R.I.P

Story of Song

When Rita first heard this song she immediately felt connected to it. She told the staff from dizzydrake.org: “There’s a track on there [the album] called R.I.P., which is about a girl getting her own and telling her man ‘I’m so much better than you ex-girl you don’t even know!’ I know there’s girls… well I can speak for myself sometimes I’m always intrude on knowing who he used to go out with! If I’m seeing a guy ‘who do you used to go out with?’  not because I cared about her, not because I think they’re better than me or anything like that, it’s because you just always want to know…and because you’re going to compare yourself to the ex just because that’s what girls do. So this is a song about me saying to the guy ‘RIP to the girl you used to see her days are over…I’ve decided to give you all of me…’ When Drake wrote that I was just like ‘Tt makes to much sense to me that I would love to sing this song’ I wouldn’t sing a song if I didn’t connect to it.”

Release date

Released May 6, 2012

Songwriter/s

Aubrey “Drake” Graham – Renee “Shi” Wisdom – Saul Milton – William Kennard – Tor Erik Hermansen – Mikkel Storleer Eriksen – Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu – Nneka Egbuna – Farhad Samadzada

Label

Roc Nation – Columbia

Chart Rankings

In the UK, ‘RIP’ topped the Official Charts Company after selling over 400.000 copies, and was certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). The song didn’t enter the Billboard Hot 100, but topped the US Hot Dance Club songs, and peaked at number 3 on the US Bubbling Under Hot 100. In Scotland it topped the Official Charts Company; in Australia, it reached number 10, and in Ireland it peaked at number 11

Artist’s age on release date

Rita Ora was 22 years old and Tinie Tempah was 24 when this song was released.

Cover Versions

Leah McFall – Lawson – Farah Washington – Delilah – Other amateur artists covered this song on Youtube.