Just the idea of being able
to have eye contact with someone
and for that to be enough just to lift you up.
All you need to do is
just see this person's eyes,
you know, and then you're in a different place.
I think it's a very pure message
and a very kind of simple one
and I think everyone's looking for that kind of,
that kind of thing at the moment.
The best part about working with Clean Bandit
is like they're their own creatives.
I really respect that, you know?
I like people that take care of their own shit
and like, they know what they wanna do with it.
So, because I'm the same way,
so that's definitely something that I really,
I really fucked with about them.
They showed me the song,
and off the rip, I really fucked with it
'cause it gave me like a tropical vibe.
My favorite thing working with Iann,
I don't know, he was so open
and just ready to explore,
and totally willing to collaborate.
At first, we were working remotely
and that can get even more awkward in itself,
but he was just so chilled and so nice,
he's just such a nice guy.
He's got such a diverse range
in terms of the types of songs he can deliver.
And you can hear some of his tracks that
sound like really grungy,
almost like, it gives me Offspring vibes.
Then he could also just flip out
the kind of emotional side as well,
which was really important for this song.
Going on beyond that into kind of his actual,
obviously he's like a ridiculous rapper as well,
so adding that aspect,
it forced us to really push the production.
Something that really gets under my skin is a liar.
I don't fuck with liars.
And there's a lot of liars around here,
so, you know, that's definitely one thing
that gets under my skin,
'cause you know, if you just kept it a buck with me
we wouldn't have a problem.
It's really just saying like,
that everybody's the same.
I'm no different than you are,
and you're no different than me,
so, I can't tell where I end
and where you begin.
I feel like a lot of people nowadays
kind of confuse it and feel like
they're entitled to their own opinins
and they feel like they're bigger
than somebody else, but everybody's the same bro.
If I cut you, you're gonna bleed just like I would.
One thing that makes me feel good
and makes myself feel invincible is
just acting like I don't care.
You kinda forget what they did to you
and just kind of remember that you're the shit,
you know what I'm saying?
Like, nobody could take you down.
So, you could try to, but at the end of the day
I'm feeling good. I feel incredible.
Times like that where I felt that way
was whenever I was chasing a relationship.
You kinda don't realize
that you're going,
that you're sinking, but
in the moment, it just, it doesn't matter
so I would just keep chasing her and chasing her
until, you know, I was completely submerged under water.
Getting out of it was like, letting go,
and I know that that sounds so simple,
but whenever you're in a situation like that
it's not as easy as you think.
It's easier said than done.
Yeah, it took a little while
but I let that person go
and everything just kind of opened up for me.
It was like the world was
waiting for me to do that.
One thing that really lifts my spirits,
especially right now, with everything going on
is just being around my family.
Just being around them and seeing them happy
definitely lifts my spirits, for sure.
But in the song, I was talking about the girl.
When I look in her eyes
I just feel higher, higher, higher.
I would get high off this girl,
and there was no other feeling like it.
In the second verse,
it's like a kind of extension of
my own personality and who I am,
'cause at the end of the day, we'll have our problems,
but I'm still gonna pop out with you, no lie
Like I'ma pull out with you,
I'm gonna show you off,
I'm gonna show you how I move.
Whether we're having problems or
we're not having problems,
you know, we should always be having a good time.
In that part of the verse,
what I was saying, what I was envisioning
is just me looking at her and
she just looks sexy as hell.
You know, she got the fit on,
she got her hair did, nails did
all that shit.
I don't know, I like a girl with substance
I like a girl that's mature,
that I don't have to tell you what to do,
you're independent as hell.
I'ma have to call you and see where you at.
We ended up going to Jamaica,
we shot the video, made the song over there,
and it was a good vibe.
We went to the Bob Marley studio.
We hit a few spots, iconic scenes in Jamaica
and it was honestly super refreshing.
I mean, honestly, we we're just having fun
the whole time, and that's why it made
the video feel like super natural.
We got to work on it in Tuff Gong, in Kingston,
which is this amazing studio
with this insanely rich musical history.
'Cause to begin with, we were working in lockdown
and only working remotely on Zoom and whatever.
So to be finally actually
be in a studio together,
especially in a place like that,
was just a dream come true.
Whatever genre I'm doing,
or whatever genre I'm making, it's an extension of me,
so it's gonna sound like me, regardless.
My next album, I have a bunch of genres involved
in the mix.
So, this is just a song that kind of shows
that I'm going in that direction.