Know Who You Are

Album: G I R L (2014)
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Songfacts®:

  • This duet finds Pharrell and Alicia Keys taking turns to empower a lady who needs to be lifted up. Pharrell referred to this during the album's listening party as his "soldiers' hymn" for those closest to him.
  • Keys starts the second verse with the line: "I want every woman to make a pledge with me." Pharrell commented that working with Keys on the song "made all the sense in the world, because that's who she is. She embodied the pledge."

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