Which Beyoncé song features Jay-Z and opens with a famous trumpet-like hook?

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Beyoncé’s “Crazy in Love” features Jay-Z and opens with a distinctive brass hook.

Released in 2003, the song was the lead single from Dangerously in Love, Beyoncé’s debut solo studio album. Its production was built around a prominent horn sample from “Are You My Woman (Tell Me So),” originally recorded by the Chicago funk group the Chi-Lites.

Jay-Z contributes a rap verse, making the track a collaboration between the two artists before their marriage. The song became a major commercial success, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and helping define Beyoncé’s early solo sound.

The hook is often described informally as a trumpet riff, although the recording uses a broader brass arrangement and a sampled musical phrase. “Drunk in Love” is another Beyoncé and Jay-Z collaboration, but it appeared a decade later on the album Beyoncé.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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