Down In Atlanta

Album: single release only (2022)
Charted: 88
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Songfacts®:

  • "Down In Atlanta" is a collaboration between Pharrell Williams and Travis Scott. Pharrell cedes the floor to the Houston rapper, who recounts tales of the high life in the Georgia city.
  • The song marks the third team-up between Pharrell Williams and Travis Scott. Pharrell previously contributed to Scott's 2015 Rodeo track "Flying High" as producer and 2018 Astroworld song "Skeletons" as writer.
  • Williams created the 6/8 dance production, then played it for Scott. It was different from the Texan artist's more psychedelic material, and the producer wasn't sure if he would take it on. "I knew that he could do it, but I just didn't know whether he was going to be in the mood for that," Pharrell told Apple Music. "Because a lot of our music is led by mood, and he just dove right in. And we have been on a high ever since he recorded it that night. It's just something we just listened to over, and over, and over again. I wanted to hear him in another space. That's my job. My job is to push. I think that's my purpose."
  • Williams and Scott teased "Down In Atlanta" many times prior to its release, including when La Flame played it on September 17, 2022, on the first night of his Las Vegas Road to Utopia residency. They released it as a single on September 18, 2022.

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