“Flowers” was first spotted as “Fuck Flowers” on a tracklist that surfaced on an Instagram picture with Malik Yusef, it was unknown at the time if the song titles were for Donda 2.

On February 17, 2022, Future posted a picture to Instagram teasing the song lyrics with the caption: “FuCk FLOWERS SENDA HUNDRED THOUSAND.”

Later that day, Kanye West shared a snippet of an unfinished mumble demo of the song being played on his Stem Player, the post also announced that the album would be exclusively available through the aforementioned Stem Player.

On February 22, “Flowers” was played at the first listening party for Donda 2, the song had changed radically as the lyrics were clean which contrasted with the explicit chorus of the first version.