As soon as the calendars officially flipped to the month of December, artists began to share their holiday songs and albums, and R&B favorite Giveon is the latest to join the list. Today, the Long Beach native officially shared his rendition of a the Christmas classic, “O Christmas Tree.”

The twenty-five year old singing sensation is planning to end his 2020 strong. His debut EP Take Time was met with critical acclaim, most recently grabbing a Grammy nomination for Best R&B Album and also a song placement on Season 4 of HBO’s Insecure with his track “World We Created.”

Giveon landed in the spotlight thanks to his vocals on Drake’s “Chicago Freestyle,” coupled with the release of his own well-loved single “Like I Want You.” The video went on to garner 17 million views on YouTube alone, and the single has reached over 105M US streams to date across streaming platforms, peaking at #16 on the Billboard Emerging Artist chart and #25 on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart.

In a recent sit-down with VICE, Giveon delved a bit about where he draws his songwriting inspiration from:

It starts with just a normal dialogue between friends. I don’t tell them that I’m looking for inspiration or anything like that. We just talk and I’ll take a mental note, then go home and make the song. I don’t even tell them it’s about them or their situation. They’ll just hear it and be like, This sounds real familiar. I’ll be like, I don’t know what you’re talking about. I don’t even let them claim that it’s their story. The hardest part is writing a song as a story. A song is so short and there are only so many words that every line has to hit. The words have to flow.

Press play on Giveon’s new “O Christmas Tree” rendition down below.