In an interview, Hunt explained how “Make You Miss Me,” which first appeared on his 2013 pre-fame acoustic mixtape Between The Pines, really kicked things off for him:

“Make You Miss Me” was the first thing I put up on the Internet. I realize the power of the Internet because I, as a listener, found lots of great music through YouTube and other outlets that you can access through the Internet, but I had never taken advantage of it as an artist and that was the first song that I put up and was able to sort of gauge a reaction from that. Nobody knew who I was. I never wanted to charge anybody through YouTube. I just wanted to share it with them and kind of get the thing going, get the music out there; that’s the most important part. You can tour, but if you don’t have any music available, nobody can find your songs anywhere. There’s really nothing to hold onto after they go to a concert.