Built on the foundation of a crackly vocal sample, Dave Zup's The Heart of It All provides the listener with two dense verses that exists in a very rich sonic landscape. Zup opens up about his struggle to find his place in music while being "the most likely to turn heads, unassuming, unread again," before Columbus emcee, Trek Manifest, joins in alluding to having "million dollar dreams on a bi-weekly budget." The song, also produced by Zup, arrives just in time for summer cookouts and warm-weather nights under starry skies. Listeners can also explore the music in a different way through the instrumental version.