Beyonce's BREAK MY SOUL: Listen to the first single from RENAISSANCE album featuring Robin S Show Me Love sample and Big Freedia interpolation
21.06.2022 - 11:15
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Beyoncé's first single from her upcoming RENAISSANCE (Act 1) album, BREAK MY SOUL, is finally here.
Less than a week after the Destiny's Child star announced news of her seventh solo studio record, the first Robin S-sampling, Big Freedia-featuring taste of the LP is now with us.
Ahead of the full album's release on July 29, BREAK MY SOUL sees Bey explores a more dance direction, with production credits from The-Dream (Terius Nash), Christopher 'Tricky' Stewart and Beyoncé herself.
Once again teaming up with New Orleans bounce MC Freddie Ross Jr., known by stage name Big Freedia, who she last worked with on 2016 Lemonade track Formation, Beyoncé details the monotony of the 9-to-5 hustle over a pulsating, '90s-reminiscent piano house beat.
'Work by nine/Then off past five/And they work my nerves/That’s why I cannot sleep at night,' she sings over the throbbing production.
LISTEN to Beyoncé's BREAK MY SOUL here: What song does Beyoncé's BREAK MY SOUL sample? Robin S's Show Me Love?
It does indeed. BREAK MY SOUL samples Robin S's iconic 1993 Number 6 single Show Me Love. Absolute banger.
The track also interpolates bounce MC Big Freedia's 2014 track Explode, taken from her album Just Be Free.
On being asked to feature on the single, Big Freedia tweeted: "It feels surreal to be on the track with the Queen Beyonce once again I’m so honored to be apart of this special moment I’m forever grateful lord someone please catch me."
BREAK MY SOUL is out now via Columbia.
Article image: Shutterstock/Columbia.