Floating over emotive cut “From Time” and sliding into the final seconds of “Wu-Tang Forever,” Jhené Aiko copped the sole female spots on Drake’s much anticipated junior LP Nothing Was The Same (in stores Sept. 24). The Slauson songbird checked in with VIBE to reminisce on how the collabs came together following their “July” mash-up years ago.

“This time around, we actually met and he played me “From Time” and I was like ‘Yeah, I wanna do this. Can I take this home and write to it?’ and he was like, ‘Yeah, take your time,'” she says. “I had it for like a month and a half and I actually wrote something completely different to it. Then right before I sent it to him, I was like ‘No, I wanna say something completely different. I want it to be like this.’ I sent it to him and he was like, ‘Oh my God, I love it.'”

Lifting the concept from her initial acoustic tune “Beautiful Ruin,” the Souled Out singer reveals the words were inspired by true events. “It was one of my true life stories about a guy. I just felt like it was a little too specific to me and I didn’t wanna get on [Drake’s] record, like ‘This is what I’m going through!’ so I decided to have a conversation with him [on the record].”

However, there wasn’t much convo about what would become moody track, “Wu-Tang Forever.”

“I didn’t even know if he was gonna keep it or not,” she says. “I was just like, ‘Dang I really, really like this song. I think it could use a female voice just a little bit.’ I didn’t even know “Wu-Tang Forever” was the name. I was so confused so when people were like ‘Is that you?’ I was like I’ve never done a song about Wu-Tang.”

Read up on Jhené’s future Kendrick collab and more here.