Diplo

I never was like, this is a pop song.

It was just like, let's do something crazy.

Let's put some gunshots in the song.

So we came from different, came from the same place, but we went different ways.

And that always was like my calling card.

If you come, if you want Diplo to work on songs, you're not going to get a hit.

You're going to get the weird song in your album.

That's going to help to reinvent you.

So it's been like that.

Usher was like the first thing I did.

I was like, let me do something.

I had an idea.

Let's make, I was in a techno at the time.

I was into like deep German minimal techno.

So Climax is me trying to make a German, like I'm talking like Ame and like just weird.

I don't know, like even Brazilian techno, just into this like weird, deep melodic sound that didn't have anything but a kick and a hi-hat.

And I was like, let's make a record.

that's like that, but broke down.

And you know, when you go to like a rave, you kind of like a really deep like underground, like techno rave back in the day, like melodic techno, people are just like vibing, vibing.

And then like 10 minutes later, hi-hat comes in and people are like screaming for the hi-hat.