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{{Short description|2007 single by T-Pain}}
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{{Infobox Single <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Songs -->
{{Infobox song
| Name = Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')
| Covername = Buy U =a Drank (Shawty BuyUaDrank.JPGSnappin')
| Captioncover = Buy =U a Drank (Shawty Snappin').jpg
| Artist alt = [[T-Pain]] featuring [[Yung Joc]]
| type = single
| from Album = [[Epiphany (album)|Epiphany]]
| A-sideartist = [[T-Pain]] featuring [[Yung = Joc]]
| B-sidealbum = [[Epiphany (T-Pain = album)|Epiphany]]
| released = {{Start date|2007|02|20}}
| Released = [[February 20]], [[2007]]
| recorded = 2006
| Format = [[Digital download]], [[CD single]]
| Recorded studio = 2006
| Genre genre = [[Rhythm and blues|R&B]]
* [[Contemporary R&B|R&B]]
| Length = 03:49
* [[Snap music|snap]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.stereogum.com/2216439/the-number-ones-t-pains-buy-u-a-drank-shawty-snappin-feat-yung-joc/columns/the-number-ones/ | title=The Number Ones: T-Pain's "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')" (Feat. Yung Joc) | date=March 17, 2023 }}</ref>
| Label = [[Konvict Muzik]] / [[Jive Records]]
| Writer length = [[T-Pain|Faheem Najm]]3:48
| Producer label = [[T-Pain]]
* [[Nappy Boy Entertainment|Nappy Boy]]
| Certification =
* [[Konvict Kulture|Konvict]]
| Chart position =
* [[Jive Records|Jive]]
* #10 <small>([[Billboard Hot 100|U.S.]])</small>
| writer =
| Misc = {{Extra chronology
| Artist =* [[T-Pain|Faheem Najm]]
* [[Yung Joc|Jasiel Robinson]]
| Type = singles
* [[Lil Jon|Jonathan Smith]]
| Last single = "[[Outta My System]]" ([[Bow Wow]] featuring [[T-Pain]]) <br />(2007)
* [[E-40|Earl Stevens]]
| This single = "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')" <br />(2007)
* [[YoungBloodZ|Sean Paul Joseph]]
| Next single = "[[Know What I'm Doin']]" ([[Birdman]] & [[Lil Wayne]] featuring [[Rick Ross (rapper)|Rick Ross]] & [[T-Pain]]) <br />(2007)
* [[Lil Scrappy|Darryl Richardson]]
* Richard Sims
* Jarvis Griffin
* Reginald Jones
* Miguel Willis
* [[Al Kapone|Alphonzo Bailey]]
* [[Isaac Hayes III]]
| producer = T-Pain
| chronology = [[T-Pain]]
| prev_title = [[Outta My System]]
| prev_year = 2007
| next_title = [[Bartender (T-Pain song)|Bartender]]
| next_year = 2007
| misc = {{Extra chronology
| artist = [[Yung Joc]]
| type = single
| prev_title = In the Hood
| prev_year = 2006
| title = Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')
| year = 2007
| next_title = [[Coffee Shop (Yung Joc song)|Coffee Shop]]
| next_year = 2007
}}
}}
 
"'''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 (T-Pain album)|Epiphany]]''.
 
==Background==
'''"Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')"''' is [[T-Pain]]'s new single released on [[February 20]], [[2007]]. The song also features rapper [[Yung Joc]]. The music video premiered on [[April 9]], [[2007]] on [[MTV]] and features cameos from [[E-40]], Gorilla Zoe, [[Huey (rapper)|Huey]], Tay Dizm, and J. Lyriq. The song debuted on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] at number 84 in early [[March]] [[2007]] and has thus far peaked at #10, making it [[T-Pain]]'s third and [[Yung Joc]]'s second top ten [[United States|U.S.]] single.<ref>Katie Hasty, [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003552292 "Mims Puts The 'Hot' In The Hot 100 At No. 1"], Billboard.com, March 1, 2007.</ref>
[[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?'".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ryan |first=Patrick |title=T-Pain shares stories behind 10 of his biggest hits |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2015/12/14/t-pain-10-biggest-hits-lil-wayne-jamie-foxx-chris-brown-kanye-west/77215914/ |access-date=2024-08-16 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}}</ref>
 
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 (album)|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.'"<ref>{{Cite web |title=T-Pain Reveals Which R&B Singer Almost Took 'Buy U A Drank' From Him |url=https://www.iheart.com/content/2020-08-07-t-pain-reveals-which-rb-singer-almost-took-buy-u-a-drank-from-him/ |access-date=2024-08-16 |website=iHeart |language=en}}</ref>
== References to Other Songs ==
This song references several other songs. The ones referenced are:
 
==Critical reception==
*[[Snap Yo Fingers]] by [[Lil Jon]] (featuring [[E-40]] and [[Sean Paul (rapper)|Sean P]] of the [[YoungBloodZ]]) (''Snap yo fingers, do ya step, you can do it all by yourself'')
The song ranks 63rd on ''[[Rolling Stone]]''{{'}}s list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007.<ref>No byline (December 11, 2007). [https://web.archive.org/web/20071215210730/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17601363/the_100_best_songs_of_2007/16 "The 100 Best Songs of 2007"] ''Rolling Stone''. Retrieved December 21, 2007</ref> The magazine also ranked it as the 74th best R&B song of the 21st century.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-rnb-songs-21st-century-1234878625/pretty-ricky-on-the-hotline-1234878764/| title=The 100 Greatest R&B Songs of the 21st Century | magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] | date=3 January 2024 }}</ref> ''[[The Plain Dealer#Cleveland.com|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.”<ref>{{cite news|first= Troy L. |last= Smith |title= Every No. 1 song of the 2000s ranked from worst to best |website= [[Cleveland.com]] |date= 13 September 2021 |access-date= 31 January 2023|url= https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2021/09/every-no-1-song-of-the-2000s-ranked-from-worst-to-best.html}}</ref>
*[[Money In The Bank (song)|Money In The Bank]] by [[Lil Scrappy]] (featuring [[Young Buck]]) (''I got money in the bank, shawty what you thank bout that...'')
*[[Zoom (song)|Zoom]] by [[Lil Boosie]] (featuring Yung Joc) (''We in the club like zoom, zoom,zoom,zoom, zoom'' {repeated twice} but T-Pain rephrases it as ''We in the bed like ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh'')
*[[Walk It Out]] by [[Unk]] (''Walk it out (now walk it out)'')
*[[It's Goin' Down]] and [[Patron (song)|Patron]] by Yung Joc (''On that Patron, you should get like me'')
 
==Chart performance==
The song refers to him being at a club and offering to buy a drink for a woman he's attracted to. He boasts to the woman that he's got 'money in the bank' and later says 'we in the bed like ooh, ooh, ooh' meaning he wants to sleep with her.
The song debuted on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] at number 84 on the issue date of March 10, 2007.<ref>Katie Hasty, [http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1054358/mims-puts-the-hot-in-the-hot-100-at-no-1 "Mims Puts The 'Hot' In The Hot 100 At No. 1"], Billboard.com, March 1, 2007.</ref> 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 (magazine)|''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,<ref>Jonathan Cohen, [http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1052081/t-pain-tastes-hot-100-glory-with-drank "T. Pain Tastes Hot 100 Glory With 'Drank'"], Billboard.com, May 17, 2007.</ref> becoming T-Pain as well as [[Yung Joc]]'s first number 1 single on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''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 (song)|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.<ref>Songfacts [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=8223 Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin') by T-Pain]</ref>
== Charts ==
 
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==Music video==
!align="left"|Chart (2007)
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 (rapper)|Huey]], [[Tay Dizm]], [[Ryan Shaw]], [[Shawnna]], Jay Lyriq, [[Kardinal Offishall]], [[Brandon T. Jackson]] and many others.
!align="center"|Peak<br>position <small><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicsquare.net/charts/song/12161|title=T-Pain's 'Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin')': Chart Positions|accessdate=March 2|accessyear=2007}}</ref></small>
 
==Charts==
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===Weekly charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+Weekly chart performance for "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')"
|-
! scope="col"| Chart (2007)
|align="left"|U.S. [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]
! scope="col"| Peak<br />position
|align="center"|10
|-
{{single chart|Australia|18|artist=T-Pain feat. Yung Joc|song=Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')|access-date=May 6, 2022|rowheader=true}}
|align="left"|U.S. ''Billboard'' [[Billboard Hot 100 Airplay|Hot 100 Airplay]]
|align="center"|13
|-
{{single chart|Australiaurban|5|url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20080222222442/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20071020-0000/issue920.pdf|urltitle=Issue 920|access-date=April 18, 2023|rowheader=true}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
|align="left"|U.S. ''Billboard'' [[Hot Digital Songs]]
|align="center"|12
|-
{{single chart|Canada|25|artist=T-Pain|access-date=May 6, 2022|rowheader=true}}
|align="left"|U.S. ''Billboard'' [[Hot RingMasters]]
|align="center"|1
|-
{{single chart|New Zealand|2|artist=T-Pain feat. Yung Joc|song=Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')|access-date=May 6, 2022|rowheader=true}}
|align="left"|U.S. ''Billboard'' [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs]]
|align="center"|4
|-
{{single chart|Portugal|39|artist=T-Pain feat. Yung Joc|song=Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')|access-date=May 6, 2022|rowheader=true}}
|align="left"|U.S. ''Billboard'' [[Pop 100]]
|align="center"|21
|-
! scope="row"| [[UK Singles Chart|UK Singles]] ([[Official Charts Company|OCC]])<ref>{{cite web | url=http://zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK_T.HTM | title=Chart Log UK: DJ T – Tzant | publisher=zobbel.de | access-date=May 6, 2022}}</ref>
|align="left"|[[United World Chart]]
| 112
|align="center"|30
|-
{{single chart|Billboardhot100|1|artist=T-Pain|access-date=May 6, 2022|rowheader=true}}
|-
{{single chart|Billboardrandbhiphop|1|artist=T-Pain|access-date=May 6, 2022|rowheader=true}}
|-
{{single chart|Billboardpopsongs|4|artist=T-Pain|access-date=May 6, 2022|rowheader=true}}
|-
{{single chart|Billboardrhythmic|1|artist=T-Pain|access-date=May 6, 2022|rowheader=true}}
|}
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===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+Year-end chart performance for "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')"
|-
! scope="col"| Chart (2007)
! scope="col"| Position
|-
! scope="row"| Australia (ARIA)<ref name="AUSendofyear">{{cite web|url=http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-top-100-singles-2007.htm |title=ARIA Charts – End Of Year Charts – Top 100 Singles 2007 |publisher=[[Australian Recording Industry Association]] |access-date=January 8, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100731164015/http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-top-100-singles-2007.htm |archive-date=July 31, 2010 }}</ref>
| 92
|-
! scope="row"| New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://aotearoamusiccharts.co.nz/archive/annual-singles/2007-12-31 |title=Top Selling Singles of 2007 |publisher=[[Recorded Music NZ]] |access-date=May 19, 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150511184208/http://nztop40.co.nz/chart/?chart=2088 |archive-date=May 11, 2015 }}</ref>
| 4
|-
! scope="row"| US ''Billboard'' Hot 100<ref name="US-yearend">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/yearendcharts/2007/hot-100-songs |title=Year End Charts – Hot 100 Songs |magazine=Billboard |publisher=Prometheus Global Media |year=2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003172544/http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/yearendcharts/2007/hot-100-songs |archive-date=October 3, 2012 |url-status=live |access-date=June 12, 2025}}</ref>
| 5
|-
! scope="row"| US R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2007/hot-r-b-hip-hop-songs |title=The Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Songs – Year End Charts 2007 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |publisher=[[Prometheus Global Media]] |access-date=June 30, 2016 |archive-date=November 19, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131119075526/http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2007/hot-r-b-hip-hop-songs |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| 4
|-
! scope="row"| US Rhythmic (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2007/rhythmic-songs|title=Rhythmic Songs – Year-End 2007|magazine=Billboard|access-date=June 12, 2025|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190131043556/https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2007/rhythmic-songs| archive-date= January 31, 2019 | url-status= live}}</ref>
| 1
|}
 
===Decade-end charts===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+Decade-end chart performance for "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')"
|-
! scope="col"| Chart (2000–2009)
! scope="col"| Position
|-
! scope="row"| US ''Billboard'' Hot 100<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/decadeendcharts/2009/hot100-songs |title=The Billboard Hot 100 Singles & Tracks – Decade Year End Charts |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |publisher=[[Prometheus Global Media]] |access-date=April 18, 2011}}</ref>
| 71
|}
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==Certifications==
{{Certification Table Top|caption=Certifications for "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')"}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Canada|artist=T-Pain|title=Buy U a Drank|award=Platinum|type=ringtone|relyear=2007|certyear=2007|note=Ringtone|accessdate=28 April 2022}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=New Zealand|artist=T-Pain|title=Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')|award=Platinum|type=single|relyear=2007|relmonth=2|certyear=2007|certmonth=12|source=archive|access-date=October 7, 2021}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|artist=T-Pain Ft Yung Joc|title=Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')|award=Platinum|type=single|relyear=2007|certyear=2024|id=15296-4805-1|access-date=December 6, 2024}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|artist=T-Pain|title=Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')|award=Platinum|number=7|type=single|relyear=2007|certyear=2022|digital=true|access-date=June 3, 2022|refname=RIAA}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|artist=T-Pain|title=Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')|award=Platinum|number=3|type=single|relyear=2007|certyear=2007|digital=true|access-date=December 21, 2021|note=Mastertone|refname=RIAA1}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|noshipments=true|streaming=true}}
 
==Remixes==
{{Infobox song
There are 2 remixes: one with [[Yung Joc]] and [[Trey Songz]], and another one with [[Kardinal Offishall]].
| name = Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')
| version = remix
| cover =
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = [[T-Pain]] featuring [[Kanye West]]
| album = [[Can't Tell Me Nothing (mixtape)|Can't Tell Me Nothing]]
| released = {{Start date|2007|07|16}}
| recorded = 2006
| studio =
| genre = * [[Hip hop music|Hip hop]]
* [[snap music|snap&B]]
| length = * {{Duration|4:17}}
* {{Duration|4:32}} (Part II remix with [[UGK]])
| label = * Nappy Boy
* Konvict
* Jive
| writer = * [[T-Pain|Faheem Najm]]
* [[Yung Joc|Jasiel Robinson]]
* [[Kanye West]]
| producer = [[T-Pain]]
| chronology = [[Kanye West]] and [[T-Pain]]
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = [[Good Life (Kanye West song)|Good Life]]
| next_year = 2007
}}
 
The official remix on the single features rapper [[Kanye West]] and the part 2 of the remix has [[UGK]] with T-Pain and 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 and [[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]].
 
==See also==
*[[List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2007 (U.S.)]]
*[[List of number-one R&B singles of 2007 (U.S.)]]
 
==References==
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[[Category:Music videos directed by Benny Boom]]
[[Category:Song recordings produced by T-Pain]]
[[Category:Songs written by T-Pain]]
[[Category:Songs written by Lil Jon]]
[[Category:Songs written by E-40]]
[[Category:Songs about alcohol]]
[[Category:Songs about dancing]]
[[Category:Konvict Muzik singles]]
[[Category:Jive Records singles]]
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