Songfacts®:

• Yeat recorded this track for Minions: The Rise of Gru, a prequel to the Despicable Me animated family movie series. The film explains how the yellow childlike Minions started working for former supervillain Gru.
• Music critics commonly refer to Portland-raised Yeat's music as "rage rap." Inspired by Playboi Carti and others of a similar ilk, "rage rap" features synthy beats and braggadocios ad-libbed lyrics. The underground style is a million miles from the typical radio-friendly song done for a family movie. So how come Yeat recorded this track for Minions: The Rise of Gru? The answer lies with video director Cole Bennett. A longtime Yeat supporter, when the Rise of Gru filmmakers asked Bennett to direct a trailer or the film, he convinced them to have the rapper on the soundtrack.
• On "Rich Minion," Yeat raps about making a song for a Minions movie and how they paid him mad money. At first, he asserts the filmmakers paid him $1 million for his contributions, before revising his claim and stating they handed over $2 million.
• As well as boasting about his payday, Yeat also reveals his close connection with the Minions, calling them his children. He also expresses his hate for Victor "Vector" Perkins, a villainous character from 2010's Despicable Me.
• The Minions contribute to the track in their own unique language, which is basically unintelligible.
  
  Ha Huh?, hey Mel, la bastichi
  La papaya, du la potato Yeah, la potato, oh, yeah
  
  Yeat sampled the lines from a scene in Despicable Me 3.
• Hip-hop producer LOTTO created the beat. He first came to light with his production for Mick Jenkins' track "Perception."