Jessie Reyez Recruits Daniel Caesar For A Show-Stopping 'Figures'

Jessie Reyez wrote her stark song "Figures" while "just... A disaster she told MTV News earlier this year in a revealing Push: Artist to Watch interview. The aggravation comes through in the song, as Reyez sings it, though there's also a sense of relief in getting it all down in a segment of art.


once she performed it at the Juno Awards of 2018, Reyez — who also won Breakthrough Artist — enlisted the help of singer-songwriter Daniel Caesar help to bring it to life.


Reyez started familiarly, plucking the song's four chords and delivering the opening verse and chorus with just her voice and guitar. Although soon, she put the musical instrument down and walked the range of the stage, alone with microphone in hand as a backing musical group did the rest.


Caesar joined for 1/3 verse, and then the pair sweetly closed down the song side by side.


Caesar performed two of his own songs throughout the show and was nominated for five awards, including Artist of the Year, and won for R&B/Soul Recording of the Year for his album, Freudian. Caesar also helped Chance the Rapper premiere a then-new song on The Late Show in fall 2017 that later came to be titled "First World Problems."


you could watch the team-up above, then watch Reyez break down the genesis of "Figures" in the MTV News interview below.