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• Here, Kane Brown teams up with R&B singer Khalid and Rae Sremmurd rapper Swae Lee for a bouncy country-pop/ hip-hop hybrid. Over a tropical guitar line and finger snaps, each artist contributes a verse about the ups and downs of a relationship.
• All three artists had a hand in penning the song, in which each of them share their individual experiences about how love isn't always easy. Brown kicks off with the chorus and the first verse, where he talks about the roller coaster ride of a tumultuous, but addictive, romance. Swae Lee takes up the baton, continuing the theme of the good and bad of a relationship. Khalid concludes the track with a verse where he discusses how miscommunication can create problems. All three conclude that ultimately they badly need their partner, because "sometimes it be like that."
• Brown explained the song is about the different feelings people have in a romantic relationship and accepting the ups and downs as normal. "When it gets tough, you want to be on your own, but then you miss the person a second later," he added. "I think it's something everyone goes through."
• "Be Like That" is Brown's first song with Swae Lee, but he previously worked with Khalid on a remix of the R&B star's "Saturday Nights" single in January 2019. Khalid and Swae Lee teamed up back in 2017 for "The Ways," a song recorded for the Black Panther soundtrack.
• The production is courtesy of:
  
  Frequent Rae Stemmurd collaborator Mike Will Made It. Swae Lee and his brother Slim Jxmmi are signed to Mike Will Made It's Interscope imprint EarDrummers Entertainment (The name of their duo is Ear Drummers backwards).
  
  Producer Charlie Handsome, who previously worked with Khalid on two of his hit songs: the Texan singer's duet with Normani, "Love Lies," and his solo tune, "Better."
• Shot at the 1940s-era Pink Motel in Sun Valley, California, the video shows the three artists dancing and partying against a variety of retro backdrops.