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Tems pulled up to Genius to break down her song “Big Daddy.” The Nigerian singer-songwriter gets into the inspiration behind the record, why she loves making music that makes her move, why she’s Big Daddy, and more!

If you want to hear more from Tems, check out her new EP Love Is A Kingdom.

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00:00When I listen to Big Daddy, all I want to do is dance.

00:02I always like making songs that make you feel, but I want to do it in different ways.

00:07And Big Daddy is one of the first songs that make me feel like, it feels sweet.

00:12I can't explain.

00:13It feels like, mmm, cute.

00:22Big Daddy was inspired by an experience of a type of human being.

00:28I would describe that human being as someone that wants to look cool, but doesn't really

00:35work internally on themselves.

00:37It kind of translates into, they want to look like they have control, but they don't really

00:44do anything.

00:45They don't add value.

00:58I'm setting up who Big Daddy is.

01:01Someone that wasn't around.

01:02Someone that wasn't there when you were down.

01:05Someone that didn't have your back and is now back when you're a bit better, you're in

01:11a better place in life.

01:13You're glowing.

01:14You've glowed up.

01:15They called you ugly in high school and now you're a baddie and you're catching everybody's

01:21eye.

01:22And they're back.

01:36There's a time and a place for second chances.

01:40There's a time to never give a chance.

01:42And there's a time to let go.

01:44I think when it comes to relationships, depending on what kind of relation, there's some friendships

01:50that there is no going back once it's been tainted.

01:55It's not even like you don't want to give a second chance, but it's just not possible

01:59to get back the trust level that you used to have.

02:12Someone that doesn't believe in anything and has no goals, they're just trying to look

02:23like they're someone rather than actually being someone.

02:42Drop something for me is a very Nigerian thing to say.

02:49Drop something now is like tip us.

02:51Give us something to enjoy for the weekend.

02:54Now I'm directly talking to them like, are you high?

03:15How big is your ego right now to even reach out to me?

03:19You may look like you're breathing, but you're dead to me.

03:22You're walking around, acting like everything is fine, but when I see you, I see a dead person.

03:43You love that you don't give anything.

03:45You love being dead, like a dead guy, like you're comfortable in your lameness.

03:50Go ahead, you know, do that thing and give me nothing.

03:53I love it, you know, type.

03:54That's the energy behind that.

03:56In the beginning I said, but he loves it when I call him Big Daddy.

04:17I was talking about him in third person, but in the second verse I'm talking to him.

04:21I'm giving you more and more and more context to this person.

04:25Don't you love it?

04:26Like after all these things that you've been doing.

04:28You think that I didn't clock what you were doing.

04:35It's not that, it's that I clocked it and I looked the other way because you're not important enough for me to show emotion to.

04:43That's why I was like, that's the way I like it.

04:45Maybe you should try it.

04:46Like maybe you should take a page from my book.

04:48Maybe you should learn from me and keep quiet.

04:50Maybe you should call me Big Daddy, Big Daddy.

04:57Maybe you should call me Big Daddy because I'm teaching you now.

05:01Now you're my son.

05:02I'm giving you a lesson.

05:03Like I've said, maybe you should try this.

05:06So I'm the Big Daddy here.

05:36Sometimes I freestyle and I don't really know what I do.

05:38If nobody records it, it's gone.

05:40When I recorded it that day and I listened back, I was like, ooh, I feel you girl.

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