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Just a few months agone, Charlie Puth was a mostly unknown 23-year-erstwhile singer from Rumson, N.J., waiting for his large break. But on this sunny afternoon in Manhattan, he'south fresh off rehearsing for his Saturday Dark Alive debut, unwinding in a 2-floor penthouse suite at the ritzy Gansevoort Park Avenue hotel, and turning down weed from none other than Wiz Khalifa.

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"Want some?" asks the rapper, proffering an expertly rolled edgeless.

"I really wish I could smoke, but I can't," says Puth. "My vocalisation…"

"Just stand in the room with me and it'll happen at some point," replies Khalifa. (Puth eventually partakes.)

Wiz Khalifa & Charlie Puth: The Billboard Shoot

The unlikely pair, who only met 2 months ago, rehearsing for their March 16 This night Show advent, take every right to celebrate: Khalifa'southward "See You Over again" (featuring Puth) is topping the Billboard Hot 100 for a fourth calendar week, abruptly ending the fourteen-week streak of Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' "Uptown Funk!" and selling 1.7 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen Music. The song scores the concluding scene of Furious vii — the blockbuster film that has grossed $1.4 billion worldwide (according to Box Function Mojo) since its March premiere — and launched its soundtrack, released March 17 by Atlantic, to No. 1 on the Billboard 200. It also has made an overnight star of Puth, who boasts a Sam Smith-like vocal range, piano skills honed at Berklee College of Music and teen-idol looks with one noticeable twist — a large scar on his right eyebrow, the upshot of a childhood dog bite. "We brought the power carol dorsum," says Puth of "See You Once again." "It's a big, uplifting song anyone can connect to."

As for Khalifa, 27, "See You Once more" is his 2d surprise No. 1 later 2011'southward "Black & Yellow," which many had assumed would be his commercial top. "Information technology was an opportunity to do something I wouldn't normally exercise on my own," says Khalifa. "It feels slap-up to be function of a vocal that has a good bulletin."

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The inspiration backside that bulletin is tragedy. "See You Again" is a tribute to Fast & Furious franchise star Paul Walker, who died in a car accident in 2013. When production on Furious vii, which was being filmed at the fourth dimension, started up again after a six-month hiatus, director James Wan and his team came upwardly with a new catastrophe for the moving picture as tribute: Piecing together CGI, shots of body doubles and clips from old films, the endmost scene features Walker exchanging concluding words with co-star Vin Diesel and driving off into the sunset. But one affair was missing: the correct song to accompany information technology. Mike Knobloch, president of motion-picture show, music and publishing at Universal Pictures, who had been involved with the franchise since 2011's Fast Five, says the sequence needed music that could capture "the homo level" of the subject field and strike the right residuum. "We wanted to recognize and celebrate Paul. Nosotros couldn't have people leaving the theater deplorable."

Puth — who start broke into the biz subsequently his YouTube cover of Adele'south "Someone Like You" landed him a deal with Ellen DeGeneres' now-defunct eleveneleven label in 2011 — found out virtually the Furious filmmakers' need through his publisher, Artist Publishing Group. The day after the singer moved to Los Angeles in July 2022 to revamp his stalled career, Puth wrote, co-produced and sang what would get "See You Again" in a session at Warner Music'southward Burbank studios with co-producer Justin "DJ Frank East" Franks. Though Puth had never met Walker, he says he "felt an energy" in the room and started choking up 10 minutes into the session. "I had experienced a loss very similar to Paul, where a friend passed away in a car accident. The first words out of my oral fissure were, 'Information technology'south been a long day,' " recalls Puth, singing the chorus' opening bar. He looked at Franks, and they hugged each other. "What did we just make?" Puth recalls proverb in shock.

Mike Caren, Warner Music Group's worldwide head of A&R, commissioned more than 100 writers and producers to pen music for the soundtrack, but says the project but felt complete when he heard Puth'southward chorus. "We were looking for melody, lyrics, beats and musicality, and 'See Y'all Once more' had all those things in spades," says Caren, who signed Puth to APG shortly thereafter.

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Atlantic signee Khalifa, whose 2013 Fast & Furious half-dozen single "We Ain Information technology" reached No. 16 on the Hot 100, was then enlisted, partly for his history with the franchise. Like Puth, Khalifa never met Walker, just he connected to the vocal and recorded verses in friend Snoop Dogg's L.A. home studio. "I loved Charlie's vocalization and the bulletin," he says. "I've lost a lot of people, so I simply channeled that energy." Adds Kevin Weaver, Atlantic'southward president of film and television, "He cutting these astonishing verses most family and brotherhood and last rides – all these things that were and then important to the movie."

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Though he's best-known for brash stoner-party anthems like 2014's "We Dem Boyz," Khalifa seems to exist embracing this softer side — later on all, he's a family human now. Since the nativity of his son Sebastian in 2013, Khalifa has weathered a very public (and messy) divorce and custody boxing with married woman Amber Rose. In March, TMZ reported that Khalifa sent Rose "Run into Y'all Again" — which features him rapping, "How could we not talk about family when family's all that nosotros got?" — and that the song prompted Rose to tearfully reach out to him and hold to co-parent Sebastian. Khalifa has never confirmed that written report, and declined to respond to Billboard's questions nigh Rose — who's now reportedly dating rapper Machine Gun Kelly — simply says his life is "totally dissimilar" now. "I'thousand all virtually family," says Khalifa. "When it comes downwardly to it, that'southward all that y'all have. My main focus is on my relationship with my son, my boogie-boo."

In between, Khalifa is as well focused on a summer tour with Autumn Out Boy and a new album, which he vows will feature a new collaboration with his new labelmate: Puth, who released his debut EP, Some Kind of Beloved, May 1 on Atlantic.

"I'ma put Charlie on my anthology," says Khalifa. "I desire to get him to sing about marijuana."

"I'll sing information technology in a sweet falsetto though," replies Puth. "It sounds like your next single to me!"

This story originally appeared in the May 16 consequence of Billboard.

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