Beyoncé surprise-released a four-track "Morning Dew (Donk)" Remix Pack in the early hours of Wednesday, 5 August, with two of the cuts featuring her husband JAY-Z — credited on the remix as JAŸ-Z, spelled with an umlaut over the Y. The drop was announced through a social post from Parkwood Entertainment, the label she founded, which releases the single under exclusive license to Columbia Records (Billboard).

The original "Morning Dew (Donk)" arrived just over a month earlier as a surprise release on 4 July. It was written by Beyoncé, Pharrell Williams, The-Dream and Darius Dixon. The song bowed at No. 7 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart dated 18 July — Beyoncé's first top 10 on that tally in three years — and at No. 3 on the Hot R&B Songs chart. On the Billboard Hot 100, the flagship singles chart that blends streaming, radio airplay and sales, it debuted at No. 26, becoming her 61st top 40 title (Billboard).

The track has a winding backstory. According to Billboard, it was recorded around 2013 during the sessions for Beyoncé's self-titled album. A snippet leaked online in 2021, and a fuller version surfaced in 2023. The official release this summer gave the song its first proper commercial life.

It will also appear on a 20th anniversary deluxe edition of B'Day, Beyoncé's sophomore album, which was released in September 2006 and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, the standard album chart in the US. B'Day produced several career-defining singles, including "Irreplaceable," the 2007 year-end Hot 100 No. 1 single, plus "Beautiful Liar" with Shakira (No. 3 on the Hot 100), "Deja Vu" featuring Jay-Z (No. 4), and "Ring the Alarm" (No. 11) (Billboard).

For fans, the remix pack turns a long-bootlegged curiosity into an official release with new verses from one of the two people who know her catalogue best. The B'Day reissue, meanwhile, signals that a two-decade-old album still has shelved material worth clearing.