Diplo

When I was like living in Philadelphia, Scooter was in New York.

And then I had done some work with Khalees or something.

I forget the whole story.

Anyway, met Bieber with him and then Usher and Bieber had some kind of label situation connection.

So I was like working on Bieber's, like long time ago, I worked on his second album and then I met Usher and then, you know, Usher was going through kind of a rebrand and I had just done some, you know, interesting music in Philadelphia, like Santigold and MIA.

And I think Usher was just like, let's do something cool.

He brought me to Jungle Studios

That's Alicia Keys Studios in New York.

And we just sat there for two days and we made the record climax.

And I think he really wanted to do something unique for his voice and like weird.

And that was like my, when I first started in the industry here in LA,

I was always doing my own thing, like building my own projects.

It's funny because me and Benny Blanco have like the exact same history.

We came from the exact same place.

Like we both started like Philly.

He was Virginia, but Philly was like his big city.

He worked for Disco D. Yeah.

And I also was like friends with this because me and Ben were going to Brazil a lot.

He had a Brazilian girlfriend.

I was working on Brazilian music at the time.