Senile

Album: Young Money: Rise of an Empire (2014)
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Songfacts®:

  • This dark, minimal track originally started as a single for Tyga, who first got Nicki Minaj featured on it, then his label boss Lil Wayne. "Originally it was just a joint from my album that I was gonna drop and I just heard Nicki on it, so I went to the studio where she was recording, I played it for her, and she was like, 'You should put Wayne on it, too,'" Tyga recalled.

    Due to Tyga's fourth studio album not coming out till later in 2014 they decided to include it on the Young Money compilation project.
  • Chicago-native producer David "DA" Doman (Tyga's "Do My Dance," Fabolous' "When I Feel Like It") supplied the beat. He told Vibe magazine: "Everybody killed their verses. Tyga brought back that low tone that he's famous for from 'Rack City.' Nicki absolutely murdered her verse too, she came really creative on it. Wayne went just totally crazy on the third verse."
  • Director Colin Tilley linked the Young Money boss with a different kind of family for the video. "It's just basically like some old Addams Family-type, trailer-park trash and Wayne is just like in these different houses going crazy," Tyga told MTV News.

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