7 Aurelius first produced the song while playing his keyboard in 2016 and got Chris Stylez to sing demo vocals over the track.

DJ Envy responded with "Ok, Kanye West is gonna be on the season premiere of Tales", to which Irv Gotti replied "I didn't say it!

[5] West's manager stated that their team didn't want the song to be commercially released as it would affect the promotion for his upcoming album Yandhi.

The lyric "We'll be, brothers forever" talks about the relationship between Kanye and his dead best friend Virgil Abloh, who passed away from cardiac angiosarcoma, a rare type of cancer on November 28, 2021, at the age of 41.

In the early leaks of the song, Kanye becomes overwhelmed by emotion while singing and begins to cry on the mic.