He broke how the song came together in annotations on Genius.

There was a lot of mystery around the release of Kendrick Lamar’s fourth studio album, DAMN., but a few days before its release, TDE dropped the full credits to the project. While Rihanna and U2 were originally listed as the album’s only features, Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Zacari popped up as a feature on the song “LOVE.” a few hours later.

If his name sounds familiar it’s because he was featured on Isaiah Rashad’s “Wats Wrong” alongside Kendrick Lamar, and subsequently Ab-Soul’s “RAW (Backwards).” He recently broke down his involvement on the song in a few annotations on Genius.

On “Love,” Zacari lays down the song’s hook, but he actually wrote an entire song to the Teddy Walton-produced track. If you listen closely, you’ll hear his airy vocals floating around under Kendrick’s melodic delivery:

He played the track for Kendrick late last year and within a day, TDE requested the stems to the track. As for its message, he explains:

You can read more of his verified annotations and all of the lyrics to “LOVE.” on Genius now.