The latest offering from one of Seattle’s brightest MC’s features a bouncy beat, a soulful, catchy hook, a collection of dope rappers and a necessary message: don’t wait, do, take what’s yours. It’s the type of song (and video) that inspires you to move, create and work on the projects you’ve always want to work on.

We thought it would be fun to hear from the people featured on the track. How did the project come their way, what did they think of the work? So, without further ado, here are their voices:

Spek: I played the beat for Mic Flont a few months ago and he immediately came up with the concept, and ended up taking the song to Paolo who wrote the hook. Interestingly, he’s probably responsible for being a producer on this song as much as I am, in the sense that he really put the pieces together, got Khingz on the record, and all that. Sonically, I definitely wanted to craft a summertime vibe. I took a lot of time to chop that piano sample so it bounced the right way, and then I sent to Begin Scarseth, who wrote a bunch of catchy violin licks.

Paolo Escobar: The song idea was introduced to me by Mic, we had collaborated on a few things before and I was stoked to be working with Spek again and working with Khingz for the first time on a record. The song itself was very relevant to how my life has been working as of late so I found it particularly easy to write this hook. The message of the song should vibrate well with how Seattle musicians (or any artist) live their lives: work hard in the day and work harder on art whenever there is any time open! Its always a pleasure to work with my OTOW brothers and Spekulation, and that mutual sentiment, I feel, shows a lot on this Seattle/ Beacon Hill summer jam! OTOW is the motto!

Mic Flont: “Can’t Wait” was originally supposed to be a collab between me and Spek. He sent me home with a couple beats one night and I wrote the verse. I showed Paolo before I gave it back to Spek and he liked it and came up with the hook. Spek was feeling it and wrote his own verse. Now with the third verse I was trying to get Slim Kid 3 (formerly of the Phrarcyde) on it but he was out of the country so I tried to figure out who could make as big of an impact and Khingz might be the dopest rapper I’ve ever heard so I knew he’d kill it and of course he did!

The back bone of the track is in the writing but the magic in the track came in post production. When spek added the violinist and absolute madman on the cuts it brought the track to life like an inker inking a comic strip. When you add that with the fun of summer time on Beacon Hill, you get what you saw in the video. Beacon hill is in the middle of an artistic Renaissance right now and this track totally embodies it!

Khalil Equiano (aka Khingz): I believe it was Mic Flont who first told me about the song and was like “get wit it.” Either he or Spek sent me a version that had both their verses on it. Mic’s was dope, I hadn’t listened to too much of Spekulation at this point and thought his verse had a real good flow to it. Kinda slithered into the groove where as Mic jumps on a beat. I wanted to hop on with another point of view of the subject matter. The idea of personally taking control over your life took another turn for me with all the publicized police brutality. While I was traveling around the world doing music my little brothers might be killed and blamed for their own murder. I wanted to inspire people to leave behind the victim mentality and do like our parents and ancestors did and fight for the value of our life. And if we don’t we will get treated even worse. Remember while right now is crazy this is the best it’s been for black people in this country so far. Like I’m not voluntarily going back in time unless we’re going to ancient Egypt. This is better then it was for my mom’s generation but that is all the more reason to keep struggling for better. ‘Cuz it’s working. and we see it working. There’s a lot of pain in the world but everywhere people are hurt there is someone working to heal and we should join them. It’s pretty much be hurt or be a healer out here.