Ari Lennox

My writing process, it basically is just me and an amazing producer in the studio, and he's...

Or she is making an incredible beat and I may feel led to pull out a voice note and, you know, mumble a bit or you get the composition book out right or get the phone out right.

Like with Pretzel, for instance, I was just driving down 95 into 85 and had the beat, this cardiac instrumental on repeat and

Yeah, I'm thinking, okay, pretzel.

And kind of also looking at the internet, like, okay, like, what are ways that people can make a pretzel and things of that nature?

And then I started thinking of yoga as well.

Like, what are the terms for yoga?

And that kind of all just made pretzel happen.

Not even necessarily a situation or a man, because nobody has been flipping and folding me.

Okay, no one.

That's what I thought when I heard it.

I said, who is putting that thing down, flipping it?

Not a damn soul.

I was going to ask you, too, though, like, do you because I know, obviously, a lot of the times when people are in a studio and they hear the beat, then they're like, OK, I have the perfect lyrics to write down for these.

But then I know a lot of the time artists, too, like they'll just already have lyrics ready for a song.

Like, so do you ever just write when something happens to you and you're like, OK, I already have a song for this when you hear the beat?

No, because that's just not exciting to me.

I'm literally a very present person.

If this is on my mind, if this comes to my mind right now, or if I'm experiencing this right now, and this beat is making me feel amazing or mad or whatever, then it's easy to pair those situations.

But I don't usually write...