Songfacts®:

• Fayetteville, North Carolina rapper/singer Morray turned to music as his escape after serving time in juvenile detention and jail. Morray was on the brink of giving up his rap career when manager Moe Shalizi got in touch with him after coming across this song on YouTube.
  
  Through Shalizi, Morray signed with Pick Six Records and released "Quicksand" as his first single on October 30, 2020.
• This sung-rapped autobiographical anthem finds Morray comparing his tough upbringing on the Fayetteville streets to quicksand.
  
  Since a jit stood tall with a kickstand
  Thinking of a plan to get quick bands
  Falling in deep with the quicksand
  
  Since his youth, Morray has wanted to make quick money to escape his life in the hood, but he found himself trapped, unable to find a way out.
• Asked by Billboard what inspired "Quicksand," Morray explained the songs he'd been making were about the standard rap tropes of cars, clothes, money and women, but because he'd never been wealthy or successful himself, he had to "watch videos and listen to music to figure out how to talk about it."
  
  One day, Morray's wife told him the music he was writing wasn't him. "This is a Chris Brown or a Drake or somebody that's already out there," she said. Both "Quicksand" and "Big Decisions" came out of that conversation, which Morray found easier writing because his lyrics actually happened to him.
• Morray co-wrote the song with the track's producers, Ant Chamberlain and Hagan. One of Moe Shalizi's other clients, star electronic producer Marshmello, served as the mixing engineer.