Based around the bassline from “Sweet Inspiration” by King Curtis and a vocal sample from Johnnie Taylor’s “Watermelon Man,” No I.D. lays the soundscape for Common to “say clever things and punchlines.” Common explained his inspiration for creating “Watermelon”: "For me, it was like, ‘You got Souls of Mischief out there, you got Nas out there, you got all these other MCs that’s bringing something.’ I just wanted to bring that cleverness, that Chicago-ness and that’s what ‘Watermelon’ was."

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