# Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')

"Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')" is a song by American singer T-Pain featuring American rapper Yung Joc. Produced by T-Pain himself, it was released on February 20, 2007, as the lead single from his second studio album, Epiphany.

## Background

T-Pain said during a USA Today interview that "Buy U a Drank" was "the first record where I was trying to make a hit song. I was going into the studio consciously like, 'What do people like talking about? They like drinking and they like drinking with girls. What do you say to a girl to get her a drink?'".
In 2020, T-Pain revealed during the talk show Hot Ones, that he teased the record to Chris Brown, who liked the song so much that he wanted it for himself: "Once I made ['Buy U a Drank'], I was so proud of it [that] I walked into Chris Brown's studio and showed it to Chris Brown. He tried to take it from me. He was like, 'Oh, my God... We've got to get this on [Exclusive].' And I was like, 'Yeah, man! For sure! Nah, whatever you want!' I was just defeated at that time, and as soon as I left out of that room, I was like, 'He's not ever hearing that song again.'"

## References to other songs

The song contains different references to other popular hip hop songs at the time, including:
* Lil Scrappy's song "Money in the Bank" is referenced in the chorus with the line, "I got money in the bank / Shawty what you think about that".
* The line "We in the bed like 'Ooh'" is a reworked version of the chorus to the Lil Boosie song "Zoom".
* At the beginning, the line, "Snap yo fingers, do your step, you can do it all by yourself", is a lead line from the Lil Jon song, "Snap Yo Fingers".
* Also he states "back to the crib, show you how I live" refers to 50 Cent's "Just a Lil Bit".
* At the end of the second verse, T-Pain says 'On That Patrón You Should Get Like Me', referencing Yung Joc's "It's Goin' Down" off his album New Joc City.
* Later on in the song, T-Pain takes a line from the single by Unk, "Walk It Out" when he says, "...Walk it out." The song also includes uncredited vocals by T-Pain's Nappy Boy artists, Tay Dizm and Jay Lyriq. Lyriq sings: "Let's get gone, walk it out....Now rock, rock, rock, rock, you can do it all by yourself", and Dizm sings: "Now walk it out, think about it... Ah snap!".

## Critical reception

The song ranks 63rd on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007. The magazine also ranked it as the 74th best R&B song of the 21st century. Cleveland.com commented that “T-Pain has told the story that “Buy U a Drank” was the first song he wrote intending to write a hit and it shows.”

## Chart performance

The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 84 on the issue date of March 10, 2007. On the issue date of May 12, 2007 the single became T-Pain's first and Yung Joc's second number 1 single on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. On the same Billboard magazine issue date, "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')" became T-Pain's highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100 to date, surpassing the number 5 peak of "I'm 'n Luv (Wit a Stripper)". On the issue date of May 26, 2007, "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')" reached number 1, becoming T-Pain as well as Yung Joc's first number 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was less popular in the United Kingdom, failing to appear on the official UK Singles Chart.
The song, which spent its chart run in each of the top 12 positions of the Hot 100, broke the record of "Truly Madly Deeply" by Savage Garden, which previously had been the only single in the history of the Hot 100 to spend time in each of the top 10 positions on the chart during its run.

## Music video

The music video was directed by Benny Boom. It premiered on April 9, 2007, on MTV and features cameos from various artists such as E-40, Gorilla Zoe, Huey, Tay Dizm, Ryan Shaw, Shawnna, Jay Lyriq, Kardinal Offishall, Brandon T. Jackson and many others.

## Certifications

| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
| Canada (Music Canada) Ringtone | Platinum | 40,000$^*$ |
| New Zealand (RMNZ) | Platinum | 15,000$^*$ |
| United Kingdom (BPI) | Platinum | 600,000$^‡$ |
| United States (RIAA) | 7× Platinum | 7,000,000$^‡$ |
| United States (RIAA) Mastertone | 3× Platinum | 3,000,000$^*$ |
| $^*$ Sales figures based on certification alone. $^‡$ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |||

## Remixes

The official remix on the single features rapper Kanye West and the part 2 of the remix has UGK with T-Pain & West. There are also other remixes that features Chingy, Trey Songz, Stat Quo and T.I. respectively. There is also a remix with T-Pain, West, UGK & Trey Songz. Miami rapper, Lil' Brianna, sampled this record for a freestyle from her 2007 mixtape Princess of Miami.
A remixed version titled I Like Dat was released on May 14, 2021. It features T-Pain himself along with American singer Kehlani.