Like a Man (Onhel song)

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"Like a Man"
Like a Man Lil Wayne.jpg
Single by Onhel featuring Lil Wayne
ReleasedAugust 8, 2017 (2017-08-08)
Genre Tropical house
Length3:32
Producer(s)
  • Onhel
  • DJ Sirome [1]
Lil Wayne singles chronology
"Love U Better"
(2017)
"Like a Man"
(2017)
"Uproar"
(2018)

"Like a Man" is a song recorded by Onhel, featuring American rapper Lil Wayne. It was released as a single on August 8, 2017. [2]

Contents

Background

The song was described as tropical house with "Wayne's signature croaky, Auto-Tuned vocals". [3] [4] [5] It was shared on Onhel's SoundCloud page, crediting himself as the primary artist and Wayne as the featured artist. [6] [7] It was released one month after Wayne released four songs. [8] Rumored to be a single off Wayne's unreleased Tha Carter V album, the song was leaked in early August. In response to the leak, Wayne officially released it himself to "get ahead" of pirates. [9] [10]

Production

The song was produced by Wayne's long-time audio engineer Onhel, who has produced over fifty songs with him. [11] [12] Wayne said the song was done several years ago but only decided to officially release when he heard the new production. [13] [14] A snippet of the original production was leaked online by hacker group, Music Mafia. [15]

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