Songfacts®:

• "Part of Me" is a reflection on a love gone wrong. A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie notes splashing out on expensive items like Patek watches, Birkin bags and Chrome Hearts jewelry as symbols of his investment in the relationship, while acknowledging that he "should've put you second" instead of always putting his partner first. The song echoes A Boogie's earlier hits like "Drowning (Water)" and "Say A" in the way he blends pain music with melodic rap.
• A Boogie hasn't named names, but fans have speculated the muse behind the track might be social-media personality Ella Bands, the mother of his two children.
• The hook interpolates Mariah Carey's 2005 #1 hit "We Belong Together." In Carey's version, she mournfully admits, "When you left, I lost a part of me." A Boogie flips the line into something far more defiant: "When you left, you lost a part of me."
• Luca Beats, Joshua Moreau, and Abstrakt built the mellow, echoey beat. Their track creates space for A Boogie's soft-spoken, crooning vocal delivery, while weaving in the faint DNA of Carey's original melody.
• Because of the interpolation, the writing credits reflect a deep history of R&B, citing multiple generations of storytellers, including Mariah Carey, Jermaine Dupri, Manuel Seal, and Johntá Austin, as well as Bobby Womack and Babyface (whose works were sampled in "We Belong Together"). This continues New York's tradition of melding hip-hop and R&B, seen in classics like Ja Rule featuring Ashanti's "Always On Time" and Jay-Z and Alicia Keys' "Empire State of Mind."