the c-projective metrizability equation is an invariant overdetermined linear geometric pde on an almost c-projective manifold governing the existence of quasi-kahler metrics compatible with the c-projective structure. i will show that the degeneracy locus of a solution to the c-projective metrizability equation satisfying a generic condition on its prolonged system is a smoothly embedded submanifold of codimension 1 which inherits a partially-integrable nondegenerate almost cr structure. phrased differently, this result explicitly links the levi-form of the boundary cr structure of a c-projectively compact quasi-kahler manifold satisfying a non-vanishing 'generalized scalar curvature' condition to the interior metric.