Fridayy Talks "Baddest In The Room," Collaborating With Will Smith On "YOU CAN MAKE IT" & More

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.