was written by King and Monica Payne, and according to King, "We started to work on the track, writing lyrics. She sat on the floor and the first line, 'Sitting here in this empty room,' because the room was fairly empty because I had just moved into that house". The song was King's way of showing love to The Isley Brothers; it was also an ode to the gospel group The Clark Sisters. Originally, the song was meant to be a solo song but after Aaliyah heard an earlier demo with singer Tavarius Polk, she loved his voice and the producers decided to keep him on the song, which turned it into a duet. The song was recorded in one session, with Aaliyah recording the song with the lights turned completely off in the recording booth so people could not see her face. After recording songs with King and Herbert, Aaliyah then went to Atlanta to meet with Carl-So-Lowe and Dupri, with whom she ended up collaborating with for three to four days. In an interview, Lowe mentioned: "I believe Jomo, Barry Hankerson's son, reached out to So So Def and I think it happened from there. I knew she was coming to Atlanta, and we had nothing prepared at the time". Meanwhile, Aaliyah wanted to record songs that were "simplified" and "really good". Once Aaliyah signed with Atlantic, she and Kallman discussed that it was important to find innovative producers who were not widely known to produce the album, as the ultimate goal was to find Aaliyah her own new sound which would define her as an artist. Eventually, Kallman started meeting with multiple unknown songwriters and producers, stating: "I really just started meeting with tons and tons of new songwriters and producers, just looking for someone creative that had their own spin on things. And one day, this young kid came in. His name was Tim Mosley. He started playing me beats and it was a really obvious meeting of, 'This doesn't sound like anything that's out there and really had its own super exciting and electric, just dynamic properties." According to Kallman, "I called up Aaliyah, and I said, 'You need to meet this guy. His name's Timbaland, and he's new. He's out of the Devonte [Swing] camp.' I said 'I think this could be your muse to really create something special.' And they hit it off".