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Only a few months ago, Charlie Puth was a mostly unknown 23-twelvemonth-old singer from Rumson, North.J., waiting for his big break. Simply on this sunny afternoon in Manhattan, he'south fresh off rehearsing for his Sabbatum Night Live debut, unwinding in a two-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 blunt.

"I really wish I could fume, only I tin can't," says Puth. "My voice…"

"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 two months ago, rehearsing for their March 16 Tonight Show advent, have every right to celebrate: Khalifa's "Run across You Once more" (featuring Puth) is topping the Billboard Hot 100 for a fourth calendar week, abruptly ending the xiv-week streak of Marker Ronson and Bruno Mars' "Uptown Funk!" and selling one.7 million copies in the U.s., according to Nielsen Music. The vocal scores the concluding scene of Furious 7 — the blockbuster picture that has grossed $1.4 billion worldwide (according to Box Office 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, pianoforte skills honed at Berklee College of Music and teen-idol looks with i noticeable twist — a large scar on his right eyebrow, the effect of a babyhood dog bite. "We brought the power ballad back," says Puth of "See You Again." "It'due south a big, uplifting song anyone can connect to."

Every bit for Khalifa, 27, "Meet You Again" is his second surprise No. 1 later on 2011's "Black & Yellow," which many had assumed would be his commercial peak. "It was an opportunity to practise something I wouldn't normally practise on my own," says Khalifa. "It feels great to be part of a vocal that has a expert bulletin."

Started From the Lesser: Wiz Khalifa'south 'See You lot Again' & Other No. 1s That Debuted at No. 100

The inspiration backside that bulletin is tragedy. "See You Once 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 time, started up again after a 6-month hiatus, director James Wan and his team came upward with a new ending for the movie as tribute: Piecing together CGI, shots of body doubles and clips from old films, the closing scene features Walker exchanging final words with co-star Vin Diesel and driving off into the sunset. Simply i thing was missing: the right song to accompany it. Mike Knobloch, president of film, music and publishing at Universal Pictures, who had been involved with the franchise since 2011'due south Fast Five, says the sequence needed music that could capture "the human level" of the subject area and strike the right residual. "We wanted to recognize and gloat Paul. Nosotros couldn't have people leaving the theater sad."

Puth — who first bankrupt into the biz afterward his YouTube cover of Adele's "Someone Like You" landed him a deal with Ellen DeGeneres' now-defunct eleveneleven label in 2011 — institute out almost the Furious filmmakers' need through his publisher, Artist Publishing Group. The day after the vocaliser moved to Los Angeles in July 2014 to revamp his stalled career, Puth wrote, co-produced and sang what would become "See You Again" in a session at Warner Music's 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 offset words out of my mouth were, 'It's been a long 24-hour interval,' " recalls Puth, singing the chorus' opening bar. He looked at Franks, and they hugged each other. "What did we just make?" Puth recalls saying in shock.

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

Wiz Khalifa Tops Hot 100, T-Wayne Whips Into Top 10

Atlantic signee Khalifa, whose 2013 Fast & Furious 6 single "We Own Information technology" reached No. 16 on the Hot 100, was so enlisted, partly for his history with the franchise. Like Puth, Khalifa never met Walker, but he connected to the song and recorded verses in friend Snoop Dogg'due south 50.A. abode studio. "I loved Charlie'due south vocalisation and the bulletin," he says. "I've lost a lot of people, then I just channeled that energy." Adds Kevin Weaver, Atlantic's president of flick and television, "He cut these amazing verses well-nigh family unit and alliance and last rides – all these things that were so important to the picture show."

Wiz Khalifa Earns First No. 1 Anthology On Billboard 200

Though he's best-known for brash stoner-party anthems like 2014's "Nosotros Dem Boyz," Khalifa seems to be embracing this softer side — later all, he'due south a family unit human being at present. Since the birth of his son Sebastian in 2013, Khalifa has weathered a very public (and messy) divorce and custody boxing with wife Amber Rose. In March, TMZ reported that Khalifa sent Rose "Come across Y'all Again" — which features him rapping, "How could we not talk about family when family's all that we got?" — and that the vocal prompted Rose to tearfully reach out to him and concord to co-parent Sebastian. Khalifa has never confirmed that report, and declined to respond to Billboard'due south questions about Rose — who's at present reportedly dating rapper Machine Gun Kelly — just says his life is "totally dissimilar" at present. "I'm all about family," says Khalifa. "When information technology comes downwardly to it, that's all that you have. My chief focus is on my relationship with my son, my boogie-boo."

In between, Khalifa is also focused on a summer tour with Autumn Out Male child 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 ane on Atlantic.

"I'ma put Charlie on my album," says Khalifa. "I want to get him to sing most marijuana."

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

This story originally appeared in the May sixteen event of Billboard.

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