"Hey Mama" is a song recorded by the French DJ and record producer David Guetta featuring singers Nicki Minaj and Bebe Rexha, and co-production by the Dutch record producer Afrojack. The song was released on 16 March 2015, as the fourth single from Guetta's sixth studio album, Listen (2014). It was produced by David Guetta, Afrojack, and Giorgio Tuinfort, who also wrote the song with Rexha, Minaj, Ester Dean, and Sean Douglas. The track samples American ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax's 1948 recording of "Rosie", a work song sung by an Afro-American chain gang at the Mississippi State Penitentiary.
The song met a commercial success, reaching number one in Poland and Greece, becoming Guetta's fourth number one in these countries, Minaj's second and Rexha's first, while peaking at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, and peaking within the top 10 in numerous countries including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Lebanon, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.