Real to Me, Callista Clark's debut EP, was released on February 12, 2021, with the impact date for "It's 'Cause I Am" to country radio set for March 29, 2021. "It's 'Cause I Am" was written on December 16, 2019 in Nashville by Clark, Cameron Jaymes and Laura Veltz at Jaymes' backyard studio "The Garden Shed". Clark told Taste of Country that the track was "about someone telling you that you can't do something", and that "it's always been a special song to me, and it's the one song that I thought people my age could really relate to". In an interview with Sounds Like Nashville, Clark said that she wrote the song after an encounter with a man in a Starbucks who saw her with a guitar and said "pfft, good luck", with Clark saying the song was addressed to "anybody who made me feel small or less than I was", and it was her way of "putting them back in their place a little and boosting my confidence".
