The Way

Album: You Should Be Here (2015)
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Songfacts®:

  • Kehlani penned this song about her boyfriend, who is evidently very special to her. It finds her hooking up with Chance the Rapper, with whom the Oakland-based singer-songwriter has been friends with since she on appeared on Chance’s SXSW Free The People Showcase.
  • Kehlani told Billboard magazine about the collaboration. "I didn't send Chance the song for him to get in on it. I sent it to get the musical opinion of a friend whose musical opinion I really value. I sent it to him and was just like, 'Check your email, tell me what you think about the song.' He was like, 'Save me a verse for the remix,' and I was like, 'You could totally get on the original.' And he got on the original and it was really great."
  • This was a released as a single from Kehlani's second mixtape, You Should Be Here. The title was more than a passing idea. "It was the day before we left for tour and I took everybody to the beach, deep in the cuts of Malibu and I was just there reflecting like thinking about the people who couldn't leave with us," Kehlani explained to The Boombox. "Either weeded themselves out of my life or passed naturally. It's like, 'You should be here forever.'"

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