#Fiona Apple Collaborates With the Real Shameika on New Song: Listen

Fiona Apple has shared the music video for her Fetch the Bolt Cutters song “Shameika.” The visual is directed by Matthias Brown. And the voice at the begin of the clip belongs to the Shameika Stepney, Apple’s former schoolmate who inspired the song. Watch below.

Along with the new video, Fionna Apple has collaborated with Shameika, who has been rapping for decades, on a new track called “Shameika Said.” Hear that below, too.

For more on how “Shameika Said” came to be, and how Fiona Apple and Shameika Stepney recently reunited for the first time since elementary school, read Jenn Pelly’s exclusive interview, “Meet Shameika Stepney, Inspiration to Fiona Apple on Fetch the Bolt Cutters.”