"I want to recreate the same feeling that Stevie Wonder, Prince and Marvin Gaye brought to R&B music," Harris tells Billboard. But importantly, this isn't just an homage to the past. Much of the EP is produced by Hit Boy (and appears on his HS87 imprint), whose credits include a handful of the most vital songs of the 2010s: among them, Kanye West and Jay Z's "N---as in Paris," Kendrick Lamar's "Back Seat Freestyle," Beyonce's "XO," and Drake's "Trophies." These are huge, triumphant tracks full of the pulsing energy of the present.
