Come Down

“Come Down” is the fourth single from Anderson .Paak’s sophomore LP "Malibu". The song was produced by Hi-Tek, and is notable for its groovy bass line and chant vocals. The official remix features a guest verse from T.I.

The song was featured in a Nike commercial for Kevin Durant’s new signature shoe, the Zoom KD9. As well as the Madden 17 main-menu tracklist.

Producer Hi-Tek talked about how the song came together:

"That beat—well, the bassline—I recorded that idea during the second Reflection Eternal album. I kept going back to it every so often, but I could never find the right drum pattern for it. One day, in 2015, I finally figured it out. I was chopping these drums up and it just clicked in my head, so I went back to that bassline. It was maybe 100 BPMs at the time, so I slowed it down—the Anderson .Paak joint is 98 BPMs, so I didn’t have to slow it down too much—but I slowed it down and added it to the drum track."

Anderson had DM’d me on Twitter and said:

"‘Wassup, I’m trying to get some stuff from you. I’m wrapping my album up. I wanna see what you got.’ So I asked him what he was looking for and he said, ‘I want a ‘Devil’s Pie’-type joint.’ I was like, ‘Yo, God works in mysterious ways. I got it already!’ I had just worked on the track like three weeks before he hit me up."

"I sent him the track. He hit me right back asking for a couple more. Usually, when artists do that, it means they don’t like what you sent them . A month later, he hit me out of the blue and was like, ‘I’m working on your joint tonight.’ Then he hit me back a few days later and sent me the finished vocals, and I was like, ‘Wow, this shit’s outta here!’ I asked him, ‘Anything else you hearing on the track?’ He was like, ‘Think you can add some guitar?’ That’s where you hear more of the rock-type guitar when his verse starts, that was his idea. I had my man Cameron Brown—great guitarist, a young cat from Cincinnati—he played those guitar parts."

"The way he attacked it reminds me of, like, James Brown. I salute Anderson, man. He gave me a chance to reinvent that Hi-Tek sound. That’s what people like from me."