This is confrontation dressed as conversation.

HOW U LIVIN’? takes place in a real moment, running into someone you haven’t seen in a while, but the history is still sitting right there between both of you. Justice doesn’t ease into it. He leads with questions, but they’re not innocent. He already knows the answers, he’s just testing what she’ll admit.

There’s tension under everything he says. He notices the details, like the jeans, something small, but personal enough to instantly pull them back into shared memory. That’s how he gets in. Not by force, but by reminding her of what they were.

The dynamic is layered. On the surface, it’s playful, almost casual. But underneath, there’s possession, ego, and unfinished energy. He challenges how she’s living now, who she’s around, and why, but makes it clear he doesn’t accept the idea that she’s fully moved on. “Your mind forgot the love, your soul remembers me” is the core of it. He knows the connection never actually left.

And once the conversation starts, it shifts. What begins as checking in turns into pulling her back into his space mentally. By the time they’re talking, she’s already slipping, reminiscing, staying longer than she planned, engaging in something she knows she shouldn’t.

The cover reflects that same idea of identity and recognition. The close-up Polaroid focuses on a specific detail, the neck, the tattoo—something permanent, something that can’t be easily changed or hidden. It mirrors how Justice sees the situation. No matter how much time passes or what she does, there are parts of her he recognizes instantly, and uses to pull her back in.

This isn’t curiosity, it’s strategy.

Justice isn’t asking how she’s living to understand her, he’s asking to remind her who she was when she was with him.

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