Lay Down Your Weapons

Album: I Ain't Perfect (2013)
Charted: 18
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Songfacts®:

  • Kevin Georgiou is an English rapper of Greek Cypriot descent from the Stonebridge estate of northwest London. Georgiou's younger cousin gave him the idea to start a music career and he started rapping under the moniker of K. Koke. Georgiou's first mixtape, Pure Koke Volume 1, was an underground success and earned him a recording contract with Roc Nation. This cut was released as the second single from his debut studio album I Ain't Perfect.
  • The song features guest vocals from Koke's Roc Nation labelmate, Rita Ora.

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