The song was released as a physical single, with a B-Side that included “U Don’t Know (Remix)” in both radio and LP versions.

This track sits between the singles “03' Bonnie and Clyde” and “Excuse Me Miss,” and it’s likely, being the “street” single, Jay didn’t feel a video was necessary.

Just Blaze told Complex:

He had the hook in his head for a day or two, but we didn’t have a beat for it. I made that beat the day Left Eye died. It was a TLC sample, a live version of ‘Digging On You.’ I was driving with my ex-girlfriend in the car and she had just died. All the radio stations were doing their tributes. We were in the car on 25th street, and they played that.. right when I nailed it Jay happened to walk into the room. He was like, ‘Oh my God, you’re a genius. That’s it, how’d you know?’ I had forgotten that we talked about the ‘Hovi Baby’ idea the day before. So he spit the hook over the beat and it worked.

Just Blaze went into detail on how he heard the sample and flipped it for Complex. He then speaks on the recording process:

I gave him the raw beat as it was, and it was really just the drums and the sample. Afterwards, I went back and added the bass line, and some of the synths after he went and did his two verses. I didn’t add the intro until we mixed it, but I told him I was going to add a crazy intro. That’s when he said, ‘I want to introduce my band right now, Just Blaze and the Blazettes.” Then I went back and added a live band thing after the synths. He had talked about setting it up that way, so I was like, 'Yo, even though it’s not there yet, act like you’re introducing a band. Then I’m gonna go back and add that stuff sonically.’