- 2025-02-07
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MUSIC
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Rema Premieres New Song “Baby (Is it a Crime)” on BBC Radio 1
Nigerian rapper Rema premiered a new song “Baby (Is it a Crime)” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
The song is his first solo music since his 2024 sophomore album “HEIS”, which was nominated for Best Global Music Album at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards.
As the single, the song is the follow-up to the collaborative single “Fi Kan We Kan” with Bnxn, which was released last October.
The track samples London-based band Sade's 1985 “Is It a Crime?”.
It was written by Andrew Hale, Divine Ikubor, Peace Oredope, Sade Adu, and Stuart Matthewman. Produced by P.Priime.
Rema told Jack Saunders about the song, “It's all about good vibes. It's all about love. I think it's important to keep the love vibration going on. There's so much happening in the world, and we just need someone who's always there with us. I just want people to take it in it's a slow move. I just want people to enjoy it just want people to take their time with it.”- He continued, “I was the only one in the room in Kenya. I was just me and a bottle of red wine. As usual, since it came to me, I was just expressing myself. Usually, I like to sing about what I experience. And it's just the same collective scenario that every guy goes through, walking up to a girl, asking the girl out, trying to vibe with a girl, stuff like that. And that was just like my reflection at the time, when I was just expressing that.”
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He talked about his last album and his approach to the new song through the album, “It was received very well. I already had my expectations prior to when I was making the project. It was very experimental for me. I had so much rage, I needed to express. I had so much darkness. I needed to like let go, because I spent so much years from since when I've been since when I dropped my first gigs, when I was 18. I just even in good times and bad times. I still try my best to express good vibrations with sound. But I feel like I was suppressing so much of like I was suppressing so much dark energy, and I needed to, like, express it creatively. And I just felt like it's best to put in the art to just have a self reflection on myself, create something that I enjoy, and then share it with the world.” - source : BBC Radio 1
