On “Brand new” Lakeyah and Layton Greene discuss relationship struggles due to mistrust caused by their significant other. The track marks her first collaboration with Layton Greene. Lakeyah also revealed that they would be working on multiple tracks together.

On June 17, 2022, on the EP’s released date, Lakeyah discussed the track on Power 105.1:

We have songs together but I feel like this one is really, really nice and it’ll be like a comeback for her as well […] a lot of her fans especially her’s have been waiting for us to collab since when we were doing our own freestyles I think it’ll be nice. […] I had recorded it recently, well not super recent but I’ve had it, and uhm I just wanted someone that could really blow on the hook, and I had a couple of people in mind but I was like “it’s time for me and Layton to do a track together” so I felt like that was the easiest one to, you know what I’m saying…