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Russ

Basement

Release date: 20th April 2018

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About This Track

Russ and Jessie Reyez navigate the messy middle ground of a relationship built on mutual compromise. The song pivots on a single refrain: both parties willing to overlook the other's failings in exchange for closeness. It's less romantic ideal than pragmatic arrangement, the kind of love that survives not through perfection but through a shared decision to stay despite the cracks. The production sits spare and intimate, letting the vocals carry the weight. Russ moves between confession and justification, acknowledging his own blindness to red flags whilst asking for the same grace in return. Reyez meets him there, her verses mirroring his logic: she too has chosen to ignore what doesn't fit, to dismiss the outside voices telling her to leave. The chorus asks a harder question than it first appears: what defines commitment if not the willingness to accept someone as they are, flaws intact?

"Basement" is a track by Russ, released 20th April 2018. Full lyrics are available below.

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Russ

Russ

Lyrics

Basement

[Intro: Russ]

Yeah

Mm, yeah yeah

Yeah yeah, yeah yeah

[Chorus: Russ]

Love me like I'm still in the basement (Yeah)

Love me like I still haven't made it (Yeah-yeah)

Who are you if you give up? (Yeah)

What's real love without slip ups? (Hey)

[Verse 1: Russ]

I been drinkin' 'til I can't see any red flags

(I ignored your faults)

Another couple shots I'm probably gonna text back

(I ignored your faults)

These other women, something's missin'

When I fuck 'em, barely touch 'em

When I fuck you, we be kissin'

All, all, all, all night

(I ignored your faults)

[Chorus: Russ]

Love me like I'm still in the basement (Yeah)

Love me like I still haven't made it (Yeah-yeah)

Who are you if you give up? (Yeah)

What's real love without slip ups? (Hey)

[Verse 2: Jessie Reyez]

Love me like your momma doesn't hate me

I ignored your faults

Ain't you say all your friends say that they rate me?

But I ignored your faults

And now these new ones I ain't used to

They be tryna do what you do, but they missin'

'Cause they shit ain't close

I heard your momma talkin' like she blames me

But you know this is your fault

[Bridge: Russ & Jessie Reyez]

Just tryna get you closer

Yeah, fuck you and your closure

I ignored your faults

I tell you to come over

Don't care that I'm not sober

Just ignore my faults

[Chorus: Russ]

Love me like I'm still in the basement (Yeah)

Love me like I still haven't made it (Yeah-yeah)

Who are you if you give up? (Yeah)

What's real love without slip ups? (Hey)

[Outro: Russ & Jessie Reyez]

Just tryna get you closer

Yeah, fuck you and your closure

So I ignored your faults

I tell you to come over

Don't care that I'm not sober

Just ignore my faults

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Basement

2018
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    Credits

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    Writer
    Jessie Reyez, Russ
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