"Hold Up" is a song recorded by American singer Beyoncé for her sixth studio album, Lemonade (2016). The song was serviced to rhythmic radios in the United States on August 16, 2016 as the third single from the album. It was written by Diplo, Ezra Koenig, Beyoncé, Emile Haynie, Josh Tillman, MNEK and Sean "Melo-X" Rhoden.

The song contains a sample of "Can't Get Used to Losing You", written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman; an interpolation of "Maps", performed by Yeah Yeah Yeahs and written by Brian Chase, Karen O and Nick Zinner; and an interpolation of "Turn My Swag On", written by Soulja Boy, Antonio Randolph, Kevin McConnell. Ezra Koenig's Tweet from 2011, "hold up...they don't love u like i love u" had confused people as the song was written in 2011 but, as he explained on Twitter, it was just a random tweet at the time. A demo of "Hold Up" was first written and recorded by Diplo and Koenig in 2014, using a sample of "Maps".

"Hold Up" received a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Solo Performance at the 59th ceremony.

"Hold Up" is written in the key of C major in common time with a tempo of 84 beats per minute. The song follows a chord progression of C–F–D–G–D–F, and Beyoncé's vocals span from A₃ to F₅.

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