As Filipino music continues to find a growing audience beyond the Philippines, artists Maki and James Reid are joining their voices in the growing OPM genre with their first collaboration, "luck." While it was their first time working on music together, James was someone Maki had looked up to for years, and Maki was someone James made note of. Maki - luck (feat. I told him I have songs that are in English now, so I made him listen to it, and he liked it, especially ‘luck,’" Maki explains. While the collaboration marked their first time releasing music together, both artists recognized something in each other's approach to music.