Okay, getting into Folded.

How did that song come about? Yeah. People think you was talking about somebody. They always do. They always do. But it was an amazing song. Like, everybody singing the kids singing it. I love it. I'm really grateful. It's the most random story that's just like so God orchestrated. I was supposed to work out with this collab. I was supposed to work out this collab that was happening. And the guy was like, I'm about to go on this big tour. Like, you have to come to Miami to finish this song because it was going to be for, we didn't know whose project it was going to be on. Rumor has it. It may still come out. It might be his song. Right. And he was like, but you have to come finish it in person. So I'm like, okay, so I brought me, you know, my executive producer, my creative team, and

the guys that I make music with.

And I was like, let's go to Miami.

Let's finish this song.

Let's maybe like, since we have the studio there, let's make a couple songs.

Let's make a little trip out of it.

For two days, we tried to finish that song.

It just wasn't happening. Like, nothing was happening. I'm also, I find an artist in the studio in, like, the dark rooms and, like, the no windows and all of that. Like, it's a little, like, creatively, uh, I don't know how to explain it. Like, I can't, I can't catch the vibe. Yeah. You need windows. You need vibes.

Right. I need to be able to walk outside and like breathe some air in between all of this

thinking and writing and stuff. And we just couldn't get the collaboration to, to be sorted.

Yeah. And I played him a bunch of music. He played me a bunch of music. We were like,

it just wasn't at the time. And I was like, okay, we don't want to waste our time in Miami. Like, let's go get a studio house. And my boy Don Mills, who plays a guitar on the song, has this, like, studio house. I think it's called The Bungalow. I could have that really wrong, but I think that's what it's called in Miami. And a bunch of us just came there and some other producers joined us. Dre Harris, who's like the goat. He did butterflies, Michael Jackson. He did all the old music Soul Child. He's done brandy. He's done Usher. Like just legendary. He starts playing his beat that him and dk the Punisher um made

it was the first beat that i heard when i got into that house the first day in the studio house

and i was like i'm gonna just take that in the other room i took it don comes in with his guitar

and just plays that do no no no no no no no no i was like great put like, great, put that on there right now. And I just kept singing, come pick up your clothes. I had them folded. And everybody was like, that's really cool. Like, let's expand on that. And I wrote this song with my friend Kamal, who I like to bounce kind of like words off of all the time. And my dixon who's brilliant and he also helps vocal

produce me so me him and my and me them too and my engineer sitting in this room and we're just

like digging into this song and like then my executive producer comes in and goes like but how do

you make this make sense like like I'm not understanding how does it make sense and so we had to you know people are still confused I think about what the song

means what does the song actually mean so come pick them glam clothes up right they

voted right what you know I think that there is this idea that in R&B there's like

these two extremes there's like I hate you you up, I'm done with you, or this begging and pleading, I need you back, X, Y, Z. But Fodin is really this, like, nuanced, like, middle part. That's like, dang, I want you back, but, like, you might have messed up, but I also, I might have overreacted, but also like, I miss you, but also like I really need to tell you that you had me messed up. But also, like, I got your clothes and if you come get them, like something might go down or like we might be able to talk about it. But also like while you hear, I just need to get it off real quick that you got me messed up. I feel you. Yeah. Yeah, like, you know, in the first verse, I say, like, it's so silly in me to act like I don't need you bad. And I'm clearly saying, like, I'm having a reminiscing moment. Yeah. By the end of the verse, I'm saying, like, I walked away instead of asking for a space. That's me saying, like, I probably overreacted. There was probably a situation in which we could have had a conversation, but I got my feelings and I got upset. And now I'm like, you know, come get your clothes. They phone it down. Exactly. So everybody's doing this like, you better, Kalani better than me. I'm going to have the clothes in the... Bleach. Right. Blitz. I'm throwing them out.

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