On “Consideration,” Rihanna considers the scope of her career. She wants to be considered a serious artist, not just an entertainer, which to Rih means writing and producing her own work.

On ANTi, Rihanna has a writing credit on every song aside from “Same Ol' Mistakes,” compared to zero writing credits on her fifth album Loud.

Although the song served as the perfect opener for ANTI it was originally intended to be on SZA’s 2017 album Ctrl. In an interview with i-D Magazine , SZA said she performed the song for Rihanna and Pharrell during a writing camp and was reluctant to give it up. SZA even attributed the loss of “Consideration” as part of the reason her own album was so delayed. In the interview she said:

CTRL probably would have been completed a year earlier had I kept Consideration. That was the centerpiece. I shot a video for it and everything.