Bentley played a big role in the creation of the chorus with the idea behind the lyric "Waves don't die" coming from his brother's belief that "angels are going to come out of waves crashing against the surf". Bentley then recalled that he walked into the studio one day with "the beat to Waves" being played with "Ye sitting on one side of the studio" and "Chris on the other side". Īccording to co-writer Derek Watkins, better known as Fonzworth Bentley, Chris Brown's feature on the track came about after West asked "Who's the second most hated nigga in America? Chris Brown! I need to do a record with Chris Brown". Discussing the production of the song, Mohawke stated that "less is more" and that there are "probably only like six or seven elements in the whole song".
Mohawke confirmed that the beat for the song was set to be scrapped until a few weeks prior to release and had hinted in a tweet that he was "partially responsible" for the album's last minute name change from Swish to Waves likely as a result of his contributions to the song. It originally contained a sample of " Return to Innocence" (1994) by Enigma, until Scottish producer Hudson Mohawke took the sample out and added choir synths to the track, which ended up becoming "the majority of the song in terms of the instrumental", according to the producer. "Waves" was first conceived during the same week songs such as " All Day" (2015) and Travis Scott's " Piss on Your Grave" (2015) were recorded.
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