The Weekend
by Stormzy (featuring Raye)

Album: single release only (2023)
Charted: 23
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Songfacts®:

  • "The Weekend" is a playful and flirty exploration of a weekend fling. Stormzy and Raye team up for this R&B-rap throwback to Ja Rule and Ashanti's game-changing music from the early 2000s. Stormzy even declares he's "always on time" in the second verse.
  • With tongue-in-cheek lyrics, Stormzy and Raye tell a story of chasing a new flame. They're all about finding the perfect moment to link up, and that moment is "The Weekend."
  • Stormzy and Raye both grew up in South London and have known each other for a long time. They first worked together on the 2016 song "Ambition," a track on Raye's Second EP. The following year, Raye cameoed in Stormzy's "Big For Your Boots" music video.
  • Stormzy and Raye wrote "The Weekend." Raye also co-produced it with London. A Nigerian-British record producer, London's other credits include Rema and Selena Gomez' "Calm Down" and Ayra Starr's "Bloody Samaritan."
  • The collab came about on a rare day off for Raye. "I was back in London for literally a day," she recalled to NME. "I had just got back from America and the next day I was headed somewhere else. I was so jet-lagged and Stormzy called me out of the blue like, 'Raye, what you doing? I'm in the studio, do you want to come?' I went to the studio and we did it!"

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