I did it I didn’t have the whole song finished I just had this one part.

I go upstairs, and I just start throwing stuff together, I had to hurry up, and I was pissed. I go upstairs, got all the equipment up there I’m talking to the Engineers like “Listen, what time do I need to be on the cab to be on the flight out here?” *Laughs*. She is driving me nuts, I need it done.” Now I’m mad, you know what I’m saying? You just messed my whole flow up. You need to do that record before you leave.” And I’m like “Yo, I just came to sit and leave!” and he was like “Nah, I got a studio upstairs you gotta do it before you leave. “Which song did you play for her on the piano? Whatever it is, I don’t care. He was telling me that Faith told him about the song I played on the piano *Laughs*. I was just going to hang out and I’ve got my bags packed and I know what time the cab is coming, then I got this phone call from Puff. I passed by the studio, I had a flight to catch my flight was like at six and I stopped by the studio around two. Then we were like “Yo, this is crazy, she needs to do that.” She finished that, and that was the first song. Next thing I know, Faith was upstairs and Puff runs downstairs and was like “Yo, she just wrote the craziest hook in the world, like it’s backwards!” It was real slow and different it was funny the way she did it. So then she was like “I told you I wanted to do with you my whole album!” *Laughs* and I was like “All right, let’s figure it out.”

I was like “All right cool, you signed to somebody?” Next thing I know, Puff signs her. I was just playing some stuff in the piano, she just ran in the room like “Yo! That’s crazy! I want you to do my whole album” *Laughs*. I was into Jazz a lot back then and I wasn’t really into R&B at that time. In an interview we did with producer Chucky Thompson, he talked about how the song originally came together:Ĭhucky Thompson: One day I’m in there playing the piano and I’m playing some stuff that I made up when I was sixteen. So what did it take to make this timeless classic? The story of how it came together might surprise you. It’s one of my faves from my first album, and I love the energy the audience gives me every time I perform it live.” In fact, when she chose her top 10 favorite songs exclusively for us in an article years ago, she picked this song as number 1 and had this to say:įaith Evans: “I’ve heard many people say this song is a timeless love song. If you ask many of her fan base what their favorite song is from her career, many will point to this song.

“Soon as I Get Home” was released as the second single from Faith Evans’ debut album “Faith” in 1995.

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