“Hate Our Love” by Queen Naija & Big Sean

Queen Naija and Big Sean speak up about external parties that want to see their relationship fall in this track, “Hate Our Love”. In fact, this only makes them stronger in their respective relationships as they choose to fight against the negativity.

Intro

Big Sean starts the song expressing how he knew his significant other was ‘the one’ the moment he laid eyes on her. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the same case for his partner then, as she tried to “diss” him until she realised he was “someone (she) could talk to”. This took much perseverance on Sean’s part, probably due to the fact that the addressee had been in multiple bad relationships before. With her eventually falling for him, he tells her that her exes should not be bugging her anymore.

Verse 1

Queen Naija follows up by showcasing her crazy love for her partner. Like any relationship, she too faces up and downs, sometimes resulting in not “seeing eye to eye”. But she doesn’t quit on her partner as her life is pretty much meaningless without him.

Pre-Chorus & Chorus

Sometimes, the toxicity in a relationship may not be derived from the people involved in it but from the external parties. We see over here that these external parties are like parasites preying on their relationship and “won’t be satisfied until (they) break up”.

Verse 2

Naija goes on to say the stuff these parasites do, which are ridiculous. Making stories up that her partner is cheating on her or that he’s just with her for her influence. While it brings about some comedy to their relationship as they’re able to laugh it off together, it puzzles Naija as to why people would do such a thing. This feeling is relatable to anyone who have been/are in such a situation. There are a myriad of reasons as to why people do this – possibly out of boredom, jealousy or one could be interested in either of the parties in the relationship, and the list goes on.

Bridge

Here, Sean disses external parties who’s only aim is to destroy both the narrators’ relationships and what being in his current relationship has taught him. He reaches his limit where he doesn’t pay heed to what these parasites say anymore. Sean interlinks his personal experience with current partner, Jhené Aiko and how they weren’t there when her brother died of a brain tumor. In fact, he was there with her throughout the time and even at his funeral. We see that, just like any ordinary person, Sean wants to have a future with his partner and “never need divorce”.

Takeaway

All in all, both Naija and Sean choose to remain happy in their respective relationship and not let the haters get in the middle of this happiness.

Release Date of “Hate Our Love”

“Hate Our Love” was released as a single on 4^th February, 2022 under Capitol Records.

Naija first teased this single on 22^nd January, 2022 via her Instagram account.

Credits

Sean and Naija wrote this song alongside a group of notable writers including:

• Ralph Johnson (who is famously noted as a member of Earth, Wind & Fire)
• Patrick McManus (who has worked with the likes of Machine Gun Kelly, Alec King and Kiana Lede)
• Douglas Gibbs (whose credits include working with Little Richard, Billy Preston and Chuck Jackson)
• Keith White 

It should be noted that this song significantly samples Bobby Glenn’s “Sounds Like a Love Song”. This is the reason some of the aforementioned writers receive writing credits.

Inspiration behind “Hate Our Love”

Queen Naija revealed that the inspiration behind this song was that being a public couple with husband Clarence White, people have their own judgements and “conspiracies” in relation to her personal life. She also wishes to tell people not to “let anybody come in between anything or anyone that you love”.

Is “Hate Our Love” Queen Naija’s first time working with Big Sean?

Yes. This is the first collaboration between Naija and Big Sean.

According to Naija, collaborating with Sean had been one of the things on her bucket list as they both are from Detroit, and she considers him one of the top rappers in the industry currently.