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| Single byTy Dolla Sign featuringYG | ||||
| from the albumBeach House 3 | ||||
| Released | October 6, 2017 | |||
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| Length | 2:43 | |||
| Label | Atlantic | |||
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| "Ex" onYouTube | ||||
"Ex" is a song by American singerTy Dolla Sign, released on October 6, 2017. It is the third single from his second studio albumBeach House 3 (2017) and features American rapperYG.[1] Produced byBongoByTheWay,Hitmaka and Ty Dolla Sign, the song samples the remix of "Only You" by112.[2]
The song is about the artists' disloyalty and their exes.[3] It opens with Ty Dolla Sign referencing "Where I Wanna Be" byDonell Jones in the chorus: "I just text my main chick (main) / I told her I ain't coming home (home) / I just text my main chick (main) / I told her I ain't coming home, tonight (home)".[2][4][5] He "gets to the heart of his plan" in the first verse, singing, "MixingHenny with theBombay (Bomb') / Fuck it, I done had a long day (oh) / I done linked up with my old thing / Right time, but the wrong place".[4] YG then raps about his single life, on jet skis with "naked" women ("Leave your main squeeze for these naked bitches, yeah / That's how, you know, when it's all bad / She call me, I text her I could call back / But she imagine in her head I'm doing all that").[5]
Kevin Goddard ofHotNewHipHop wrote that Ty Dolla Sign "delivers a radio-friendly club banger that finds him addressing relationship issues with his 'ex' girl."[6]Vice Media called the song a "breezy piece of libidinousR&B that mostly involves Ty Dolla $ign mixing drinks and thinking about hooking back up with a former lover".[7]
The music video was released on January 18, 2018. Directed by David Camarena, it finds Ty Dolla Sign cruising through a city in avintage car with hydraulics, then entering a party surrounded by many women, before he is seen in a room bathed in red lights with a woman wearinglingerie waits for him. Ty later meets up with YG, as they show off old-school cars and go partying.[8][9]
| Chart (2017) | Peak position |
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| USBubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles (Billboard)[10] | 8 |
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United States (RIAA)[11] | Gold | 500,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. | ||
