Charlie Puth

Because DJ Frankie had just put out Tonight I'm Loving You by Enrique Iglesias.

If you listened to the beginning of that, right?

Yes.

I was just... I studied everyone's discography before I went in a session with them.

That's smart.

That's prepared.

And I would be like, oh, that thing you did with... I can just do that.

It's like, let's... And I knew that...

No, it's just... There's a bit of auto-tune on there to cap because my vibrato is so messy.

But you line it out and it becomes even.

I knew that DJ Frankie really loved early Kanye West music.

And I was like, we should make it... I want to be delicate with how I say it because...

we wrote it ourselves, but we were, we, we, we put all of our love and influences.

Like you can hear them into, into the, in the song.

Oh, they didn't want me on the song.

They were trying so hard to find a different singer to be like, okay, we feel what we feel when we listen to the Charlie version.

We can't put this no-name artist on the song that's for Paul Walker and one of the biggest moments of the entire decade.

Everybody was trying to make it work.

Not even...

My label head at the time was sticking up for me.