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Is it A Crime (Unreleased)
Is it A Crime (Unreleased)
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Rema's unreleased track "Is It a Crime?" features a collaboration with J Hus. The song blends Afrobeat rhythms with soulful melodies, exploring themes of desire and longing. It samples Sade's classic hit of the same name, adding a contemporary twist to the timeless tune.

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[Rema Snippet] <br/><br/> Is it a crime? <br/> Is it a crime <br/> That I still want you <br/> And I want you to want me too? <br/><input type="checkbox" id=toggle1><label for=toggle1><span class="annotate-lyric"> Baby (Rema), baby sunmomi <br/></span></label><div id=content1 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> "Sunmomi" means "come close to me" in Yoruba  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle2><label for=toggle2><span class="annotate-lyric"> You know say you match my steeze <br/></span></label><div id=content2 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> "Steeze" is a slang term that combines the words 'stylish' and 'easy.' It means effortlessly cool. Rema says his love interest matches his cool </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle3><label for=toggle3><span class="annotate-lyric"> You know I'm a G <br/></span></label><div id=content3 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> A "G" is a person valued highly because of their realness, caringness, and greatness in general. </div></div><br/> Shawty, I'ma always keep it real <input type="checkbox" id=toggle4><label for=toggle4><span class="annotate-lyric"> I no dey for too much whining, dey for too much whining <br/></span></label><div id=content4 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He is not interested in deceiving or playing games with her  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle5><label for=toggle5><span class="annotate-lyric"> As e dey be (Ooh) <br/></span></label><div id=content5 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> This is a Nigerian Pidgin phrase meaning "as it is" </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle6><label for=toggle6><span class="annotate-lyric"> As the shayo dey enter, oya, make we kolobi <br/></span></label><div id=content6 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> As the alcohol enters his system, he wants to be with her  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle7><label for=toggle7><span class="annotate-lyric"> Oya, show yourself, do over-sabi <br/></span></label><div id=content7 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> "O ya" is a Yoruba phrase meaning "it is time." "Over-sabi" is a Nigerian Pidgin slang meaning "know-it-all." Rema wants her to show off (presumably her looks or abilities). </div></div><br/> Love is in the air, baby, breathe in <br/><input type="checkbox" id=toggle8><label for=toggle8><span class="annotate-lyric"> I dey available<br/>Baby, anytime you need me, I dey available <br/></span></label><div id=content8 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> Rema is available whenever his love interest needs him.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle9><label for=toggle9><span class="annotate-lyric"> Compatible, two of us dey compatible <br/></span></label><div id=content9 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> Here "dey" is a Nigerian Pidgin slang meaning "are" </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle10><label for=toggle10><span class="annotate-lyric"> Girl, I be bad boy, forget say I dey mellow <br/></span></label><div id=content10 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He warns her that he is a "bad boy" so she shouldn't be deceived by his mellow demeanour </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle11><label for=toggle11><span class="annotate-lyric"> Ah baby, I dey fold, baby, take it slow <br/></span></label><div id=content11 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He has fallen for her  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle12><label for=toggle12><span class="annotate-lyric"> Baby, go down low, nobody gots to know <br/></span></label><div id=content12 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> "Nobody gots to know" means "nobody has to know" </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle13><label for=toggle13><span class="annotate-lyric"> Oh yeah, I know I play around, but me no fit to let you go <br/></span></label><div id=content13 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> Rema knows that he plays around but he cannot let her go  </div></div><br/> <br/><input type="checkbox" id=toggle14><label for=toggle14><span class="annotate-lyric"> Ooh (Is it a crime?) <br/></span></label><div id=content14 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> "Sunmomi" means "come close to me" in Yoruba  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle15><label for=toggle15><span class="annotate-lyric"> Baby, baby sunmomi <br/></span></label><div id=content15 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> "Steeze" is a slang term that combines the words 'stylish' and 'easy.' It means effortlessly cool. Rema says his love interest matches his cool </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle16><label for=toggle16><span class="annotate-lyric"> You no say you match my steeze <br/></span></label><div id=content16 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> A "G" is a person valued highly because of their realness, caringness, and greatness in general. </div></div><br/> You know I'm a G <input type="checkbox" id=toggle17><label for=toggle17><span class="annotate-lyric"> Shawty, I'ma always keep it real <br/></span></label><div id=content17 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He is not interested in deceiving or playing games with her  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle18><label for=toggle18><span class="annotate-lyric"> I no dey for too much whining, dey for too much whining (That I still want you?) <br/></span></label><div id=content18 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> This is a Nigerian Pidgin phrase meaning "as it is" </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle19><label for=toggle19><span class="annotate-lyric"> As e dey be <br/></span></label><div id=content19 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> As the alcohol enters his system, he wants to be with her  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle20><label for=toggle20><span class="annotate-lyric"> As the shayo dey enter, oya, make we kolobi <br/></span></label><div id=content20 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> "O ya" is a Yoruba phrase meaning "it is time." "Over-sabi" is a Nigerian Pidgin slang meaning "know-it-all." Rema wants her to show off (presumably her looks or abilities). </div></div><br/> Oya, show yourself, do over-sabi (Yeah) <br/> Love is in the air, baby, breathe in <br/> <br/> [J Hus Snippet] <input type="checkbox" id=toggle21><label for=toggle21><span class="annotate-lyric"> I got ninety-nine reasons why I'd never leave you <br/></span></label><div id=content21 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> This line is likely inspired by the lyric "Got ninety-nine problems and a bitch ain't one" on Ice-T's 1993 hit - "99 Problems." It eventually became the hook of Jay-Z’s iconic song - "99 Problems".  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle22><label for=toggle22><span class="annotate-lyric"> Baby, that's treason <br/></span></label><div id=content22 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> J Hus likens him leaving her to an act of treason  </div></div><br/> Let me keep you warm, outside it's freezin' <input type="checkbox" id=toggle23><label for=toggle23><span class="annotate-lyric"> Wifey season, it's you I'm squeezin', I slowly ease in<br/>She's a queen, Your Highness, this one's the tightest <br/></span></label><div id=content23 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> J Hus describes getting intimate with his love interest. He praises her too. </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle24><label for=toggle24><span class="annotate-lyric"> You know you're too leng, you're the brightest, you're the G.O.A.T <br/></span></label><div id=content24 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> "Leng" is a British slang for "attractive" and G.O.A.T is an acronym for "greatest of all time" </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle25><label for=toggle25><span class="annotate-lyric"> Lemme put it inside your throat, you gotta open your mouth the widest <br/></span></label><div id=content25 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> This is in reference to him having oral sex with her </div></div><br/> Ain't you so goddamn hot? I gotta rise two lighters <input type="checkbox" id=toggle26><label for=toggle26><span class="annotate-lyric"> Baby girl, I'm roasting, just like I'm fresh out of Rikers <br/></span></label><div id=content26 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> "Rikers" refers to Rikers Island, a 413-acre prison island in the Bronx which contains New York City's largest jail. </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle27><label for=toggle27><span class="annotate-lyric"> She like me and I like her, she ride me like a biker <br/></span></label><div id=content27 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> J Hus likens how she rides him during sex to riding a bike  </div></div><br/> And she defend me, she's a fighter <input type="checkbox" id=toggle28><label for=toggle28><span class="annotate-lyric"> I'm on a mission every time I pipe her <br/></span></label><div id=content28 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> "Pipe her" is a slang that means to "have sex with her" </div></div><br/> [...] <br/><br/> Ooh (Is it a crime?) <input type="checkbox" id=toggle29><label for=toggle29><span class="annotate-lyric"> Baby, baby sunmomi <br/></span></label><div id=content29 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> "Sunmomi" means "come close to me" in Yoruba  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle30><label for=toggle30><span class="annotate-lyric"> You know say you match my steeze <br/></span></label><div id=content30 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> "Steeze" is a slang term that combines the words 'stylish' and 'easy.' It means effortlessly cool. Rema says his love interest matches his cool </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle31><label for=toggle31><span class="annotate-lyric"> You know I'm a G <br/></span></label><div id=content31 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> A "G" is a person valued highly because of their realness, caringness, and greatness in general. </div></div><br/> Shawty, I'ma always keep it real <input type="checkbox" id=toggle32><label for=toggle32><span class="annotate-lyric"> I no dey for too much whining, dey for too much whining (That I still want you?) <br/></span></label><div id=content32 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He is not interested in deceiving or playing games with her  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle33><label for=toggle33><span class="annotate-lyric"> As e dey be <br/></span></label><div id=content33 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> This is a Nigerian Pidgin phrase meaning "as it is" </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle34><label for=toggle34><span class="annotate-lyric"> As the shayo dey enter, oya, make we kolobi <br/></span></label><div id=content34 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> As the alcohol enters his system, he wants to be with her  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle35><label for=toggle35><span class="annotate-lyric"> Oya, show yourself, do over-sabi <br/></span></label><div id=content35 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> "O ya" is a Yoruba phrase meaning "it is time." "Over-sabi" is a Nigerian Pidgin slang meaning "know-it-all." Rema wants her to show off (presumably her looks or abilities). </div></div><br/> Love is in the air, baby, breathe in

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