{"id":488440,"date":"2019-07-26T07:21:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T13:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=863884"},"modified":"2019-07-26T07:21:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T13:21:58","slug":"big-sean-sings-with-his-ex-jhene-aiko-on-new-song-single-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/big-sean-sings-with-his-ex-jhene-aiko-on-new-song-single-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Sean Sings with His Ex Jhene Aiko on New Song \u2018Single Again\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/GettyImages-1052691740.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Following the premiere of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/big-sean-new-single-overtime-863321\/\">\u201cOvertime,\u201d<\/a> his first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/big-sean-disrespect-862977\/\">new music release<\/a> since 2017, on Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/big-sean\/\" id=\"auto-tag_big-sean\" data-tag=\"big-sean\">Big Sean<\/a> has unveiled a new track called \u201cSingle Again.\u201d The song features guest vocals from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ty-dolla-ign\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ty-dolla-ign\" data-tag=\"ty-dolla-ign\">Ty Dolla $ign<\/a> and, more notably, Big Sean\u2019s ex-girlfriend, the singer Jhene Aiko. (One of Big Sean\u2019s other famous exes, Ariana Grande, gave him a shout-out in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ariana-grande-thank-u-next-legally-blonde-mean-girls-760128\/\">her \u201cThank U, Next\u201d video<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Lyrically, \u201cSingle Again\u201d sees the rapper coming to terms with needing time for himself, and and needing to not put the entire weight of a relationship\u2019s shortcomings on the other person: \u201cTold \u2019em that we better off friends\/Blaming you is just so easy\/But maybe the problem\u2019s me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rapper hinted at the song\u2019s meaning on Twitter before its release Friday:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.452107279693\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">I never knew that I didn\u2019t know how to be alone in life. I always would find so much joy n happiness in a relationship or being with friends, but I didn\u2019t know how important it was to be in a relationship with yourself.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sean Don (@BigSean) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BigSean\/status\/1154531074644406273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">July 25, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSingle Again\u201d is Big Sean\u2019s first major release since 2017\u2019s&nbsp;<em>I Decided<\/em>, featuring the singles \u201cBounce Back,\u201d \u201cMoves\u201d and \u201cJump Out the Window.\u201d In 2018 he appeared on YG\u2019s song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/see-ygs-big-bank-video-with-nicki-minaj-big-sean-2-chainz-666098\/\">\u201cBig Bank\u201d<\/a> with Nicki Minaj and 2 Chainz. Big Sean <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/j-cole-sza-big-sean-dreamville-festival-lineup-810174\/\">recently performed<\/a> at J. Cole\u2019s inaugural Dreamville Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina, along with SZA, 21 Savage, Young Thug, Teyana Taylor and more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/big-sean-single-again-863884\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the premiere of \u201cOvertime,\u201d his first new music release since 2017, on Wednesday, Big Sean has unveiled a new track called \u201cSingle Again.\u201d The song features guest vocals from Ty Dolla $ign and, more notably, Big Sean\u2019s ex-girlfriend, the singer Jhene Aiko. (One of Big Sean\u2019s other famous exes, Ariana Grande, gave him a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-488440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 09:28:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}