Robbed You

Album: Finally Over It (2025)
Charted: 58
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Songfacts®:

  • "Robbed You" is a smooth R&B track where Summer Walker vents her anger at a deceitful ex-boyfriend. Having wasted her emotional investment on someone undeserving, Walker laments how she "should have robbed" him given his poor treatment and the way he played with her time.

    Summer Walker has always excelled at this kind of sugar-dusted severity. Think of "I'll Kill You," where she promises grievous bodily harm to her sweetheart if he strays.
  • Rather than a literal retelling of one specific cheating incident, "Robbed You" is a dramatized mosaic of heartbreaks, disappointments, and the kind of men who inspire Summer Walker tracks like "Ex For A Reason."
  • Mariah the Scientist comes in at the end with a darker verse that includes thoughts of homicide towards the ex who betrayed her.
  • Songwriting duties were handled by Walker, Mariah, and Nija Charles, whose résumé includes Cardi B's "I Do," Chris Brown's "No Guidance" and Ariana Grande's "Positions." Charles' previous collaborations with Walker include "Come Thru" and "Ex For A Reason."
  • Drake beatmaker Nineteen85 produced the track alongside Summer's regular crew: Dos Dias, Rami Dawod, and Arsenio Archer. The producers repurpose 50 Cent's "I'll Whip Ya Head Boy," a track best remembered for sounding exactly like its title suggests. The original beat is a heavy, street-level threat; on "Robbed You," the same musical DNA is transformed into a moody, introspective R&B cushion with strings by The Stockholm Studio Orchestra.
  • "Robbed You" appears on Finally Over It, the concluding chapter of Walker's heartbreak trilogy, following Over It and Still Over It. Across the project she moves from asking why men behave badly to examining why she stayed; "Robbed You" is one of the clearest examples of her reframing that history with gallows humor and imagined payback rather than ongoing attachment.

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