Best Part
by Daniel Caesar (featuring H.E.R.)

Album: Freudian (2017)
Charted: 75
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Songfacts®:

  • "Best Part" is a soulful ballad about vibrant love. Daniel Caesar and H.E.R. use metaphors to describe the importance of their romantic partners, comparing them to things like coffee, sunshine, and water in a desert. If life is a movie, their lovers are the best part.
  • The Canadian producers Matthew Burnett and Jordan Evans created a mellow and soulful instrumental backing. Burnett and Evans are frequent collaborators with Daniel Caesar and co-founded his independent label, Golden Child Recordings.
  • The song appeared on both artist's respective albums: Caesar's on Freudian, titled "Best Part (feat. H.E.R.)," and H.E.R.'s on her self-titled album, titled "Best Part (feat. Daniel Caesar)."
  • "Best Part" became both artists' second single to reach #1 on Billboard's Adult R&B Songs. Caesar previously topped the chart with "Get You" and H.E.R. with "Focus."
  • The song snagged Best Collaboration at the 2018 Soul Train Music Awards and the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.
  • "Best Part" shows up in the 2023 romantic-comedy movie You People, and in Netflix' 13 Reasons Why ("Prom" - 2020).

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