Amaarae is making her Genius debut, discussing her sultry hit “Angels in Tibet.” Produced by Kyu Steed, Kztheproducer, and Cracker Mallo, the track is off her second album, Fountain Baby. In today’s episode of Verified, Amaarae dives into the creation process of the enchanting track, her artistic inspirations, and much more!
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00:00 This is the most thorough breakdown of any song that I've ever experienced in my life.
00:04 I learned new things about angels in Tibet today, so that's amazing.
00:07 The inspiration for the song started with five or six super creative individuals just
00:19 in the studio getting drunk.
00:20 So we were just playing the beat in the studio, just chilling.
00:23 And I remember just coming off the top like,
00:28 And just kind of freestyling that whole melody.
00:31 And then I remember KZ going, "Bling, bling, bling, bling, bling."
00:34 And I turned around and I was like, "Oh, that's it.
00:37 That's the money right there."
00:38 And yeah, that's how we made the record.
00:40 Just having a lot of fun and being drunk.
00:52 I think about this sexy goddess in the club dancing and just sweating.
00:59 The whole room is just entranced by this person and everyone is just watching.
01:03 That's what I think about.
01:04 I've got the cure to all your life's problems and it's that pussy in a bed.
01:17 And once you connect them, you come out saved.
01:23 I don't know, it's too many girls that's saying that.
01:26 I've got the cure and it's...
01:27 You ever heard a French shorty say, "Louvre Armani"?
01:39 Hot.
01:40 Sexy.
01:41 I spend a bitch like I'm spending a paper.
01:43 That's me consistently stunting on these hoes.
01:45 Okay, keep going.
01:46 I Lindsay Alohan.
01:47 I play with my favorite.
01:48 Y'all be just boring.
01:49 I need the foreign.
01:50 I need Dior.
01:51 I just wanted to put Lindsay Lohan in there.
01:52 So that honestly means nothing.
01:54 How do you Lindsay Alohan?
01:56 Well, I'm starting to think about some of these lyrics and I'm like, "Dang."
02:00 It makes sense, but it also was not supposed to make sense.
02:03 I'll spaz on a nigga like how Lindsay be spazzing on her family.
02:09 I'll pull one up in here.
02:10 So I think that's what I'll Lindsay Alohan means.
02:13 The Dior in the club, take it off in the club.
02:18 Pay homage in the club to the God in the club.
02:22 Play your part in the club.
02:23 Say no more in the club.
02:25 Love and war in the club.
02:26 Shut that door in the club.
02:29 So have you ever seen Nelly's "Hot in Here" video?
02:32 You know that scene where they're all in the basement and then the sprinklers go off?
02:36 That's what that first line is inspired by.
02:38 And I think the love and war thing is just about there's a push and pull.
02:41 Should I?
02:42 Should I not?
02:43 Do I take your number?
02:44 Do we go home together after this?
02:45 That's the love and war of it all.
02:47 When we were writing the song, we were like, "Yo, we should just write a verse that we
02:58 think Thug would say so if we ever get to send it to him, this is the part we want him
03:02 to say."
03:03 That sounds like something Thug would say.
03:05 So that is really just me channeling Thug.
03:09 You know Thug has said something like, "I nut on that fish."
03:12 So that is us flipping, "I nut on that fish" to "I wanna fuck a puddle."
03:15 Shout out to Thug.
03:16 Love you.
03:17 Don't you wanna taste it?
03:18 You guys have probably heard Kings Dead, Kendrick, and Future.
03:31 And Future randomly during his verse goes, "La dee da dee da, slob on me now."
03:36 That's one of my favorite things he's ever done in a song.
03:39 I just thought, how did you just randomly do that?
03:41 So that was my bling, bling, bling, bling, bling.
03:43 I like Chainz on Chainz was my homage to Future doing that in Kings Dead.
03:47 And sure enough, it's the most popular part of the song that everyone loves.
03:50 I wanna give you some super deep reason why that's in there, but I promise you we just
04:02 got to the end of the verse and we was like, "We should just go, just breathe, breathe."
04:06 When we were writing a lot of these songs, a lot of our references were early 2000s music.
04:12 They do a lot of random stuff where it's like, someone will talk at the beginning of the
04:16 verse or someone will talk in the middle of a verse or they'll do a really cool sound
04:20 effect.
04:21 I think I have to shout out probably Timbaland and just some of the stuff that he's done
04:24 with Justin, Tweet, Missy, and how that was influencing this record in particular.
04:29 I think even with "Angels in Tibet," you can hear it in the drums.
04:32 They're very Timbaland inspired.
04:33 First of all, can I get my neck for even putting a bridge in a song?
04:45 'Cause they don't do that today.
04:47 So for me, it's about that moment where you ascend, go from this passionate experience
04:53 with someone on the dance floor, then it moves to the bed and now you're just kind of going
04:56 higher and higher.
04:57 I think it encapsulates that entire experience of just lifting up into a different energy
05:03 and into a different plane and then coming back down.
05:06 I've heard like, "A-ma-ray."
05:14 I've heard "A-ma-ray."
05:15 I've heard "A-ma-ray."
05:16 I've heard "A-ma-ray."
05:18 Honestly, countless versions.
05:20 Some people have just not even bothered to even try to say it.
05:23 Some people just butcher it completely, like "A-ma-ma-ray."
05:26 I'm like, "What's that?"