Songfacts®:

• This ode to a drinking session in a pub finds Digga D getting "white-boy wasted." Though he grew up in West London listening to Jamaican reggae and dancehall, the MC says here his father is from East London. This makes him an honorary cockney white man who gets lit drinking strong Stella Artois beer.
• Better known as a hardcore drill rapper, the song finds Digga D spitting his rhymes over T2 featuring Jodie Aysha's club classic, "Heartbroken."
  
  "I still listen to it now," Digga D told Apple Music of the 2007 bassline hit. "I grew up around older family members who were always listening to this type of stuff."
  
  Digga replicates the bridge of "Heartbroken" on the chorus, then samples Jodie Aysha crooning the original version.
• Digga D first previewed the song in the East London jewelers establishment Trotters Jewelers' YouTube video with him in April 2021. The Ladbroke MC was initially in two minds about dropping it as a single because it's not the sound his fans know him for, but when a hacker breached his online accounts, a rough version of "Wasted" leaked on YouTube and his audience demanded its release.
  
  This gave Digga the push to drop the track. He invited Brighton rapper ArrDee to contribute a guest verse and released the song on August 12, 2021.
• Jacob Manson (KSI's "Houdini") and Finn Wigan (BackRoad Gee's "Party Popper (Remix)") supplied the production.
• Bassline is a style of UK garage that comprises a four-to-the-floor rhythm and a strong emphasis on bass. Digga D previously contributed to a UK garage-style instrumental when he jumped on Rudimental's December 2020 single "Be The One."
• DJ Khaled previously sampled Jodie Aysha's vocals from "Heartbroken" on his 2017 Drake-featuring single "To the Max."