Despicable Me 2 album for the film, released on June 18, 2013 through Back Lot Music. The original music was composed by Heitor Pereira and Pharrell Williams. The album was promoted by the highly successful single "Happy" performed by Williams. "Despicable Me 2" received positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 74% approval rating with an average rating of 6.7/10 based on 177 reviews. The website's consensus reads, ""Despicable Me 2" offers plenty of eye-popping visual inventiveness and a number of big laughs." Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating from mainstream critics, gave the film
Pharrell Williams 2009, Williams was credited as a co-writer and producer of the song "Fresh Out the Oven" for Jennifer Lopez. It was released as a buzz single from Lopez's seventh studio album "Love?". The following month, Williams made a guest appearance on French rapper Uffie's first album, which arrived in early 2010.<ref name="Busy P Blog 10/03/2009"></ref> In late 2009, Williams worked with the rapper Game on his fourth studio album, "The R.E.D. Album." In July 2010, Williams composed the soundtrack to the movie "Despicable Me", produced by Hans Zimmer and recorded with the Hollywood Studio Symphony. In October 2010, Williams and