I was actually devastated around this time because I had just lost my laptop. I was working on a different album, which I thought was going to be my

first album. Something happened to my laptop, and I sent it to someone to fix, and they just ran away with it. So, all the music I’d been working on

up till then was gone. I had to start from scratch. “Rare” was one of the last songs on the album. I had this guy called DAP The Contract help me on

that. He’s very great at arranging. I had met DAP through another friend, Seni Saraki. DAP and I would exchange music all the time, and I saw how

mature his perspective was. That was good for me because at the time, I didn’t have too many resources to see all the people I was studying on a

global level, but he gave me the same kind of feeling that I would have expected from those people because of the understanding he had, and he was

also close to home. He helped with the arrangement of “rare.” The song started with me hanging out with Hamzaa one day, and she was playing the

piano. I sent a voice note to her a few days prior, just saying those words, and she sang it that way. That’s how that came together, and we

eventually got DAP to do some additional vocals because I wanted it to sound like gospel or a choir.