It’s crazy because I got up, like, three, four in the morning. Sometimes I wake up out my sleep and feel like I need to write. I had a beat, shout to Amadeus, who produced the record. I was just listening to some beats. I got up through the night and just felt like I was just in the mood. I was motivated for some reason. Everything happened back-to-back. I literally wrote it, recorded it, put it out, shot the video. Like it was all in one. Not even a week—I did everything. I got a home studio in my crib. So I remember I woke up like four in the morning, I wrote to it, finished it like in probably like 30 minutes, 45 minutes to a hour. And later on, probably like an hour or two later, I went into the studio, recorded it. Then I sent it out to get mixed and I put a video, a snippet. I said I wasn’t gonna do that at first. I was gonna save it. But I was like, “You know what, M.A.? You always hiding your music, and people say it all the time, like, ‘When you gonna drop something?’”

I put out this snippet, and it went crazy. I said, “OK, see that.” But then they dragged it into something else.

That was one of the rumors, too. No, I wasn’t talking about Fetty Wap. Where I’m from, in New York, “PettyWap” is like, it’s not a diss to Fetty Wap, it’s just like a reincarnated word to be petty. I didn’t name it “PettyWap” at first. Like when it hit the internet and went viral and they made it seem like it was about something else, then I was like, “All right, bad, I'ma run with this, since y'all think it’s about that. And I'ma call it "PettyWap.” I’m gonna be funny.“ And I knew the name itself, the title itself, was gonna make people automatically be like, "Oh, what is she, she being petty, like what is she talking about?” So I named it that. I said this gonna catch people’s attention by naming it “PettyWap.” You know what I mean? So I did that, and it just went from there.