they said i was a ghost is a project grounded in Black hauntology, the idea that the past is not gone, but lives on through us. It grew out of my attempts to process personal loss and expanded into a broader listening for the ghosts that move through everyday life: ancestors, broken relationships, digital traces, and former versions of the self. Drawing on thinkers like Christina Sharpe, Avery Gordon, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Hanif Abdurraqib, the album treats haunting as both intimate and historical, a conversation between grief and creativity where personal and collective memories refuse to disappear and instead shape how we remember, survive, and imagine what comes next.