oui

Jeremih breaks devotion down to its simplest terms on this classic love song: I wish that we could take some time Go anywhere, baby I don't mind Grown man, in my suit and tie Hey, there's no we without you and I Jeremih explained the song's lyrical content in a Genius annotation. "In a relationship for things to work out it makes two. It's like the ying and the yang, if you don't have no yang then you can't have the ying. So pretty much with this record I was saying without you there isn't we. And 'oui' is really a French word, but I was just playing off the actual English word 'we' as well."

"Oui," is French for "yes." However, Jeremih was in LA, not France when he penned the lyrics back in 2013. He explained: "I was flipping through beats and Needlz sent me this beat; it was pretty much like an alley-oop for a writer like myself to hop on. There is no we without you and I. The "oui" spelling in French is actually O-U-I. It all came together."

Back in his high school days, Jeremih and his homie used to sing an a cappella version of Shai's "If I Ever Fall in Love." During Oui's bridge, he croons a vocal riff on Shai's 1992 R&B hit at the point when the beat falls away. Jeremih explained: "When I heard the beat I was just playing around with the Shai's opening melody, and everyone in the studio was like 'go ahead and do that.'"