"Comme moi" (English: "Like Me") is a song by French-Guinean rapper and songwriter

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featuring Colombian singer-songwriter

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. It was released on March 31, 2017 as the fifth official single from ''

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''. It was also included on Shakira's album ''

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''. Included on the latter album is also an English version of the song titled "What We Said" by Shakira featuring

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Background and release

On 16 October 2016,

revealed that he has a collaboration with

titled "Comme moi" on his second studio album

Éternel Insatisfait ''Éternel insatisfait'' (, English: ''Never Satisfied'') is the second studio album by French-Guinean rapper and songwriter Black M. The album was released on October 28, 2016, by Wati B and Sony Music Entertainment. The album features collaborat ...

, and that the song will be released as a single later. On 25 October 2016, Black M released an exclusive preview of "Comme Moi" on ''

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''. The song starts with Shakira singing in a romantic

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style in English, before it switches up to a

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beat and Black M's rap rhymes in French.

Music video

The music video for "Comme moi", filmed in November 2016, was released on 31 March 2017 and features

in a blonde wig and

in a black tang top. It had a purple set and a black and white set. The video was viewed over 2 million times in the first 24 hours on

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English version

The English version of the track, titled "What We Said", was released on May 26, 2017 on

’s eleventh studio album ''

''. It features Canadian

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band

. This is the second collaboration between the two as the band was featured on Shakira’s 2014

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tenth studio album on a track called "Cut Me Deep".Shakira-What We Said - Comme moi English Version
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