Bryson had to feature on the project regardless
Bryson Tiller recently appeared on The Breakfast Club where he recounted when DJ Khaled asked him to make a record for his 2016 album Major Key, but was reluctant because of his poor mental health at the time.
Khaled couldn’t take no for an answer and advised him to put it all in the music. “If you go listen to the song that I did for Khaled’s Major Key album [‘Ima Be Alright’], I told him before we did it. He was like, ‘Yo, I need a song!’ This is when I’m like super buzzing,” Bryson explained.
“I was like, ‘I’ma just be honest with you, Khaled, I’m depressed right now. I got a lot going on: lawsuits, people threatening me back in my hometown, all types of stuff.’
“He was like, ‘Nah, man, just put it in the music.’ Every time I listen to [‘Ima Be Alright’] I cringe so hard because I’m like, ‘Man, this is not who I am.’ He eventually ended up bringing me ‘Wild Thoughts.’”
He continued, “He didn’t really care […] ‘Put it in music’ is not always the best thing. Don’t get me wrong, it works. I hate when I’m going through some shit and then I gotta go be [regular].”