Big Sean Says Beyoncé Thought “IDFWU” Was “a little disrespectful”

Beyoncé offered some honest feedback of Big Sean’s “I Don’t F**k With You” when he first shared the song with the pop star and her husband, Jay-Z.

“I went to their house and was playing them songs. Beyoncé was like, ‘It’s a little disrespectful. Maybe you should [get] Nicki Minaj on it for a female’s voice,’” Sean said. “Jay-Z was like, ‘Nah, it’s hard, though.’ He was like, ‘People gonna get it that you just having fun.’”

“Then I remember I was getting texts from Hov. He sent me a text one time that was like, ‘Every day you not putting that song out, you losing,’” the Detroit rapper added. “I almost didn’t put it on the album. I thought it was a little dumb.”

Ultimately, Sean did end up putting out the track, with Bay Area rapper E-40 serving as the featured artist and not Minaj. Released as the lead single for Sean’s Dark Sky Paradisealbum, “IDFWU” became the rapper’s third highest-charting single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

Long speculated to be about the late Naya Rivera, the Gleeactor Sean was in a relationship with and engaged to during the early 2010s, Sean has denied that “IDFWU” was about her.