After announcing it on Instagram a few days earlier, on June 17, Diddy finally released his new song, Gotta Move On, featuring Bryson Tiller. And since the song is about moving on after the end of a love relationship, all fans are now asking who Diddy is talking about. In this article, we will analyze the lyrics, deepen their meaning and relate it to Diddy’s private life.
You can find the official video of the song below.
Gotta Move On: inside the lyrics and their meaning
Gotta Move On is a song about the necessity of moving on when it’s evident that the love relationship you recently ended has no more hope and no longer deserves time and thoughts. And it describes the typical phases of a break-up. Let’s see it together.
As we all know, immediately after we break up with our love partners, there is a phase where we keep thinking about it, trying to understand if the emotional connection is still present and worth an effort. If it’s time to drop all hopes or if we should still do “one last attempt” to make it work.
The answer Diddy says to this doubt is now clear:
She don’t want my love, I guess I gotta move on
When you realize that the other half of the relationship has a different intention and won’t put the effort to make the relationship work, it’s usually a clear sign that the relationship needs to end. And when this happens, you typically start to see signs while you are still inside the relationship. That’s what Bryson Tiller sings about in the first verse:
Why you wanna go and text me, baby? Yeah
Degrade me and tell me I’m failing, yeah
Keep tellin’ me things like
You done tryin’ with me, done fightin’ with me, yeah
These lines describe in a detailed way what we generally feel in a relationship where the two parts are not going in the same direction: we feel blamed, and we think we are the ones who lack the efforts, skills, and commitment to make it work.
The next phase is usually the painful awareness that the other half is already taking steps in a different direction. This is usually the final proof that it’s time to move on.
You found a new man, so I gotta move on
Guess you got a new agenda, but you know you barely know, I won’t
Said you’re wrong, guess you had to move on
The last phase of detachment in a break-up is when we rediscover our self-esteem, confirm our values, and realize that if they don’t want us, they don’t deserve us. From this point of view, at that point, we need the inevitable distance from the person we loved to move on entirely.
I can never ever be no one option (Watch it)
Pull up on me but no blogs (No blogs)
Now you wanna say you wanna talk (Wanna talk)
…
Get in your bag, stay in your bag
Getting at the bottom of the meaning of the lyrics, in Gotta Move On Diddy explains what we feel when we break up, when the person we love is going in a different direction, and the process we go through until we focus again on ourselves.
The big question fans are asking is: who is Diddy talking about? Who was the woman in his personal life that triggered these feelings?
Diddy’s personal life and how the song matches it
We know publicly that Diddy had a long relationship with the singer Cassie. They started dating in 2007, and many years later, in 2018, Diddy and Cassie broke up. Cassie immediately began dating Alex Fine, the personal trainer that Diddy hired for her. The immediate suspect Diddy had was that Cassie was already emotionally connected to Alex while with Diddy, but this was never confirmed.
Now Cassie is married to Alex Fine, and the two have two children. Diddy also expressed sincere good wishes to them on social networks. Meanwhile, Diddy is dating Yung Miami publicly, proving that he finally moved on.
So the question is: is it possible that Diddy released the new song, Gotta Move On, in 2022, talking about feelings that he had years before about the need to move on from Cassie? Diddy himself answered in the Instagram reel he shared some days before the song’s release:
I’m finally dropping new music, it’s been a minute. I’m dropping after seven years.Â
I’ve been waiting for this s*** for a long time, to get the frequency back, to get the bop back, that energy back.’
Is Diddy new song Gotta Move On about Cassie?
Given all the things we know, the answer is: yes, Gotta Move On is about what Diddy felt years ago when he broke up with Cassie. The song mentions that she now loves another man, so there is no longer hope for that relationship. And the healthiest step to take is to move on and focus again on ourselves.
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The complete lyrics
She don’t want it, she don’t want it
She don’t want it, she don’t want it
Get in your bag, stay in your bag (She don’t want it)
Get in your bag, stay in your bag (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
She don’t want my love, I guess I gotta move on
Yeah, oh yeah (Oh yeah), oh yeah (Oh nah, woah)
Oh but, if she don’t want my love, I guess I gotta move on
Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, oh no (Come on)
If she don’t want my love, I’m guessin’ I gotta move on, I guess
I guess, I guess, I came a little too strong, I guess
She don’t want my love, I guess I got move on I guess (Gotta movе on)
Yeah
I tried, I done triеd to give it all to you, baby
Brand new Mercedes, a newborn baby, yeah
And I told you your love too lazy, damn
All you had to do was love me, baby, yeah
Man, it gets so frustrating, yeah
Why you wanna go and text me, baby? Yeah
Degrade me and tell me I’m failing, yeah
Keep tellin’ me things like
You done tryin’ with me, done fightin’ with me, yeah
Gave you a ring, I was goin’ off the deep end, yeah
Oh, DeLeĂłn, my drink for the weekend
Sent you some things, yeah, when I was done drinkin’, like
Girl, he with you for the wrong reasons ’cause you was with me
Uh, tell him, “Stop reachin'” (Stop reachin’)
Guess that’s just the jealous in me
I’m salty, I need it, my wounds keep bleeding
You found a new man, so I gotta move on
Guess you got a new agenda, but you know you barely know, I won’t
Said you’re wrong, guess you had to move on
On, on, on, on, said she
If she don’t want my love, I’m guessin’ I gotta move on, I guess
I guess, I guess, I came a little too strong, I guess
She don’t want my love, I guess I got move on I guess (Gotta move on)
Yeah
I guess I gotta move on, I guess
We goin’ up, we goin’ live
Can’t stop, won’t stop, told y’all, uh
See me pull up, no problem (Wash it)
I can never ever be no one option (Watch it)
Pull up on me but no blogs (No blogs)
Now you wanna say you wanna talk (Wanna talk)
Now you wanna say you wanna talk (Wanna talk)
Now you wanna say you wanna, hol’ up
Get in your bag, stay in your bag
Get in your bag, stay in your bag (Yeah, that’s right)
Get in your bag, stay in your bag (Ooh yeah)
Get in your bag, stay in your bag
Gotta move on
Find peace
Serenity
