Singer-songwriter Liam Payne has been in the studio since the beginning of 2017 working on his solo music. He posted pictures of him on his social media while being in the studio.

At the beginning of May 2017, Hip-hop rapper Quavo from the Hip-Hop group Migos first teased the collaboration. He announced the collaboration during in an interview with Tim Westwood saying, “I just came from a video today. My boy Liam from One Direction. We just shot that. Crazy vid. Crazy visuals. Crazy team. Cool guy, nice guy. It’s goin’ up. I wasn’t even supposed to say that. It’s gonna be a surprise though. Surprise!"

On Wednesday, May 10, 2017, Liam posted on his social media a snippet of “Strip That Down” with beats of the song playing. With the caption of the “Eyes” emoji. A day later, on Thursday, May 11, 2017, Liam revealed the title of the song and rapper Quavo from the Hip-Hop group Migos will be featured on the track. The snippet of the song was Quavo singing his part of the lyrics, “Get down girl, love when you hit the ground, girl”.

Strip That Down is co-written by British singer-songwriter, Ed Sheeran who has worked with One Direction in the past as well. It was confirmed by Liam in an interview.