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Producer Diplo (who makes out half of Major Lazer) has recently spoken out in an interview with GQ Style about how Rihanna refuses to work with him. Diplo said, “I just want her on a Major Lazer song. She’s like the one artist that we can’t ever get.”
Diplo opened up to the magazine about his attempts to get the singer to collaborate with him, but Rihanna just kept giving excuses each time the producer plays him a song.
“I played her ‘Lean On’. She was like, ‘I don’t do house music’. I face-palmed so hard on that one,” he said.
“Another time I had a session with her, and Future was also invited. The Weeknd was there. Metro Boomin was there before anybody knew who he was. I was so contact high.
“Future played her, like, 700 songs. It was four in the morning. Finally, I was like, ‘Yo, G, I’m leaving unless you let me play her a song’.
“So I played her a song. And she was like, “This sounds like a reggae song at an airport”. [laughs] I was like, I’m gonna go kill myself.”
Diplo has previously admitted that ‘Lean On’ was originally offered to both Nicki Minaj and Rihanna, but given to MØ when both singers turned it down.
Following the song’s success, Diplo called their decision “a blessing in disguise.”