Bottoms Up (feat. Nicki Minaj)

This is the first single from R&B singer-songwriter Trey Songz's fourth studio album, Passion, Pain & Pleasure. The song features Nicki Minaj, who hadn't yet released her first album but was already a big name, with features on "Knockout" by Lil Wayne, "My Chick Bad" by Ludacris and "2012 (It Ain't the End)" by Jay Sean.

Songz and Minaj broke down the creation of the song on his Ustream page. "I'm in L.A. for BET [Awards] weekend, I'm working on a couple records, and I do this song called 'Red Lipstick,' and then I do 'Bottoms Up' the next day," Songz recalled. "I hit Nicki and I'm like, 'Man, I've got these two incredible records, I think one of them is gonna be my first single, and I need you to do it. Can you come this weekend? Can you come down?' I stayed a couple extra days and she came through," he continued. "Two, three days later I got a verse back that was just stupid." Minaj noted that fans had been waiting for the two stars to team up. "Every day, people say, 'When you gonna collaborate with Trey?' For some strange reason they wanted to see that collaboration," Minaj said. "So, when you hit me, I was very excited. I just thought, 'This is our time.'"

Minaj revealed that she paid special attention to her verse. "I lived with it," she explained. "I kept on hitting you like, 'I'mma have it done today.' I think I did live with it for, like, three days because I was changing it up, I couldn't get it. But then, all of a sudden, something just hit me." The New York MC added that had some doubts at first, admitting that she considered dropping a line where she mimics the loopy, breathy speech of the late Anna Nicole Smith. "I was gonna take that part out because I was like, 'Trey is gonna think I'm crazy,'" she said. After consideration Minaj was cool with how her verse came together. "I'm just happy that I was able to do something that kinda kept that energy up," she enthused.