Make Me Better by Fabolous

Make Me Better is the third single coming off of Fabolous' third studio album called From Nothin' to Somethin'. The hook is sun by R&B singer Ne-Yo and the song is produced by Timbaland. The strings that are sampled on this song are from the artist Sherine. This song has been certified as platinum. Written by John Jackson and Shaffer Smith, this song lasts 4:13 and was released on June 9, 2007. However, the entire song was leaked onto the internet on April 9, 2007. This song was recorded in two locations. Parts of it were produced in Brooklyn, New York, while the rest was produced in Hollywood, California.

The track is about girls, as are most of the songs on the album. He tells the ladies that when the women upgrade the men, they make them better. Fabolous also said that he wanted a girl that completes you. Fabolous hoped that men could be able to listen to this song and go back to their love interests and tell them that they made them better.

The video for this song was released to the public on May 23, 2007. It features Roselyn Sanchez as Faobolous' love interest. It first premiered on BET on May 25, 2007. Red Café and Dwight Freeney have appearances in the music video. There is one version that was made for the album. Then, there were two promotional versions were made, one of which was simply an instrumental version. Then, there have been three remixes which feature Jagged Edge, Lil' Mo, and Angelia Via. The Jagged Edge remix is the official one.

This song did very well in some of the charts that it made it onto. It debuted on the U.S. Billboard Hot 10 on June 9, 2007. It started out at spot number ninty-six. It was able to reach up to the eighth spot. The single was able to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Rap Tracks. It spent fourteen weeks on the top of this chart, which were a record for 2006 and 2007. It also reached the peak of second on the U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. On the U.S. Billboard Pop 100, this song peaked at the fourteenth spot. In January 2008, VIBE Magazine named Make Me Better as the best song of 2007 of the list of 44. The only international chart that it made it onto was the Canadian Hot 100. It peaked at spot seventy-nine on this chart.

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