Beyonce's BREAK MY SOUL: Listen to the first single from RENAISSANCE album featuring Robin S Show Me Love sample and Big Freedia interpolation

Bey returns with a piano-house-pivoting dance track, and it's HUGE
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Beyoncé's first single from her upcoming RENAISSANCE (Act 1) album, BREAK MY SOUL, is finally here.

Less than a week after the Destiny's Child star announced news of her seventh solo studio record, the first Robin S-sampling, Big Freedia-featuring taste of the LP is now with us.

Ahead of the full album's release on July 29, BREAK MY SOUL sees Bey explores a more dance direction, with production credits from The-Dream (Terius Nash), Christopher 'Tricky' Stewart and Beyoncé herself.

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Once again teaming up with New Orleans bounce MC Freddie Ross Jr., known by stage name Big Freedia, who she last worked with on 2016 Lemonade track Formation, Beyoncé details the monotony of the 9-to-5 hustle over a pulsating, '90s-reminiscent piano house beat.

'Work by nine/Then off past five/And they work my nerves/That’s why I cannot sleep at night,' she sings over the throbbing production.

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LISTEN to Beyoncé's BREAK MY SOUL in full here:

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Did Beyoncé write BREAK MY SOUL with husband Jay-Z?

She did. Bey and Jay, real name Shawn Corey Carter, are the only two credited lyricists.

What song does Beyoncé's BREAK MY SOUL sample? Robin S's Show Me Love?

It does indeed. BREAK MY SOUL samples Robin S's iconic 1993 Number 6 single Show Me Love. Show Me Love's writers Fred McFarlane and Allen George both receive credits on the song. Absolute banger.

The track also interpolates bounce MC Big Freedia's 2014 track Explode, taken from her album Just Be Free.

On being asked to feature on the single, Big Freedia tweeted: "It feels surreal to be on the track with the Queen Beyonce once again I’m so honored to be apart of this special moment I’m forever grateful lord someone please catch me."

Beyoncé's BREAK MY SOUL lyrics in full below:

I'm 'bout to explode, take off this load
Bend it, bust it open, won't ya make it go?
Yaka, yaka, yaka, yaka, yaka, yaka, yaka
Yaka, yaka, yaka, yaka, yaka, yaka, yaka
Release ya wiggle
Yaka, yaka, yaka, yaka, yaka, yaka, yaka
Yaka, yaka, yaka, yaka, yaka, yaka, yaka
Release your wiggle

You won’t break my soul
You won’t break my soul
You won’t break my soul
You won’t break my soul
I’m telling everybody
Everybody
Everybody
Everybody

Now I just fell in love
And I just quit my job
I’m gonna find new drive
Damn they work me so damn hard
Work by nine
Then off past five
And they work my nerves
That’s why I cannot sleep at night

Motivation
I’m looking for a new foundation, yeah
And I’m on that new vibration
I’m building my own foundation, yeah
Hold up
Oh baby baby baby

You won’t break my soul
You won’t break my soul
You won’t break my soul
You won’t break my soul
I’m telling everybody
Everybody
Everybody
Everybody

Release ya anger, yelease ya mind
Release ya job, release the time
Release ya trade, release the stress
Release the love, forget the rest

Imma let down my hair
‘Cause I lost my mind
Bey is back and I’m sleeping real good at night
The queens in the front and the doms in the back
Ain’t takin’ no flicks but the whole clique snapped
It’s a whole lot of people in the house
Trying to smoke with the yak in your mouth

And we back outside
You said you outside but you ain’t that outside
Worldwide hoodie with the mask outside
In case you forgot how we act outside

Got motivation
I done found me a new foundation, yeah
And I’m taking my new salvation
And imma build my own foundation, yeah
Ooh baby baby

You won’t break my soul
You won’t break my soul
You won’t break my soul
You won’t break my soul
And I’m telling everybody
Everybody
Everybody
Everybody

If you don't seek it
You won’t see it
That we all know

If you don’t think it
You won’t be it
That love ain't yours

Trying to fake it
Never makes it
That we all know

You can have the stress
And not take less
I'll justify love

We go round in circles
Round in circles
Searching for love
We go up and down
Lost and found
Searching for love<

Looking for something that lives inside me
Looking for something that lives inside me

You won’t break my soul
You won’t break my soul
You won’t break my soul
You won’t break my soul
I’m telling everybody
Telling everybody
Everybody
Everybody

You won’t break my soul
You won’t break my soul, no, no
You won’t break my soul
You won’t break my soul

And I’m telling everybody
Everybody
Everybody
Everybody

I’m taking my new salvation
And imma build my own foundation, yeah
Got motivation
I done found me a new foundation, yeah
I’m taking my new salvation
And imma build my own foundation, yeah

BREAK MY SOUL is out now via Columbia.

Article image: Shutterstock/Columbia.

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RyanT

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Not bad, but nothing original. Her last solo top 10 was 2013! think this will surely go top 5 and possibly #1

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Nu No

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Not so sure about it going even TOP 10 but it does have higher changes than her most recent songs.

She will most certainly at least go TOP 40 (her last TOP 40 as a lead artist was already in 2016 too).

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MsSmoothMcknight

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It don't have to be original.