Jessie Reyez releases her highly-anticipated debut album Before Love Came to Kill Us today featuring a collaboration with Eminem.
The Canadian singer-songwriter reunites with Slim Shady on “Cfin,” which follows their 2018 collaboration “Good Guy.” The melancholy track finds Jessie having suicidal thoughts about her lover.
“You make me wanna jump f the ro ’cause I love you to death just like a fool / I’d rather a cfin handmade for two ’cause I love you to death just like a fool,” she sings before Em responds.
“I don’t really wanna fight / I just wanna spend the night / But I don’t wanna spend the night / Actin’ out, love the way you lie,” he raps before promising to be by his lover’s side until death. “Say the cfin they better make it for two / ‘Cause if you jump, I’m jumpin’ with you / And neither one us have nothin’ to lose.”
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, Jessie decided not to delay the album’s release. “It messed me up because I was like ‘I don’t want to seem insensitive,’” she told The New York Times. “I’ve grown up thinking about death as something that could easily happen tomorrow. But I know that for everybody else, there’s a lot fear right now. I’m conflicted. But I’ve decided I’m putting out because indecision never did anything for nobody.”
The 14-track album also features 6LACK on the previously-released “Imported” and “I Do,” for which she also released a dark video.
Stream Before Love Came to Kill Us below.