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Ayra Starr is back at Genius to break down her new single “Gimme Dat.” The track samples Mary J. Blige and Wyclef Jean’s 2000 hit “911” and features fellow Afrobeats star Wizkid. This marks another standout collaboration between the two artists, who previously teamed up on their hit “2 Sugar.” On today’s episode of Verified, the singer-songwriter opens up about stepping out of her comfort zone, being a loyal lover, recognizing alignment in life, and more!

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00:00Give Me That is a very sexy song, and I am a very like, you know, I don't know if I'll

00:03say sexy person.

00:04I don't know if I can say that.

00:06I don't want to, you know, I don't want to gas myself up too much.

00:08I'm very like confident, but I don't really do a lot of sexy songs.

00:12I like to inspire people.

00:13I want people to feel confident about themselves, so I do it like through like just different

00:17ways.

00:18But no, I don't really sing about like sexy, I'm sex.

00:20I'm shy, okay?

00:21That's just the truth, guys.

00:22I don't sing about it because I'm shy.

00:30I think I recorded this in New York.

00:32I recorded it like four times because I didn't like it.

00:34I love the song, but I didn't like like my recording of it.

00:38It came as a demo.

00:39This is like one of the first times I was doing like demos, and I'm just like, it needs to

00:43sound good.

00:44It needs to sound great.

00:45Then I sent it to his.

00:46I was like, do you want to jump on the song?

00:47I was like, I got you.

00:48A week after he sent me his verse, I heard his verse in the car.

00:51I was like, release the song now.

00:53Next week we need to release the song.

01:00I was like, stop playing or you're playing kill me with your riz line, so just talk to

01:05me with your riz.

01:06You already got that sauce going on, so stop playing and like come.

01:11I want that peace of mind where they come with awoof.

01:14So awoof means like money.

01:16When you say somebody wins the lottery, like a lot of money, like hey awoof, like you win

01:21it.

01:22You didn't work for it, but it comes.

01:23So I'm basically telling him, give me that love, give me peace of mind, awoof.

01:28Baby, now I'm mad, it's with it all, so make you no can waste time, oh no, no pressure.

01:37Those two sentences are like, I'm juxtaposing them literally, because I'm like, it's a one

01:42man race, so don't waste time, but at the same time I'm also like, no pressure, hurry

01:47up, you know.

01:48I'm only going to pick one guy, but at the same time, take your time.

01:58I'm not a great dancer, but I always want to dance.

02:06When I'm feeling very confident and sexy, I definitely want to dance.

02:08A boy is watching me.

02:09If I'm in like a party and I know somebody's looking at me, I'm going to be like ... I start

02:15doing moves I didn't even know I had in me.

02:17Like sometimes I'm like ... I see videos there and I'm like, oh, I didn't know I had that

02:21in me.

02:22If I'm feeling somebody, I just become a dancer immediately, like I'm like, mmm.

02:38I'm very, very loyal.

02:40If I'm like with somebody, I'm with somebody till the end.

02:43Give me that love, give me me, I no go let go, like I'll hold you down, you know.

02:51If I give you my love, oh, make you no disappoint, oh, me, I got you from mind, oh, Diallo.

03:00Diallo is a West African name and it's just somebody, you know, I'm singing to.

03:05You can be the most perfect girl in the world and they will still do you dirty.

03:09It's not your fault.

03:10It's the world we live in.

03:12We all have trust issues at this point.

03:14Every woman on earth has trust issues because of the things that these people do to us.

03:19And I get an amen.

03:22Amen.

03:30It's kind of like a double entendre.

03:32My stew means like my sauce.

03:34People are trying to bite off like my sauce, but also it means so many people want to like

03:38lick my stew, you know, like.

03:42If you get it, you get it.

03:43If you don't get it, forget about it.

03:50Two by two is like a two by two steak, you know.

03:52So I'm just saying, if I handle your two by two.

03:55Yeah.

03:56So many reasons are written in the stars, oh my God, you're the reason I do what I do.

04:10So baby, make you give me your love.

04:14When certain things start to like align and make sense, that's how I know it's written in the stars.

04:20When somebody makes me laugh, like we have the same exact like sense of humor.

04:23Because my sense of humor is very like, it's unbalanced.

04:26Like it doesn't make sense.

04:27You know how to make me laugh and we have the same sense of humor.

04:30And then that's really like a sign.

04:32Religion, where we're both going to in life, you know.

04:36And that's like one of the things I'm like, mmm.

04:39God is cooking, you know.

04:40God is cooking.

04:41My favorite line from WizKids verse is, not only you, they make me want to stick to one girl.

04:50Because like, why not, you know.

04:52Let me be the reason like, you want to stick to only me.

04:55I love that part.

04:56I also love, keep it private.

04:58No, they mind them.

04:59Mm-hmm.

05:00Let's keep it private, you know.

05:02Nobody has to know.

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