“Step” is inspired by “Step to My Girl” by Souls of Mischief. Per the band: “Souls Of Mischief I’ve always loved. I kind of associate them with the first time that I really started become a music fan as a young teenager. This song apparently was recorded around the time of their first album, which was called "93 ‘til Infinity", but it never made the record and it floated around as a bootleg for awhile. I only discovered it five or six years ago but it always really stuck with me, especially the chorus.

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