This is a collaboration between Kanye West and the Teriyaki Boyz, a Japanese hip hop supergroup that includes members of RIP Slyme and m-flo. The 4 rappers are well known in the Japanese scene and the DJ is Nigo, the founder of A Bathing Ape.

The title “I Still Love H.E.R.” is an allusion to Common’s song ‘I Used to Love H.E.R.’ In the Teriyaki Boyz song, it stands for ‘Hontō E Rap’ (or Hontō ii Rap) and in Common’s it stands for ‘Hearing Every Rhyme’ or ‘Hip hop in its Essence is Real’. The common Japanese phrase Hontōni best translates to English as ‘really?’ but the root of the word, Hontō or 本当, means truth or reality. Because of this, we can read the Teriyaki Boyz version of H.E.R. as “Real Rap” or “True Rap”.