The only time you will hear Drake and Nicki Minaj perform "Best I Ever Had" together is during live tours. During the America’s Most Wanted Tour (2010) or various Young Money tours, Drake would bring out Nicki to do her freestyle after he performed the original song. During the transition, Drake might ad-lib: "Yeah, that’s the best I ever had right there." These live recordings were ripped to low-quality MP3s and mislabeled as a studio duet. If you have an old hard drive with a track that has crowd noise and a beat switch, you have a live bootleg, not a studio record.
Before we hunt for Nicki’s verse, we have to respect the source. Drake’s So Far Gone mixtape changed the internet. The lead single, "Best I Ever Had," was a sleeper hit that climbed to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 without a physical single or an album behind it.
Drake’s original lyrics—"Sweatpants, hair tied, chilling with no make-up on"—became an anthem. The beat, a synth-laden, plucked-string loop, became one of the most remixed instrumentals of the MP3 blog era.
After 1,500 words, we arrive at the truth.
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What you want is:
Nicki Minaj - "Best I Ever Had (Freestyle)" (from the Beam Me Up Scotty mixtape, 2009).
What you do not want:
A fan-made mashup that splices Drake’s chorus next to Nicki’s verse—though, admittedly, that is probably the MP3 rotting on your old iPod Nano. The only time you will hear Drake and
In the summer of 2009, Nicki Minaj was not yet the global Pink Friday superstar. She was the "Barbie" of Young Money, famous for her verse on "BedRock" and her ferocious Beam Me Up Scotty mixtape.
While she never recorded a studio collaboration called "Best I Ever Had" with Drake, she did record a freestyle over the "Best I Ever Had" instrumental. This is the source of 99% of the confusion.
What actually happened: Nicki Minaj hopped on the Beatbullyz beat for a mixtape cut (often mislabeled as a remix) to promote her upcoming debut album. In this freestyle, she delivered iconic, manic bars:
"I tell a nigga shut the fuck up / I tell a bitch get off my nuts / If I had a penny for every time you was lyin', I'd be like 'What the fuck?'" Nicki Minaj - "Best I Ever Had (Freestyle)"
She name-drops the original track (“You ain't never had a bitch like me / This ain't the best I ever had, trust me”), flipping Drake’s romantic premise into a boastful declaration of dominance.
Nicki’s freestyle over this beat is officially titled "Best I Ever Had (Remix)" or sometimes listed as "Beam Me Up Scotty (Freestyle)."
If you must have the raw file, search YouTube for "Nicki Minaj - Best I Ever Had Freestyle (Uncensored)." Use a reputable YouTube-to-MP3 converter. Note: This is technically copyright infringement, but historically, this is how the "feat. Drake" myth survived—via reposted videos where fans added Drake’s intro.