 In the outro of the song, Beyoncé sampled the hook from "Turn My Swag On" by Soulja Boy.She used the first two lines of the hook twice with slow falsetto vocals to express the feeling between denial and anger.Pitchfork Media's Ryan Dombal named "Hold Up" as "Best New Track", calling Beyoncé's vocals "emotive" and stating "The music has no weight, no place, no time—a calypso dream heard through walls and generations...When Beyoncé works in the pained refrain of Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Maps," she makes it glorious while allowing our memories to hint at the anguish underneath."