Ciara returned this month with “Level Up”, her first official single in over three years. As if that weren’t enough to get her fans hyped, the R&B singer has now dropped a remix of the track boasting additional contributions from Missy Elliott as well as New York’s Fatman Scoop.
“Fake friends, I let go/ I don’t hang with them no mo’,” Missy declares on her take-no-shit-from-anyone guest verse. “I level up, get money and devil up…, she continues, before rattling off the equivalent of a Mean Girls mic-drop: “Now y’all can’t sit with us.”
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If these three names together sound familiar, you’d be right — Ciara and Fatman Scoop previously featured on Missy’s “Lose Control” single from 2005.
Take a listen below.
“Level Up” Remix Artwork: