Lojay

Initially, when I made “Somebody Like You”, the intention was to create something different, compared to what was already out in

the market for Afrobeats. I just was sifting through different like beats with SARZ, just trying to find something that I felt was

kind of unique in a sense. Then he played the beat for Somebody Like You, and I instantly just gravitated towards it. It just felt

very nostalgic. I think the lyrics kind of just followed in that same direction. Once I started singing to it, the first thing

that just came out of my mouth was; “summertime in Abuja… reliving the simpler days”. I just kind of built the idea from there. It

actually took a while to finish because after I created the first verse, I had other ideas for a chorus and everything. I

revisited the song sometime after, and when I did, it just felt like everything I needed to say in the song had just come. So I

kind of scrapped everything and started with just the first verse and just entered into a new vibe with the song. The song kind of

made itself in a way, because over time, I think it was just a reflection of all the things I was feeling based on the nostalgia

the instrumentals was giving me and everything. I just felt like I knew what and who I wanted to talk about with that song. And

that (person) was my first love. It all ended up being Somebody Like You.

It was a seamless process because he (Sarz) is not the kind of producer that tries to get in your face. He wants you as an artist

to do your thing. If anything, it’s almost like he’s just trying to get the best out of the artist by letting them be themselves

and not trying to distract their process with his own ideas. It was really fun. When the EP (LV N ATTN) dropped, Monalisa (from

the EP) just started popping on its own. The song just came from nowhere and started doing its thing. As that was happening, we

were like yeah, a remix would be nice and by the end of last year (2021), we were already thinking of doing a remix. We basically

just sent it out to different people that we had in mind that we would want on the remix. Chris Brown was one of them because he

just floated so effortlessly on Afrobeats and we just felt like he was one of the people who could take it to a whole new place

and still maintain the same essence. There was an air of uncertainty until that happened and then all of a sudden it was time to

go.