Medicine

Album: Queen Naija (2018)
Charted: 45
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Songfacts®:

  • Queen Naija is a singer and YouTube vlogger who auditioned for American Idol in 2014, making it to the top 50. Her rise to fame as a vlogger came as one half of Chris And Queen, a YouTube vlog channel she started with her husband Chris Sails that at its peak boasted nearly 2.5 million subscribers. However after Queen Naija created a solo channel in April 2017 and moved in with her brother, fans began asking questions about her relationship with her husband.

    "When they saw that I stopped doing videos with [Sails] on our channel, the fans were trying to put two and two together, like, 'What's going on?'" she recalled to Billboard. "I didn't want to answer. We were a public couple, and we had a big platform - it was embarrassing."
  • "Medicine" is billed as Queen's "explanation" to her followers, in which she explicitly references a breakup and cheating rumors. The song went live on the singer's YouTube channel a few hours before midnight on December 31, 2017. "It pretty much explains everything I felt and the reason why I actually did leave," Queen said about the song in a vlog a few days later. "When everything is so public and you don't have no privacy and people are throwing themselves at you, sometimes stuff just happens."
  • Queen Naija recalled in a Genius attribution the day that she wrote the song:

    "I was at my brother's house, downstairs in the guest room. I was just sitting there, vibing to music, because I'm going through all this stuff, so I need to do something to occupy myself. I just started listening to beats, and I was like, 'This is nice.' I was like, 'You told me you love me, but I haven't been feelin' this lately.' So I just kept going with it. And the whole, 'You say you love keepin' me fly but can't keep me from looking crazy,' that basically means when a guy showers you with gifts and all this good stuff and jewelry, but you got me out here lookin' stupid. You like to keep me fly, lookin' good, but I still look dumb."
  • The song quickly went viral attracting over two million YouTube views within a fortnight. Queen Naija believes part of the appeal of "Medicine" is the fact it addresses the double standard applied to women in relationships. "You know how a girl can cheat, and a guy will just leave them, but a guy can cheat, and a girl [is expected to] give them chance after chance?," she said. "As soon as you give [an adulterer] a taste of their own medicine, they want to trip out -- [as if] they didn't do a million things to you."

Comments: 1

  • Jay Rayford from Norman, OklahomaI agree but then the guy wants to call you dramatic and tell you to "get over it, it's part of life, everyone cheats" but when you do it back to them they get in their feelings and try to make you the enemy/villain/bad guy but they can hurt you and shatter your heart but you can't do it to them because then your a hoe, slut, skank like bro a guy can cheat and have sex with 5 girls and it be ok but a girl has sex with 5 guys and their a whore bruh like wtf
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