That song, actually, is a song that me and Gorilla Zoe did when I first… This was before I got popping. I knew Zoe and he was working on these mixtapes. He was doing mixtapes every day for 30 days, and he was like “Alright, what’s your beats?” So I was playing him all my beats.

The ‘Birthday Song’ beat is a song that he had used, actually, that Gorilla Zoe had rapped on a long time ago. Then I remember 2 Chainz had reached out to him and asked him if he could use the beat.

He had actually got on the song first for another project. I was actually on there rapping, too. So it was me, Gorilla Zoe, and 2 Chainz on the song. That was a while back. After that, we gave the beat to 2 Chainz and they gave it to Kanye and they did all this stuff.

I remember, 2 Chainz called me like, ‘They took out all your stuff, everything.’ They had to fly back to LA, I fly out to LA to go put back in the hard shit. They said Kanye took out a whole bunch of shit. I had to go back and put the shit back in there. I remember that day. That’s how that came about.

[The song] is way different. It’s not missing nothing. It’s just like if I collab on a beat versus I made a beat by myself.”