#l.marshall

The way that it came about was Yogi (the producer) wanted to pitch a song to Tinie Tempah just after “Pass Out” and they asked me to come in as a topliner and write the chorus. They liked my performance so basically they said ‘Why don’t you just stay on as the featured artist and we’ll pitch it that way?’ Tinie never got back to us but Wretch did, and I’m not really sure how that happened but I’m happy that it did. Wretch loved the record. He went and he did his verses then came into the studio and we had a chat. He wanted to do a slow-down part to the song, which is what happens in the middle eight, where the whole beat slows down. That was his idea, we did that...The only change I can really remember in the chorus was the bit where Wretch says “stack P’s every day” used to be “smoke weed every day”. But (the fact that) Wretch doesn’t smoke weed is the known fact in the industry, so he asked me to change that, which is very reasonable as far as I’m concerned. It was very straightforward. I don’t think any of us expected it to do what it did. It just did. I probably spent about an hour on the record. I write fairly fast. I wrote the chorus in about 20 minutes. They don’t all go that quickly.