Fall In Love (Your Funeral)

Album: New Amerykah Part Two: Return Of The Ankh (2010)
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Songfacts®:

  • Badu warns her suitor over and over, "You don't want to fall in love with me." The singer adds in a nod to a lyric by late rapper the Notorious B.I.G: "You don't want to fall in love with me/There's gonna be a lot of slow singing and flower bringing, if my burglar alarm starts ringing."
  • The song uses a sample from Eddie Kendrick's' 1978 R&B track "Intimate Friends," which was also used by Alicia Keys on her 2005 "Unbreakable" single.

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