Dancehall makes you wanna gyrate, which influenced “Work” a lot. This was 2015… I was making a lot hip-hop music and sometimes you just get burnt out and you’re like “you know what… I missed

listening to Sean Paul, I missed listening to Beenie Man”. I used to go to house parties sometimes when I was a teenager and they’d play reggae music and people would be banging on the walls. I’m

like I miss that energy because we didn’t have that energy. So a couple of producers of mine and myself were just messing around with dancehall sounding beats and just having fun. I ended up giving

that beat to PARTYNEXTDOOR. He had said “hey I’m in the studio with Rihanna right now, we’re working on records, I need something fun”. At the time, nobody was really making anything with that kind

of bop and that rhythm… sending that to him for Rihanna who… her last biggest song was “Diamonds”. Sending that personally was a risk… but they ended up working on the song and when I heard it, I

knew immediately, this is outta here.