Bleta "Bebe" Rexha was born on 30 August 1989, in Brooklyn, New York City into an ethnic Albanian family from North Macedonia. She took lessons and learned to play trumpet, and subsequently taught herself to play guitar and piano, and she attended Tottenville High School on Staten Island, where she sang in the choir and took part in a variety of musicals. As a teenager she submitted a song to be performed at the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences' annual "Grammy Career Day" event, and earned the "Best Teen Songwriter" award, beating around 700 other entrants. As a result, she signed a contract with talent scout Samantha Cox, who encouraged her to enrol in song-writing classes in Manhattan. In 2010 she met Fall Out Boy's bassist Pete Wentz and worked with him for a time in the band Black Cards, and when she left the group in 2013, she signed as a solo artist with Warner Bros. Records. Some of her songs had been recorded by artists like Selena Gomez and Nikki Williams, but her most prominent song-writing credit was for Eminem's and Rihanna's 'The Monster', which was released as the fourth single from Eminem's album 'The Marshall Mathers LP 2' in 2013. In March 2014 she released her debut single, 'I Can't Stop Drinking About You', which peaked at number 22 on the US Top Heatseekers chart, and in December she released two more singles, 'I'm Gonna Show You Crazy' and 'Gone'.
On 12 May 2015 she released her debut EP, 'I Don't Wanna Grow Up', and she also co-wrote and was featured on David Guetta's single 'Hey Mama', alongside Nicki Minaj and Afrojack. After meeting Minaj's manager, Gee Roberson, she asked if Minaj would contribute to a new song, and in March 2016 they released the single 'No Broken Hearts'. In October Rexha released 'I Got You' as a taster for her upcoming album, which was also to include 'No Broken Hearts', but the direction changed from a full studio album to a multi EP project, and 'No Broken Hearts' was scrapped, making 'I Got You' the first and only single from 'All Your Fault: Pt. 1', which was released on 17 February 2017. The EP peaked at number 51 on the Billboard 200, and she began her first solo headlining tour, promoting the EP across North America and Europe. This wasn't the first time that Rexha had ditched recordings from a proposed release, as while the 2015 EP 'I Don't Wanna Grow Up' did feature five tracks, that was only about a quarter of what was recorded for it, and so here are the other fourteen songs which were rejected at the time. Rexha does have a witty turn of phrase in her song titles, and so this album is called 'Kill Me Back To Life'.
Track listing
01 Cry Wolf
02 Kill Me Back To Life
03 Bad Bitches Don't Cry
04 Die Tonight (Kiss Me)
05 Mistake Like You
06 Worst Way
07 24/7
08 Rome Is Burning (feat. Sam James)
09 Starlight
10 Over This Love
11 You're A Bitch
12 The Lucky Ones
13 Dead Man Walking
14 Battle Cry (feat. Havana Brown)
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