Diplo

DJ Snake was coming up at the time.

I was like, bro, you got this sound right now that I fuck with like hard.

So I was like, can you take this song?

It was already like in the format.

I liked his Luna George record a lot.

Sent it to him.

a couple weeks later he sent me like a demo we I was like oh give me all the parts arranged it went back with Mo wrote again that wasn't right sent it back to Snake give me another sample get back to me arrange it more brought Mo to Vegas can you guys like write this one more time I don't know we just I was like it was just something not right and in Vegas we kind of nailed it we were like in like a little basement studio at the Wynn and that was like a two-year period of like from the demo to like what we have and then

put it my manager was had it was like let's put on that on this album and then it became our first single when we made that was like yo let's make a video for this we'll have it in the bucket like we'll already have it ready if we put this out we just sat on this video i just had this really crazy video just scenes of me riding horses and like we're on a train we're on a bus we're like in india doing crazy shit we're dancing we learn choreography all happened in like 24 hours and then uh we sat on that video and then when the song came out we're like oh we have a video already so we put that out and then it just grew from there

I think at the time, the sound, I was like, okay, Major Lazer had become something live.

I needed records to work in a club, in a format people could move to.

So I just was like, it was just...

Like I predicted that DJ Snake sound.

He had just done Turn Down For What.

I was like, that sound is going to be the next sound.

So let's make a song with that sound.

So we kind of tailored it to like what that was.

And it was that like that sound was really big.

It was like during the whole Chris Brown had those mustard records.

Everything was already that tempo, 100 BPM, 808s.

Dance hall, reggaeton was getting big.