and this is How It Went Down.

How did How Long start?

It was summer, I was just about to go on tour

with my buddy Shawn Mendes and I put on Hall and Oats

and I heard (vocalizing)

I was like okay, I wanna make a record like that.

I called my buddy Mike Caren, who happens to be my A and R,

one of my A and R's, and I was on the phone with him,

and I was like wouldn't it be cool

if there was, like, a song

called How Long Has This Been Going On?

And each kick drum would be on the lyric.

(vocalizing)

I think I actually put it in F sharp minor first

(vocalizing)

and then he was like that sounds pretty good,

you should go record that.

I had one broken rocket speaker to produce this record on.

Every night after I would get off stage,

I just kind of built the track out even more

and I still want it to be, thematically, with a bass.

(vocalizing)

And my base player Dmitry came in and he had this sick pre-

like, this sick preamp and he plugged it in

and it sounded like bouncy.

(vocalizing)

It sounded like me walking with, like,

a big cup of coffee down the street.

(vocalizing)

Like, like Fat Albert or like Mickey Mouse

when he drops the piano.

It's just like (vocalizing)

Like bouncy.

I had basically the song all in my head

and it was just a matter of dissecting what was in my mind

and just pulling it out of my mind

and just putting it into prosols.

Computer.

♪ How long as this been going on ♪

♪ You've been acting so shady ♪