“H.E.R. is one of my favorites,” instrumentalist/producer Terrace Martin tells Apple Music. “I’m consistently inspired by her, my children are inspired by her, and we all listen to her often around the crib.” For Apple Music's Juneteenth-inspired Freedom Songs, a collection of covers and originals, Martin and celebrated harpist Brandee Younger chose to cover the singer’s “Damage,” a song Martin says reminds him of his “relationship as a Black man with the American system.” For Younger’s part, the instrumentalist says the project allowed her to celebrate one of her favorite contemporary musicians by collaborating with another. “H.E.R. is one of the most prolific artists of our time,” Younger says. “So to be able to team up with Terrace Martin—with whom I've wanted to work for many, many years—and approach 'Damage' without any kind of genre in mind, or being boxed into any style, was very liberating.”