Furthermore at the MTV VMAs it was nominated for Best Hip-Hop Video and Best Collaboration awards. It doesn’t stop here, as it was nominated for the Song of the Year and Collaboration of the Year awards at the American Music Awards.
WIZ KLIFA SEE YOU AGAIN SONG MOVIE
The song won Choice R&B/Hip-Hop Son, Choice Collaboration and Choice Song from a Movie or TV Show awards at the 2015 Teen Choice Awards. This worldwide hit topped the charts in 28 countries including the UK. We’re going to use you on the song.’ I was like, ‘What!? You’re going to use me!?” Release dateĭJ Frank E – Charlie Puth – Cameron Thomaz – Andrew Cedar Label I was like, ‘By the way, did you guys put my cut of the vocals in there on accident?’ And they’re like, ‘Oh, no. They were going to get someone else to sing it, and they had a lot of great people try it, but they showed the movie with me singing the hook. Later on, they wanted us to write a bridge which became (singing) ‘So let the light guide your way, hold every memory as you go,’ so I actually went to see a rough cut of the movie with the song and, oh, you know what I just realized? When I went to that rough cut I still didn’t know they were going to use my vocals on it. We were like, ‘How did we just do this so quickly? We sent it to them and they loved it, they got Wiz Khalifa on it, and the rest is history. When we wrote the song it was so powerful, just crazy human interaction. I wrote it with my co-writer, Justin (DJ Frank E), who I just met at the time. I thought, ‘Who am I?’ But I took a whack at writing it. My first day I wrote my other single “Marvin Gaye, my second day I heard a message from the Fast and Furious franchise that they wanted a song to honor Paul Walker’s legacy for a three minute scene at the end of the movie, the most significant part of the movie. Though, between you and me, in the back of my mind I also secretly wanted to be an artist, but I thought the best way to go about that was to write songs first. He talked to American Songwriter about writing this song, saying that: “I had come out here by myself just to go to LA and be a songwriter, because that’s what I originally intended to do. When talking to MTV News about the ‘Furious 7’ movie soundtrack and tribute to the actor Paul Walker, Wiz Khalifa explained: “To have the responsibility to do the Paul Walker record was really dope, I basically thought about what the movie stands for as far as family and the brotherhood, and of course, using the metaphor of the last ride and the last race because of that last scene.” Wiz Khalifa recorded his verses in Snoop Dogg’s home studio in L.A.Īs for Charlie Puth, he penned the song in July 2014 during his second day of writing in LA. Inspired by the death of actor Paul Walker.
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