page_title: To Love & Die
section_title: Composition
hierarchical_section_title: To Love & Die / Composition
caption_attribution_description: Rapper 50 Cent in concert sporting Bling-Bling
context_page_description: "To Love & Die" is a song by American recording artist Jhené Aiko, taken from her debut studio album, Souled Out. The song was released on June 24, 2014, as the lead single from the album. In 2012 Aiko revealed that she would be working with Cocaine 80s and announcing they would feature on the album. The song was written by Aiko, alongside Mac Robinson, Brian Warfield and James Fauntleroy and interpolates 50 Cent's 2003 song "Many Men". "To Love & Die" features Cocaine 80s, with fellow members James Fauntleroy providing vocals and No I.D. handling the production.
  Backed by tripping drum loops and hypnotic, spacey synthesisers, "To Love & Die" is dark and melodic R&B and PBR&B song that lyrically revolves around love and contains confessional lyrics. Upon release "To Love & Die" was met with generally positive reviews from music critics; whom praised the song's production and Aiko's vocals. Commercially the song fared well charting at number forty six on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and number twenty on the US Top R&B Singles and made appearances on German and UK charts.
context_section_description: "To Love & Die" is a contemporary R&B song with a length of three minutes and twenty-three seconds. The song is an "atmospheric" and "sparse" song with R&B "textures" and a  psychedelic twist. Built over a "dark and melodic" production that contains "tripping drum loops and hypnotic, spacey synthesisers," the song also interpolates American rapper 50 Cent’s 2003 cult classic song "Many Men (Wish Death)". Josiah Hughes of Canadian music magazine Exclaim!, noted the song's musical style as being "a hazy, slow-burning R&B jam" built around "breezy" music, "spaced-out vocals and sparse" production.
  "To Love & Die" contains confessional lyrics.
  Lyrically the song revolves around love and affection; with the themes being introduced via lyrics including “‘Cause where I’m from we live by the love, die by the love,”  and “I’m just a prisoner of your army of one/But I’ll fight until the death, or until your heart is won.”
  Commenting on the song's lyrical content Bradley Stern of Idolator said the song's themes revolve around Aiko "falling head over heels in love, preparing to head into war to win herself some much-needed affection: “‘Cause where I’m from we live by the love, die by the love.”"
caption: The song interpolates rapper 50 Cent’s 2003 song "Many Men (Wish Death)".
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