Skylar Grey

And I had like, ever since I was like 13, when I first heard, uh, Stan by Eminem, I'd always been like, I love that combination of like a pretty, you know, female vocal with hip hop.

And so I'd always wanted to do something like that.

Um,

and so I said, I think I could write hooks for hip hop songs.

Like that was kind of like my, what I told her I wanted to do.

And, um, she was like, well, we just signed this producer named Alex kid.

And, uh, that's kind of like his wheelhouse.

So you guys should meet.

And, um, so I flew back to, to Oregon and, um, she connected us on email and,

And I would go down to the little cafe to get internet.

And so I would just – I emailed him and he emailed me back some beats that he had just made.

And –

I would just sit there with my headphones in the cafe and like hum little melodies into my computer and send them back.

But the first one I did was called Love the Way You Lie.

And a month after I sent Alex that hook, it was a number one song.

It was crazy going from like broke and living in the woods in this cabin and then writing a song that literally took over the world.

Yeah.

So that's kind of what took me out of Oregon.

Cause after that I started getting phone calls, you know, from everybody wanting songs from me.

Um,