Just a month ago 2 Chainz was one of many Hip Hop artists slamming Ariana Grande for the Trap-inspired music video for her latest Hot 100 #1 single, ‘7 Rings.’
Fast forward a few weeks, the 41-year-old says a ring to her manager led to the face-to-face meeting with the Pop princess that forever changed their relationship and led to not one, but two collaborations. The first was the ‘7 Rings’ remix and the second was ‘Rule the World,’ found on his latest effort ‘Rap or Go to the League.’
Sitting down with our friends at Genius, look inside to hear how the two squashed the beef and made beautiful music together:
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On not reacting like Soulja Boy to Grande copycat accusations (click here to read more):
“What kinda points do I get off snapping on Ariana Grande or dissing her, I don’t get anything off that,” he said. “I can just see people saying that I’m being petty, and I can’t be that.”
On meeting Grande:
“In this particular case, I’ve known her manager for a very fucking long time,” 2 Chainz explained. “So they set it up so we could actually meet and talk face to face… I think that kind of changed everything because I started getting what was going on, having a clear understanding of what was going on. She was more or less saying that, ‘Well, yeah, I thought people knew I took it from you.’”
On creating their duet, “Rule the World”:
“What we did was organic because I didn’t come with that plan originally,” 2 Chainz said. “I just had a dope song, she heard it, we went from there and vice versa with the ‘7 rings’ joint.”
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Hear what else he said in the video above.