Fridayy chatted with Billboard’s Carl Lamarre on the red carpet of the 2024 BET Awards.
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00:00Billboard, we are here with Friday, in case you didn't know, new single, Baddest in the Room.
00:08Tell me about it, brother.
00:09You know, it's going crazy right now. I just wanted to get something to feel good for the
00:13summer for the ladies one time, you know, and show people I got different lanes with my sound,
00:18you know what I'm saying? That's why I dropped that record.
00:21Is that going to be pretty much the sound for the next album? Are you going to go completely
00:25that way? Are you going to try to keep us on our toes?
00:28I'm keeping everybody on their toes, and everybody that knows my sound,
00:31I feel like my fans that listen to my albums, they know I'm capable of making them club records,
00:37you know what I'm saying? Them feel-good afro beats. So I just gave them that first,
00:41just for like, I know when people hear When It Comes to You, they're like,
00:44all right, he a slow, he a slow, you know what I'm saying? Slow R&B guy. So we gave that record
00:49just to show them people that found us from When It Comes to You that we could do anything.
00:53I love that. I mean, listen, the resume is getting pretty thick, my brother.
00:56DJ Khaled, Jay-Z, Rick Ross, now you've got Will Smith. How was it hooking up with Mr. Willie?
01:03It's a blessing, bro. That's a Philly legend, bro, you know what I'm saying? I grew up watching
01:06him my whole life, you know? I recorded that hook in 2020, and I sent that to Ayo,
01:11and then I think Ayo started working with Will this year and just played him that hook,
01:15you know what I'm saying? And he just jumped on the verses. So that was a blessing, bro.
01:18Have you been able to talk to Will one-on-one?
01:21I talked to him a few times in the DMs, but this is like the first time meeting, bro.
01:25You ready?
01:26Yeah, I'm ready, man.
01:28I know you got to send that pick to your mom. I know she's going to be hyped.
01:30She's going to be hyped as hell. You know, Will is a legend, you know what I'm saying?
01:33It's a few people I can show moms to, and Will is one of them.
01:36Oh, they're going to know. Before I let you go, man, of course, man of the hour tonight,
01:41Mr. Usher Raymond. If you could pick your favorite Usher song, what would it be?
01:46I'm going to say You Remind Me. Yeah, I was just listening to that yesterday because it's
01:51charting still on R&B, Apple music, so I was just playing that yesterday probably, yeah.
01:56That's a good record. That's a good record.