Chance The Rapper

Joe's a little bit older than us, but, like, we all, like, kind of...

you know, around, not to toot my own horn, but around the time between Ask Rap and Color and Book Chicago, you know what I'm saying?

And that's also because of so many artists, you know what I'm saying, releasing at the same time.

But in this time period, a lot of artists and a lot of like adjacent, you know,

you know, creatives all had this big surge and we all, you know, grew from that.

And so I called up all the people that I knew I had worked with that had supported me in the past and was like, yo, I'm about to start working on a project.

It's crazy that that was five years ago now.

But,

one of the people that I reached out to was Vic.

Because it's like, I do my best verses when I know I have to go against you on a song.

And I would love to just have your discipline.

What Vic has that I don't necessarily always have is he's a very disciplined... This nigga meditates.

He does certain things that's like...

since we were kids, that was just always weird to me.

And when, now we old, I'm just being honest.

Now we're older.

Now I'm like, I wish I had that discipline.

And so me and Vic started like, we would take trips out to LA together and just like be at this house that I was running and just be making songs, making songs, making songs.

So my newest single, Tree,

It's from a session in like 2022 with Smino, where Smino came through the crib and kicked it with me and Vic, brought his producer Groove.