The minute he heard Syk play the beat, he knew where the song was headed, “it kind of just reminded me of this digital, cellphone-type text or ringtone,” he recalled during his breakdown of the lyrics with Genius. Is there even another way for an 18-year old kid to draw inspiration? Similar to what Erykah Badu did on her last mixtape, But You Caint Use My Phone, Khalid’s narrative of his relationship in “Location” stems from a digital standpoint. He took the beat back home with him to El Paso, Texas and finished it off by speaking from his own experience with his muse, which in this case, was a girl he had been texting. When Khalid was in the process of writing “Location,” the biggest hit off his debut album American Teen, he was in Atlanta working with Syk Sense (producer of Drake’s “Draft Day”).
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