“Blackberry Sap” is one of two Ari Lennox solo-cuts from Dreamville and DJ Drama’s collaboration mixtape, D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape.

Lennox and producer J. White Did It previewed the song in an Instagram Live on October 30, 2020. In an Instagram post from March 10, 2022, the song was listed as one of the 80 songs recorded for her second album. Almost three weeks later, the song was officially released on March 31, 2022.

A week after the Dreamville mixtape release Ari took to her Instagram account to post the correct lyrics to the song (many fans were mistakenly singing “Blame me, blame it on me” for the chorus intro.