Red Potion
Red Potion
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<input type="checkbox" id=toggle1><label for=toggle1><span class="annotate-lyric"> London <br/></span></label><div id=content1 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> The producer's tag  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle2><label for=toggle2><span class="annotate-lyric"> Ooh-yeah, yeah-ah, ah-ah<br/>Ah-ah-ah, ah-ah <br/></span></label><div id=content2 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> Rema melodizes </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle3><label for=toggle3><span class="annotate-lyric"> Another banger <br/></span></label><div id=content3 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> Rema's signature intro expressing that the song is yet another hit.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle4><label for=toggle4><span class="annotate-lyric"> Gunshot from bum short, iye (Killy me, ahh)<br/>Your low waist put me for headlock, iye (Killy me, ahh) <br/></span></label><div id=content4 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He compares the intriguing effect a woman's appearance has on him to a gunshot and a headlock. He is captivated by how she looks and expresses that she wants to 'kill him.' In this context, he means kill in a good way because he is drawn to her.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle5><label for=toggle5><span class="annotate-lyric"> Me sef I never talk, “What’s up”, ah<br/>And I don dey see what’s up<br/>Gimme yansh make I lie down on top<br/>E be like say you no know me sha <br/></span></label><div id=content5 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He has not even spoken to her yet but he finds her very attractive and feels as though she doesn't really know him. "Yansh" is a Nigerian pidgin word for bum or buttocks. He wants her to let him lay on her bum. " </div></div><br/><br/> Baby, I need your love <input type="checkbox" id=toggle6><label for=toggle6><span class="annotate-lyric"> Kirikiti-uh <br/></span></label><div id=content6 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> Rema melodizes  </div></div><br/><input type="checkbox" id=toggle7><label for=toggle7><span class="annotate-lyric"> I tell her make she bring her friends but she bring five minus one (She wanna—)<br/>She wanna be the main attraction, she wanna be the only one (I really know she wanna)<br/>She no wan carry create situation, wey e be say me no carry am (Carry her own wahala) <br/></span></label><div id=content7 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He told her to bring her friends but she only brought four of them because she wants to be the main attraction. She doesn't want a situation whereby he would choose one of them over her.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle8><label for=toggle8><span class="annotate-lyric"> (Shhh) I sabi this your format <br/></span></label><div id=content8 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> Rema knows why she did what she did  </div></div><br/> My favorite chocolaté na your Kitty-Kat <br/><br/> Baby, I need your love <input type="checkbox" id=toggle9><label for=toggle9><span class="annotate-lyric"> Uh, krikitiki<br/>Yeah-uh, yeah-uh, yeah-uh, yeah-uh <br/></span></label><div id=content9 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> Rema melodizes </div></div><br/><input type="checkbox" id=toggle10><label for=toggle10><span class="annotate-lyric"> You not fit talk, abi? You no fit shout, abi?<br/>You no fit, you no fit, you— (E shock you?)<br/>(Na she carry my wahala come her door)<br/>Na she carry my wahala (Wahala)<br/>She want my D, she no fit take am <br/></span></label><div id=content10 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> She seems shocked/overwhelmed by his penis size because after all, she was the one that wanted to be with him. She wants to have sex with him but now she does not seem to be able to handle it.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle11><label for=toggle11><span class="annotate-lyric"> Tony Montana <br/></span></label><div id=content11 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> Rema likens himself to the cultural icon- Antonio "Tony" Montana, a fictional character and the villain protagonist of the 1983 film- Scarface. The character embodies the "rags to riches" story.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle12><label for=toggle12><span class="annotate-lyric"> She go swallow all the bullet for my kala (Kiriki) <br/></span></label><div id=content12 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> Rema's love interest swallows his semen and he compares this act to swallowing all the bullets in a gun.  </div></div><br/><input type="checkbox" id=toggle13><label for=toggle13><span class="annotate-lyric"> Gunshot from bum short, iye (Killy me, ahh, ayy-le-le)<br/>Your low waist put me for headlock, iye (Killy me, ahh, ayy-le-le, le-le-le-le) <br/></span></label><div id=content13 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He compares the intriguing effect a woman's appearance has on him to a gunshot and a headlock. He is captivated by how she looks and expresses that she wants to 'kill him.' In this context, he means kill in a good way because he is drawn to her.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle14><label for=toggle14><span class="annotate-lyric"> Me sef I never talk, “What’s up”, ah<br/>And I don dey see what’s up<br/>Gimme yansh make I lie down on top<br/>E be like say you no know me sha (Every—) <br/></span></label><div id=content14 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He has not even spoken to her yet but he finds her very attractive and feels as though she doesn't really know him. "Yansh" is a Nigerian pidgin word for bum or buttocks. He wants her to let him lay on her bum. " </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle15><label for=toggle15><span class="annotate-lyric"> Gunshot from bum short, iye (Killy me, ahh)<br/>Your low waist put me for headlock, iye (Killy me, ahh) <br/></span></label><div id=content15 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He compares the intriguing effect a woman's appearance has on him to a gunshot and a headlock. He is captivated by how she looks and expresses that she wants to 'kill him.' In this context, he means kill in a good way because he is drawn to her.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle16><label for=toggle16><span class="annotate-lyric"> Me sef I never talk, “What’s up”, ah<br/>And I don dey see what’s up<br/>Gimme yansh make I lie down on top<br/>E be like say you no know me sha <br/></span></label><div id=content16 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He has not even spoken to her yet but he finds her very attractive and feels as though she doesn't really know him. "Yansh" is a Nigerian pidgin word for bum or buttocks. He wants her to let him lay on her bum. " </div></div><br/><br/> Baby, I need your love <br/> Uh-uh

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Credits
Produced by
London
Written by
Rema
Release date
October 26, 2023