The official video was released on his record label's YouTube page on March 5, 2007.Īn official remix featuring NYC rappers Ja Rule, Fat Joe and Jadakiss can also be found on the Internet and it is an iTunes bonus track of the album (Jadakiss is not on the iTunes version of the remix). Kat Graham makes a cameo appearance in the video.

After both of them meet with their respective friends, they get together at an outdoor late-night party where Musiq performs and brings the woman up on stage to be with him. The video is directed by Sanaa Hamri, the video is set in Sunset Junction, Los Angeles where Musiq exits a music shop and sees a attractive woman and asks her if she could be his friend with benefits, listing off the things that he's not and the phrases the song's title means. The lyrics are a man's attempts to persuade a girl he can be her 'buddy'. The song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance at the 50th Grammy Awards but lost to 'Future Baby Mama' by Prince. It contains samples from De La Soul's 'Buddy (Native Tongues Decision Remix)', Taana Gardner's 'Heartbeat' and interpolations from the composition 'Heartbeat (Kenton Mix)'. It was released on Januafter being given to radio stations in the US in late November 2006. ' B.U.D.D.Y.' (pronounced 'Buddy') is the first single from Musiq Soulchild's fourth album Luvanmusiq.

Ivan Barias, Cornelius Eugene Church, Earl Guinn, Kairi J Guinn, Carvin Haggins, Taalib Johnson, Kenton Nix 2007 single by Musiq Soulchild 'B.U.D.D.Y.'

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