Timbaland is quoted as saying that: The strings are sampled from Sherine's "Al Sa'ban Aleh".

The beat was originally created for rapper Eve and featured Timbaland over a song called "Nothing to Say."

This video also includes the rapper Red Cafe and a guest star Dwight Freeney as a person who is challenged by a drunken man.

[2] The single has spent 14 weeks at number 1 in the Billboard Hot 100 Rap Tracks.

In its January 2008 issue, VIBE Magazine named "Make Me Better" the best song of 2007 on its list of the top 44.