FKA Twigs‘ “Childlike Things” technically took the longest of all the songs on her album Eusexua to complete, with the finishing touch ending up being North West‘s serendipitous feature on the track.
In a video posted to Instagram Thursday (March 20), the British singer-songwriter told the story of how the firstborn daughter of Kim Kardashian and Ye (formerly Kanye West) ended up on the album, which dropped in January. On “Childlike Things,” the 11-year-old raps in both English and Japanese, spitting over Twigs’ electronic dance beat, “Hello, my name is North/ From California to Tokyo/ Jesus the King/ Praise God/ Jesus is the only true God.”
According to Twigs, it all started when she was in the studio sans North and found herself blurting out long-forgotten lyrics — “I’ve got supersonic powers that are polyphonic/ Like a chocolate teapot, melt ’em down and burn ’em up” — that the Gloucestershire native composed when she was a kid. They ended up becoming the foundation for a track that was decades in the making, but she quickly realized that she needed to bring in a collaborator who could match and enhance that “childlike energy” she was tapping into.
“It [needed] someone who has that tenacity, who has that strong point of view that you have when you’re 11,” Twigs told followers while doing her makeup for the day. “Then I saw an interview with North West, and she was so confident. It suddenly occurred to me that I would’ve loved to have a friend like North who could speak up for themselves.”
“I was like, ‘OK, it has to be North, she has to put her point of view on the song,’” she added. “She came and wrote about her faith, which I think is really powerful.”
“Childlike Things” ended up being one of 11 tracks on Eusexua, which debuted at No. 24 on the Billboard 200 — Twigs’ highest peak on the chart to date. North had previously worked with her dad on Vultures 1‘s “Talking” and Vultures 2‘s “Bomb.”
Most recently, the pre-teen appeared on Ye’s “Lonely Roads Still Go to Sunshine,” which also features a recording of a phone conversation between the rapper and Diddy, who is currently incarcerated while awaiting trial on federal charges of racketeering, sex trafficking and more. (Kardashian reportedly did not approve of the song and expressed in alleged text messages posted by Ye that she’d attempted to block the release by trying to trademark North’s name, per TMZ.)
In her video, Twigs ended by remarking how “Childlike Things” came together across decades, starting before North was even born. “The crazy thing is that I wrote the song when I was 12, 13; she wrote the song when she was 11,” the musician said. “This is a collaboration that has taken decades to come to fruition. North helped make this song come to life after so many years, and for that I’m so grateful.”
Watch Twigs tell the story of how North ended up on Eusexua below.
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