On how Breland appeared on the track:

I knew about Breland last year because he put out “My Truck” and I heard that track and a few other things he did. Then I read an interview with him around June, I just went, “Man, this guy is really woke. I love this guy.” The way he was talking about music and his creative process, it just spoke to me. I didn’t know him. I got his phone number from a friend and I just cold-called him. We talked for like 45 minutes nonstop and this was on a Wednesday. I said, “Gosh, if you’re ever in town, I really love to see what we could create in the studio with no boundaries, no limitations, just write.” He said, “I’ll come to your house Friday morning. I’ll be there at 10.” And quarter past nine on Friday morning, my phone rings, I’m making coffee, and he goes, “Hey man, I’m outside of your house. I got here a little early.” I said, “You drove here [from Atlanta]? What time did you wake up?” He says “5 o’clock.” We went in the studio and ended up writing a song and another one and another one.

–via Billboard (2020)

I always sequence my albums like it’s a show. I think if anybody were to go back and listen to the first song on every one of my albums you’d be like, “Yeah, that’s how you’d open a show; that would be the first song on the set list.” It just had all the energy and propulsion and genreless-ness that I wanted to open this particular album as well. And then I want a thematic connection that was relative to the time and for a lyric [quotes] “Don’t know just how long/but I’ve been trapped in here quite a while/wonder if I’ll make it out/I miss my friends, I miss the sky/feel like I just live to die. That can’t be what life’s about.” That was it. That was what I wanted to say.

–via Billboard (2020)