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Simply a few months ago, Charlie Puth was a more often than not unknown 23-year-old singer from Rumson, N.J., waiting for his big suspension. Merely on this sunny afternoon in Manhattan, he's fresh off rehearsing for his Sabbatum Night Live debut, unwinding in a two-floor penthouse suite at the ritzy Gansevoort Park Artery hotel, and turning downward weed from none other than Wiz Khalifa.

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

"I really wish I could smoke, but I tin't," says Puth. "My voice…"

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

Wiz Khalifa & Charlie Puth: The Billboard Shoot

The unlikely pair, who simply met two months ago, rehearsing for their March 16 Tonight Show appearance, have every right to celebrate: Khalifa's "See You Once more" (featuring Puth) is topping the Billboard Hot 100 for a fourth week, abruptly ending the 14-week streak of Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' "Uptown Funk!" and selling i.seven million copies in the United States, co-ordinate to Nielsen Music. The song scores the last scene of Furious 7 — the blockbuster film that has grossed $1.iv billion worldwide (according to Box Office Mojo) since its March premiere — and launched its soundtrack, released March 17 past Atlantic, to No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Information technology 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 result of a childhood dog bite. "We brought the power ballad back," says Puth of "See Yous Over again." "It's a big, uplifting song anyone tin connect to."

As for Khalifa, 27, "See Y'all Again" is his second surprise No. one after 2011'southward "Black & Yellow," which many had assumed would be his commercial peak. "Information technology was an opportunity to do something I wouldn't unremarkably do on my own," says Khalifa. "It feels great to exist part of a song that has a good message."

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The inspiration behind that message is tragedy. "Encounter You Again" is a tribute to Fast & Furious franchise star Paul Walker, who died in a automobile accident in 2013. When production on Furious 7, which was being filmed at the time, started upwards again after a six-month hiatus, director James Wan and his squad came upward with a new ending for the film 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. Only one thing was missing: the right song to back-trail it. Mike Knobloch, president of film, music and publishing at Universal Pictures, who had been involved with the franchise since 2011'southward Fast Five, says the sequence needed music that could capture "the man level" of the subject field and strike the right remainder. "Nosotros wanted to recognize and gloat Paul. We couldn't have people leaving the theater distressing."

Puth — who first broke into the biz after his YouTube embrace of Adele'south "Someone Like Yous" landed him a bargain with Ellen DeGeneres' now-defunct eleveneleven label in 2011 — found out near the Furious filmmakers' need through his publisher, Artist Publishing Group. The 24-hour interval after the vocalizer moved to Los Angeles in July 2014 to revamp his stalled career, Puth wrote, co-produced and sang what would become "See You Once again" in a session at Warner Music's Burbank studios with co-producer Justin "DJ Frank E" Franks. Though Puth had never met Walker, he says he "felt an energy" in the room and started choking upward 10 minutes into the session. "I had experienced a loss very similar to Paul, where a friend passed away in a motorcar accident. The showtime words out of my mouth were, 'It'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 brand?" Puth recalls saying in shock.

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

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Atlantic signee Khalifa, whose 2013 Fast & Furious 6 single "Nosotros Own It" reached No. 16 on the Hot 100, was then enlisted, partly for his history with the franchise. Like Puth, Khalifa never met Walker, merely he continued to the song and recorded verses in friend Snoop Dogg's L.A. home studio. "I loved Charlie'south voice and the message," he says. "I've lost a lot of people, so I merely channeled that energy." Adds Kevin Weaver, Atlantic's president of motion-picture show and television receiver, "He cutting these astonishing verses about family and brotherhood and last rides – all these things that were so important to the moving-picture show."

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Though he'south best-known for brash stoner-political party anthems like 2014's "We Dem Boyz," Khalifa seems to exist embracing this softer side — after all, he'southward a family man now. Since the nativity of his son Sebastian in 2013, Khalifa has weathered a very public (and messy) divorce and custody battle with married woman Bister Rose. In March, TMZ reported that Khalifa sent Rose "See You Once again" — which features him rapping, "How could nosotros non talk about family unit when family's all that we got?" — and that the song prompted Rose to tearfully achieve out to him and concur to co-parent Sebastian. Khalifa has never confirmed that report, and declined to respond to Billboard's questions about Rose — who'south now reportedly dating rapper Auto Gun Kelly — but says his life is "totally dissimilar" now. "I'1000 all near family," says Khalifa. "When information technology comes downwardly to it, that's all that y'all accept. My principal focus is on my human relationship with my son, my boogie-boo."

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

"I'ma put Charlie on my album," says Khalifa. "I want to go him to sing well-nigh marijuana."

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

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

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