Do It Right

The Take

Track eleven of *Love Sick*, 'Do It Right' is the album's devotional-commitment register, produced by Jahaan Sweet and Boi-1da. Boi-1da — the Toronto-born producer behind a generation of Drake records and Kendrick's 'Money Trees' — pulls the production toward a cleaner, bigger-room R&B palette than the album's interior tracks. Jahaan Sweet's presence as co-producer continues his *Life of a Don* lineage on Don's discography ('2AM,' 'Outerspace,' 'Geronimo' later on the *Love Sick* deluxe), and the pairing with Boi-1da gives the song production weight commensurate with the lyric stakes. The lyric paraphrase: the chorus loops the title as a self-directive — the narrator is naming the commitment work the relationship requires from him, with the album's love-as-illness frame finally being met with a love-as-discipline counter-frame. Inside the album sequence, 'Do It Right' sits between the Wizkid-featured 'Slow Motion' and the Charlie Wilson–featured 'If I Had,' and reads as the project's deliberate self-accountability checkpoint inside an album whose other songs more often locate the relationship's struggles outside the narrator's own conduct.