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Rita Ora // R.I.P. [Feat. Tinie Tempah]
After debuting her US single “Party And Bullsh*t” earlier this week, Rita Ora is back with her first solo release in the UK.
With Tinie Tempah on board, the highly anticipated “R.I.P.” is set for release May 6. But after years of waiting does it live up to the buildup? I don’t want to overhype this - but yeah, it’s pretty great.
Produced by Chase & Status alongside Stargate, the Drake penned song features impressionable synths and heavy guitars, which are sampled from Chase & Status’ remix of Nneka’s “Heartbeat”. Nneka’s vocals are also sampled on the pre-chorus of “R.I.P.”, giving the song a pretty complex structure, which somehow works, despite there being so much going on in the track.
Meanwhile Tinie’s verses are clever, and Rita makes a lot more use of her powerful vocals than she does on the US single. That’s a great thing too as I’d love to hear plenty of her vocal prowess on the album. Hopefully that record won’t come too far in the distant future, but until then we’ve finally got the song that was used in all her video diaries. Thank goodness it’s
not half badflipping amazing.
