South Florida native Kent Jones was taught how to play the drums by his auntie. He then honed his skills on the piano and the hammond organ as well as taking jazz and music theory classes. Jones signed to DJ Khaled's We The Best Music Group in 2014 and released his debut mixtape Tours the following year.
This melodic, self-produced track came together quickly. "'Don't Mind' was pretty much all freestyle," he told Genius. "I made the beat, came up with the hook, and the next day I freestyled the verses."
The song almost didn't make it onto Tours due to a complication with its mix. Miami producers Cool & Dre, whom Jones had worked with before sorted the problem. He recalled to Vibe: "I got the tracklisting from the guy who does my artwork and then Dre and Khaled sent me the tracklisting and the track wasn't on there. So I hit up Dre and asked him what was going on. It was that song and another song. The other song really didn't make it, but that one we had get something done sonically on there. So Cool mixed down the entire Tours record. So we had to go back in and fix it. Once we got it back to Dre, that's when it just made it."
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