Vampire Weekend singer Ezra Koenig says that he received a writing credit on Beyoncé's Lemonade track "Hold Up" due to a demo he wrote years ago.
Koenig explained that the story begins with the release of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Maps" in 2003, which contains the line "Wait, they don't love you like I love you." In 2011, he had thought of changing "wait" to "hold up," tweeting out his revision of the line.
He further explains that three years later he entered the studio with Diplo and wrote lyrics based off his old tweet, including the line "There's no other God above you, what a wicked way to treat the man who loves you." He was intending to release it as a Vampire Weekend song before being convinced to send it to Beyoncé.
"Beyoncé 100% made it her own, and I'm very glad to have been a part of it," he writes.
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