culture, with the hashtag #BringBack2016 sweeping TikTok and Instagram.
  • Atlanta-based producer J-Bo, who previously worked with Rae Sremmurd, served as lead producer on the track, with Swae and the Dutch hitmakers Saint Luca and The Sky Beats also on the production roster.

    In 2023, J-Bo was putting out requests for cinematic loops on social media when he connected with Saint Luca, which got the melodic-rap track rolling. "He sent a crazy pack through, I added drums to a few of them and sent those off to Swae in the beginning of 2024. He sent back two records and I knew this was one of them ones. About a year later Swae hit me and had added Rich on it," he explained.
  • The music video, co-directed by Swae and Michael Gilbert, follows Swae and Rich the Kid's exploits at a nightclub and a mansion party surrounded by sexy ladies. Gilbert also directed the video for Rae Sremmurd's 2023 single "Not So Bad (Leans Gone Cold)."

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