This is Jorja Smith’s second single following her debut, “Blue Lights”. It was produced by Seemore and mastered by Engine Earz.
“Prince” incorporates a pitched-down sample from Henry Purcell’s “A Prince of Glorious Race Descended”.
She recounts where she discovered the sample in an interview with Dazed:
I heard it in my A-level music class! I was like, “This is really good… Sir, what is this?” and I jotted down the name of the track.
The music video was animated by Yao Xiang and took over 6 months to create, due to each frame being hand-drawn. On the making of the video, Jorja Smith stated:
I didn’t say how I wanted it, I just played her the song and said “This is what it’s about, do your thing” and she did!