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Potti Knicks don't we make it official by introducing you properly with a round of applause thank you it's really nice to meet you at last we'll be alive around the world streaming on Apple music through beats you know how we feel
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man every record you put out I appreciate that thank you do you like it out here in Los Angeles you obviously spend a bit of time out here as well I love it I love the access to everything and you live out here officially I mean
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if you split your time well how do you oh yeah I've lived out here since 17 mm-hmm and I spent some time in Miami oh yeah a buddy efficiency like super yeah and is it good for work is it good for promise yeah yeah this is where the
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money's at I learned that when I you know when I spent some time I am a lot of distractions in Miami but here's a career as I can stick to I can you stay focused you know and get things done yeah how do you approach writing with
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you know for yourself for other people because I know that there are great examples of people who approach it like with a discipline how do you do it do you go as and when you feel it or do you try and get something down every single
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day I work every day like just period like I'm it sounds so corny like I have a toward after get on a plane and start to her tomorrow and it's like yesterday's in the studio like I do stuff like that gets everybody upset
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when you say you're supposed to be on vocal rest like I'm in the studio all the time so there's a lot of stuff that goes on in my life so have so much content and that's the only way like I really like want to get it out via music how do you take care of your voice how do you and is it something that you actually are aware of now both yeah I drop smoking like and if I do it's literally I treat my vocals as an instrument hmm so I'll take a shot of
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vodka if I want to be raspy is the technique yeah um for the type of song it is and who I wanted to reach to mm-hmm because that's no use how do you achieve the pure tone the pure tone is I tell whoever's in the studio get me
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boiling hot water or super boiling that you're like afraid to give it to me and I literally put it exactly on the back of my tongue to shock my body and shock the back of my teeth never heard that and then and like Queens I want to talk about the the
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difference between making music for yourself yeah right it's P and D and in being in a collaborative space is there a difference is there a different compartmentalization of your brain when you go into say work with Rihanna or work with somebody else on another record and you're not so consumed by your own vision you're in a shared environment what does that experience like for you specifically for you I literally have to literally have to
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interview artists you know like same way like I asked the most awkwardest questions I want to see a reaction I don't want to see how you your actual personality what I mean has anyone ever reacted badly to that and you've had to
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win oh no they actually like respect that because I like I I do take it to that extra level and ask you like so you know wild questions and privacy obviously I mean yeah yeah yeah no but but yeah and then they usually people
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know how I work they just let me go and I just like deliver them like the song like done and it's kind of just like how it is you mean and it's like we could change words when like in the middle of cutting it like while you're
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in the middle of cutting it besides that like there's never no like everybody's in the room no writing by committee no created by committee no that's that point oh my it's really tough to man oh that sounds cool oh tower sounds cool and it comes back
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in this completely changed shape and then have you ever had a situation where you've taken your name off a record tell the truth we you've had to take your name off a record because by committee it's come back and it's not something
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that you actually stand by yes or no and I won't ask you what it was yes or no yeah I want to talk about the song work because this is one of those real high points in a career that's full of them you know if I'm talking about Rihanna as
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well as yourself but for Rihanna to come back with a song that stands alongside the biggest records at that moment in time is a real achievement that's that's that's maintaining the wave and rising above it so how was that experience how
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deep did you get with her in order to get what you need to get into that record tell us about your work on on work work the beat originally wasn't even a reggae beat like it was just it had no drums it was just that it was
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super late at night everyone knows like how I work like I'm an owl what time you got that's what I'm most vulnerable what you stop oh I don't get to the house till 11:00 everyone gets it I was like at 2:00 and like eight to be traffic
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right I don't get to the house till 11:00 so it's empty yeah you know what I mean like she's there though she's are up all night and yeah it was just one of those nights where I was it was definitely a story about myself
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and the current situation I was in but I knew it was sort like it was it literally just flowed out like it was like another freestyle it was just like honesty and she felt it as well you were both like each other like we
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got one here's how here's what it is it's like I called I called an Omar grant and this is not throne Omar grant shout to Omar Rihanna and her mom had to fight for that song squeeze me yeah yeah everyone was just like what like what is it like because
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don't forget it was wasn't it um yeah but I have my mm-hmm and it was complete opposite of where everyone was it was going to be jolly kind of your house where I was gonna yeah so when sex with me came first and she was just putting
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that around the house saying like okay like I need something that's not gonna shock me you know what I mean that's like that came first but I wasn't satisfied with that like I wanted this I wanted this single you know there was a
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lot going on in the house there's a lot of like you know hide people a lot of push-ups I mean like we're doing our push-ups you know so I can imagine the most competitive environment Eva oh yeah I can imagine like everybody with the
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name is in there and it's just Game of Thrones oh yeah oh yeah so since sex with me was playing that she was banging that in the house I guess she just let me have my own room at that point mm-hmm I just said that party to his thing you know
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what I mean hmm because all I did was inspire me to be like you know like got something out yeah and yeah just one night that's just that's the second language to me like first language to me like I was like those are like lullabies to us like reggae music so it's like we're raised on this so much heritage for yeah that's bring like I hear a lot of language they use in your songs I don't hear elsewhere and I wonder whether that's a real focus
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thing for you and your craft like I'm not gonna say what everyone else is saying I'm gonna really try and push it forward every with every syllable in every detail you literally just like repeat everything I say in the studio
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you just said everything I say in every session great so connection I don't know to say our to that besides yeah yeah you know you've been busy man and I know that people are just like hurry up with now now and I'm like I just need to know
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them now now now now is well I'm gonna ask you in a minute but first I want to talk about another collaboration which I love which is your work on you work with Rihanna again on this which is wild thoughts smasher absolute worldwide
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global number one smash hit record and it's not like Khalid wasn't stacking them up already but this one was another level for him all together now this is a real community record in terms of artists appearing on it tell us about
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your work on this record I want a story about this party we're a storytelling mode now we've gotten positive with introductions to any of the stories I want the P and D special the penis is very raw so how'd it happen now supposed
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to go on vacation right before tour mmm summer's over so that's here and Khalid hit me with the Khaled vibrato I would say the sounds like three days ago right and how's it going to go yo-yo party I need that like that smash party that
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like changed the world I know this is the one that you just missed that like one other phrase buddy no it's a destiny emotion like whole thing yeah whole shebang he's the Tony Robbins of music man I love everything that God puts in here and I heard the beat and there's supposed to be a vacation tour starts you know me and I we booked a studio at the circle house and knocked it out what does that mean knocked it out like I mean we're in an
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hour or like I I hate for it to sound like that but if you like if you like just like how you have a real job I mean it's like as a professional it's like I don't super young but it's like I've been you know I mean I've been
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riding and this is your teenager yeah so it's I put myself in a lot of positions to have a lot of content you know what I mean right so you have that kind of like subliminal folder in your mind of ideas and inspiration mogul or something it
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can present you with 10 options in your mind and you can just start to pick and push yeah yeah so it was always really just you want a bang if that's what you want a banger so do you want like you know like a banger is different than
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like you know like a love story alright a banger okay boom let's do it let's not get out through the wordplay let's do the like you know you see the stuff that like mmm you know the double triple entendre the multi bars do it
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let's have fun let's do it and wow wow wow yeah wow everything attention elated like poking Rihanna in the back being like baby baby baby like this is a New York song so you gotta say it like Joey got show respect you don't I mean like
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you can't sing a sweet like you guys everything's intentional but we knocked a like that like because it was fun like supposed to be fun you wanted a fun banger sent to the right bathroom the next like right then did he face - I bet
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you he FaceTime video at after he saw it after you hit it he's just like it was just you know he it was Carolyn yeah the cow two cows thing he's and yeah that's how that turned out well that part of it yeah I want to know in that moment when
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you're writing mmm when you're riffing or you're putting words out there or you're getting your melodies right and getting your words right your phrasing and everything else mmm yeah and I'm just like I'm into your
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craft so I'm just going to go deep here I want to know what does the moment feel like to you when you know you've got something melodically and phrasing that's a banger it feels good you know that's a great line and that was funny
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he said that just that phrase yeah I want to know like what you're feeling at that moment in time are you just like racing together so good what people haven't said like I want because I don't want to go out and say had no Rihanna
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why just know like her moves Rihanna yeah which is what again like it was just similar to me like like ruckus in a sense of like the truth the raw truth and like and a little bit of wit like spinning and it's wet just like it came
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from a tag it's like to you it's like a mumble until you actually sit down and realize I'm talking about you know I mean like it's very raunchy but without to sway like you know it's like borderline and she's only person that
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really like could get away with it and have fun you know what I mean like got a doubt right be so fun to write with because she has the voice that can pull off all of the things you just said yeah and would and actually would sing it you
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know what I mean okay it's time you've been out there teasing music I'd imagine because we've had song titles that seem to be coming step by step by step by step so while I've got you here and don't get me wrong man I mean I've gone for ramen but the
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fact that you here on beats right now and Apple music I'm assuming it's more than social and we've got other things to talk about so can we can we get some facts for the fans of what's going on and what you've been alluding to and what you have coming yeah imagine I'm about to drop a project zombies way and clearly it's going to drop after this last picture so yes there's one more song after the seventh song so seven songs yeah that was made
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in seven days and then what's the name of the project seven day make sense so one song a day over the course of seven days that's like had a bad July why really up to you uh women got it you know yeah good yeah head of tank not a
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ting like a been Denis excluded it mm-hmm I'm 24 like yes like you know I continue to put myself situation innocent that's what the content continued to come from so you had to go get it out of your system in this Judea only way anyway
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yeah yeah a lot of stuff a lot of the songs like literally happening like right after like maybe she walked out the house and like how I deal with things is okay walk right upstairs to the studio and taking one cut and then
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call my homeboys and they're like really you just did that all look like you just but she just left oh yeah so seven seven days is the project it's the break-up out it's a breakup project no it's not a breakup project it's not fine yeah it's not a
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brick apart so love's not what it is it's a project of songs of means in seven days of real songs of real things that happen as made them I just wrote them and like sang them seven days seven days oh yeah that's some your we're gonna move that as a single I think we can play that hang on this is damage we gonna play damage as the featuring Halsey yeah one take G she's a monster she is a moss she's a monster Dumars on my top five albums of this
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year shadowy house he's so talented and her voice is so strong and I love her like it's so addicting when she comes in man she just stops you what years stops you from we're doing what you're doing is she commands your attention when she
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sings and just like it's her voice is just so like I don't know it's just I just love her voice she could say anything it's just sounds amazing she's probably the only artist I've made a song with in the studio together like
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successfully Wow like in a sense of we were both in the studio and he made a song and was finished like I went in cut my verse cut the hook she came in Reverse shot to prep we did the rest of the I mean they're like the stuff that did the
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magic yeah I was like the only artist I've ever worked with like literally like one mic we did it in like in studio successfully I love it Patti next door featuring holds the shaft Ozzy yeah absolutely she knows how we feel Bates man