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On this track, 6lack sings about a girl with whom he once felt trapped. Now he feels free, but she feels trapped by the past.

The music video depicts a girl constantly showering him with affection. Later she binds him to a bed with spider webs, where she begins to transform into a spider right before his eyes. Surprised, she rushes to the bathroom where she morphs into a 6lack-widow spider. 6lack, however, manages to escape by kicking a candle down, lighting the web aflame, but also setting the room on fire.

The symbolism of the black widow is striking. Female black-widow spiders are known to kill their male counterparts after or even during mating. This is where the name “black-widow” is derived. Also, a female black-widow spider is more than half the size of the male, their poison is three times more poisonous, and is extremely territorial.

He announced the release of the video via social media: