Rain - Commentary

Rain, featuring John Legend
This is a very, very special
Dear to our heart song
Dear to my heart

This song was uhm
Created by Karriem Riggins' father
His father, Emmanuel Riggins

Now, Karriem Riggins has produced the whole album alone
With Robert Glasper
His father, Emmanuel Riggins passed in May of 2015

Karriem and uhm
His father was a great musician
Well, you know and Karriem obviously
Inherited some of that
But his father left some music

And this song was written by Karriem's father
About Emmanuel Riggins
In some way in, in 1960's
And when Karriem played it for me I was like
Wow, this is
This is a beautiful song

It-it made me just
It took me away from
Everything I was thinking about, this is
Man, let me go somewhere else
And we all was like
Man, what if we got John and maybe, Karriem mention
What if we got John Legend to sing it
I think one of us mentioned it

And I sent it to John
And John was like
Man, I love this song
'Cause it was very new and different for
For any album that I've done
And anything different than John and I done
So I think John was pleasantly surprised
And when I said to him

Let's try to do another glory
Let's do, they say, you know
It was just like, no
This was the fresh song he loved
He said I loved the song
I was like, "Yes"

So he did it and I started writing my verse
And I was just talking about
Because the song is about
Following your dreams and going through
Uhm, going through with your dreams even if it rains
You're talking about getting to California

So I kinda was talking
In my verse about
Even if the rain comes down the rain is the cleanser thing
It's gonna cleanse you
I think we gonna deal with the rain

And uhm, you know so
The song definitely has the spirit on it's own
It's just
It makes me think of a movie or something like
Let it rain