The Importance of Collaboration in Songwriting

I was surprised to learn that hip hop was an early influence for you. My music was rat music, which that golden era of like 1989 to 1994,. Just so many great records were coming out at that time. It just felt so cool to watch Yo and TV raps. And my mom always dated guys who could like play a couple chords on whatever. So I would always like, will you teach me how to play a few chords on the piano? And then I put these raps to these chords.