~Junia-T and Only1KNG on the beat. Got Only1KNG on the background vocals!! Truss catching those harmonies too!! Those sick keys you hear are Only1KNG also. Mixing and mastering by Junia-T. ~

Ugh, get more personal he said…get more vulnerable he said…well. What most people don't know is that Junia-T (along with Lord Quest) has actually been my mentor also for the past few years. So with every session we had it was like, get deeper (no faiza). and I'm like ok. and so…be loved was born. I remember thinking like, is this even relatable. like everyone has been in a relationship and been loved before. surely by my age. I'm in my late 30's so this is kinda sad. but he's like naw Tea, a lot of ppl will relate. I'm not gonna lie, I have had a few tears shed by a couple fans after performing this song. (literally just twice lol) but it's a good sign, i think lol. But just like Sober Thoughts, this song is just stripped the fuck down. the first line of the song is literally “I'm just bein honest” lolol. so. ya. This was another song from 2021. I think that was the year I almost moved to Tkaronto. fun side story: I actually loaded up my SUV and drove all the way from YYC  to YYZ. dropped my stuff off at my aunties, flew back a while later and lived there for a few months. and the way stuff was moving so fast for me, and then Cadence Weapon won the polaris prize and i remember bein so proud of YEG but the media mentioned mostly that he's ontario based and i want to help put YYC on the map for real, I didn't want my press to say I'm anywhere except for YYC. (mohkinstsis/calgary) period. ok so anyway, i drove back to YYZ so i can pick up all my stuff and drove back to YYC. so i drove to from YYC to YYZ and back twice in one year lolol. I'm a BAMN (by any means necessary) kinda girl. okok so this sad ass song, be loved…yes. I was tempted to name it BELOVED or something so it can be both beloved and be loved, but it just didn't make sense. I've never been loved or been a beloved lolol. ya i got family and all that, thats all love but i mean from a relationship obviously. First relationship I was in, was about 3 years long, and it was teen love. turns out he was sleepin with everyone around lmao. so i was never really important to him and we realized we were actually always just supposed to be good friends lol. RIP.  next one, early 20's, i got married! but turns out he just wanted to get in to the country and I was a foolish young little girl. Still dealing with the reprecussions of that as I sit and type. literally smh right now lolol. 

Ohhhh what was so cool about this song too is that I met Desiree Dawson in my new fave city, Yellowknife! (Thanks for putting me on to her, Aliza!)I fell obsessed with her music and overall vibe hanging out all wknd was magical. that was summer 2023. fast forward to completing the album in jan. 2024, i asked Junez like hey there's this song I've been obsessed with for the past while and a line stands out that i think would be perfect. he of course asked if we have permission but i had messaged desiree  already and got her yes! Yaaaay, “whats it like to be in love, together”  ugh. that hit. it's from her song i had on repeat: “Different - Desiree Dawson + Mikey Jose”. Please go give it a listen if you haven't heard it yet. It's absolutely beautiful. Junez just sampled that one line and looped it under me doing a little spoken word thing at the end of the song. 

OMG also i almost forgot, this song stayed the same way because of Lazuli. This song was probably one of the first ones where Junez pushed me to write and record same night. back then i was used to taking it home, mulling it over, practicing until i had it memorized because I couldn't figure out how to record, I was just reading my lyrics so the execution just wasn't there, if that makes sense. And so this flow is EVERYWHERE. This is me stumbling through a bit and just wanting to finish the verse. I could've carved it like I do with all the other ones, you know, take out some words, add some words, give it a flow people can bop along to. but then I met Lazuli at an open mic in YYZ (tkaronto/toronto) and the way she delivered her poetry, was like a mix of rap and poetry and I immediately felt comfortable enough to perform my song after. and it turns out, that the way i performed mine affected her in some influential way as well! it was such a dope interaction that evening I can't forget. So this song is very poetry, floetry as i say in the beginning haha. thank you Lazuli. 

ok this is prob the longest liner notes of the songs so far hehe. This song means a lot. 

Track 7 is It's All Love because…I mean..pretty self explanatory. I love myself, so it's all love. also, bye.