Somebody Else (Mario song)

"Somebody Else"
Single by Mario featuring Nicki Minaj
Released	May 21, 2013
Genre	R&B[1]
Length	4:09
Label	3rd Street RCA
Songwriter(s)	Mario Barrett Jeremiah Bethea Jamal Jones Onika Tanya Maraj Marvin E. Smith William Tyler Cory McWilliams
Producer(s)	Polow Da Don Anomaly
Mario singles chronology
"The Walls" (2011) "Somebody Else" (2013) "Fatal Distraction" (2013)
Nicki Minaj singles chronology
"High School" (2013) "Somebody Else" (2013) "I'm Out" (2013)
Music video
"Somebody Else" on YouTube

"Somebody Else" is a song by American R&B singer Mario, featuring guest vocals from Trinidadian-American rapper Nicki Minaj. It was written by Mario and Minaj along with William "Anomaly" Tyler, Jeremiah Bethea, Cory McWilliams, and Jamal Jones, while production was helmed by Tyler and Polow. The upbeat tempo record heavily samples the 1975 song "Remember the Rain" by American R&B group 21st Century.^[2] Due to the sample, Marvin E. Smith is also credited as a songwriter.

The song was released digitally by RCA Records on May 21, 2013. It earned largely positive reviews and peaked at number 36 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. A music video for the song, directed by Alexandre Moore, was filmed in New York City in May 2013 and premiered in July 2013. "Somebody Else" was intended to serve as lead single for Mario's then-upcoming fifth studio album Evolve, but would remain a standalone single due to Mario scrapping the whole album and departing from the label.^[3][4]