"Everytime tha Beat Drop", one of the last songs recorded for "The Makings of Me", was chosen as the lead single to show "something that appears on the outside to be different from" Monica and, in addition, represents her hometown Atlanta. Greatly influenced by snap music, the track incorporates beats of Nelly's 2005 single "Grillz" and a sample of the 2006 single "Lean wit It, Rock wit It", as performed by Dem Franchize Boyz. The song received lukewarm reviews, noted as "a decent but ultimately forgettable [...] obligatory club track", and was a mediocre success, reaching the top twenty on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart only. The second single, Elliott-penned "A Dozen Roses (You Remind Me)", underperformed. The song, a modern rework of Curtis Mayfield's 1972 single "The Makings of You", was the last music video-accompanied release from the album.