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On “Ain’t No Way”, Denzel Curry recluts a star-studded feature list with 6LACK, Rico Nasty, Jasiah and JID talking about the insecurities of fame in their lives in a aggressive trap-influence beat by Denzel’s frequent collaborator, Powers Pleasant.
The track was confirmed during a March interview with Loud and Quiet, where Denzel mentions that his frequent collaborator Robert Glasper played the keys on the track, saying:
"We were almost wrapped when he came in"
The song credits Powers Pleasant and Kitty Ca$h, who are the producers of the beat, and also, during an interview with Bootleg Kev between the released week of "Melt My Eyez See Your Future", Denzel confirmed that Buddy was in the outro without the credit on the song.
“Ain’t No Way” marks the first collaboration between JID with both Rico Nasty and Jasiah, as well as 6LACK’s first time collaborating with Denzel, Rico, and Jasiah, respectively.
"You would think it’s a hard song to pull off but the night we recorded that shit, it felt like it was the easiest thing that ever happened. Everybody was there. The link-up was crazy because I went there for a Jasiah session and Jasiah was working on his song called ‘'Art of War’'. So I go outside to start writing my verse for it. Rico Nasty is next-door and I didn’t even know she was in the same building. Rico Nasty comes out the same time I come out to write my verse. I called her name three times, ‘'Rico, Rico, Rico’‘. We started chopping it up and then we go into the room with Jasiah and I’m like, ’‘Look who I ran into?’‘ So now Jasiah and Rico are chopping it up. We’re all in there just vibing. Next thing, she’s like ’‘Yo, I’m finna call JID’‘. She calls JID and tells JID to pull up. I didn’t know JID was with 6LACK at the time. We’re just thinking JID gon’ pull up. JID pulls up with 6LACK. We call Powers at around the same time. We’re like, ‘'Powers, you got to come to this session. You got to’‘. He was doing some other shit, he’s like, ’‘Aight, I’m on the way’‘. He brought his laptop, he comes through. Now it’s a lot of us. Next thing you know, we’re experimenting some shit. This motherfucker Jasiah is turning up on the couch, yelling ’‘Ain’t no way’‘. We’re freestyling over this beat that Powers played and it had two halves to it. I don’t know what happened but this nigga JID was like Quincy Jones that night. This man started organising the track like, ’‘Ayy, whatever you say right now, do that shit right now. Go in the studio and record that shit’‘. So Jasiah just keeps yelling, ’‘Ain’t no way, ain’t no way, ain’t no way, ain’t no way’‘ like kinda on some bridge type shit. Then JID goes and tell 6LACK, ’‘6LACK, we need you to do this hook’‘. He goes in there like, ’‘Ain’t no way niggas still doubt me after this shit’‘, he does that. Then he goes, ’‘Rico, you need to write this verse right now and you need to go after Jasiah’‘. He’s organising all this shit, he’s like, ’‘Denzel, where do you want to go?’‘ So I’m like, ’‘Man, as long as I’m on this shit, I don’t give a fuck where I’m at’‘. 'Cause it was so many of us. He’s organising everybody, JID kinda got this experience through the ‘'Revenge Of The Dreamers’' shit. He’s conducting everybody. JID goes in, ’‘Ain’t no way I ain’t gon’ Shawshank from out the shit'‘, he does his verse. I’m sitting there writing, he gets out the booth, ’‘Denzel, what you got?’‘ I started spitting my verse, he says, ’‘That’s it, go in there’‘. So I go in, I do my verse and then 6LACK shows up with a bunch of females. So 6LACK is recording the ’‘Oh, oh, oh’‘ part and then the song’s completely done. They did a third track, but I went home. It was getting to late. And they sent Ain’t No Way to me. Originally we wanted Rico to have it, that was supposed to be Rico’s record. But David was like, ’‘It’s all fair game. Whoever wants it, can have it’‘. To be honest with you, I didn’t want any features on the entire album. The only feature was supposed to be T-Pain. But when it came down to the final stages, nobody’s claiming this record. It was gonna be hard for Powers to clear it. Rico didn’t want it, even though I felt like it fit for her. My management was like, ’‘Why don’t we just put this record on the album?’‘ I was on the fence about it at first because I was like, ’‘How the fuck we gonna get all this shit cleared?’‘ So many people. So later on I added more to my verse 'cause it was short, the same length as JID’s verse. I added more to it and Robert Glasper started adding his keys over it. Next thing you know, the song was completed."
-Denzel Curry, via The Bootleg Kev Podcast
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