The vibe of the day was I had lost my voice, I was in the studio and I wasn't sounding as I wanted.
My sound engineer was laughing at me. So I became more cranky, but we made it work. The first
version I wasn't feeling, because of my voice. Then the next day I went to the studio and I did it
again. And it came out amazing. Back then, I always used to make songs about confidence and being
that girl. But this was one of those songs that’s about love, being sexy and you know, a boy. I'm
usually not the best at writing love songs. I can write a heartbreak song in my sleep, but you see
the other way around is so hard for me. So when I heard the song, I was like, wait, this is sexy.
There was like a whole intervention for me. My team were very dramatic. They had a call and were
like, “Ayra, we need to talk to you. We think you should release Gimme Dat”. I was like, okay, “why
are there 15 people on the phone? It's not that deep”. I went home, I told my mom and she told me to
just pray about it and think about it. I said, okay, I'm ready. Let's take it to mixing. Let's
master it. Let's release it. We had shot the video already literally like four months before. I
co-directed this video but didn’t really like it. So I was like, okay, let's send it to Wizkid. He
said, “I love the song. I'm going to do it, I got you.” Wizkid recorded the song in like three days.
Nobody else would have been right on that song asides from Wizkid. Even just his sonics and the
sound, the chorus pattern was definitely very Wizkid. It feels very like sexy Afrobeats. And
everybody knows Wiz is the king of sexy Afrobeats. In the first music video, I had long hair and
that was a whole era for me. Then I was like instead of shooting something entirely new, I can just
show people how like I'm leaving that era behind. So I came out of the car like a phoenix with my
new my short hair. We just combined two stories into one.
