“Betty (Get Money)” by Yung Gravy

"Betty (Get Money)" was the lead single from Marvelous, Yung Gravy's third album, released through Republic in 2022, and it's built on a very old-school bit of borrowing: it interpolates the synthesizer, melody and chorus of Rick Astley's 1987 song "Never Gonna Give You Up". The idea came from the business side, when the president of Primary Wave, which owned a share of the Astley song, pitched it to Gravy's management. An instrumental showed up a day later, and inside of two days Gravy had his verses down on it.

Gravy wrote it, Nick Seeley, Dillon Francis and Dwilly produced it, and Mike Stock, Matthew Aitken and Pete Waterman share the songwriting credit for the parts it lifts. Between the song and its clip of Gravy dancing in white fur, TikTok went wild for it: more than 300,000 videos used it.

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