Travie McCoy and Bruno Mars have successful music collectively, however the pair haven’t spoken in a while.
In 2010, McCoy tapped Mars for a function on the music “Billionaire,” McCoy’s debut solo music. But in a current dialog with PeopleMcCoy stated Mars “doesn’t return my calls.”
The Gym Class Heroes frontman reminisced on assembly Mars by means of his A&R rep. At the time, Mars was in a writing-producing trio referred to as The Smeezingtons—consisting of himself, Philip Lawrence, and Ari Levine—and so they have been followers of Gym Class Heroes.
“I can’t remember the first song they played me, but they played me a rough demo of ‘Billionaire,'” McCoy recalled. “And the original top line was part of it, ‘I want to be on the cover of Forbes Magazine standing next to Diddy and the queen.'”
McCoy claimed he needed to tweak the music.
“I’ve never been to [Diddy’s] White Party, but I was like, ‘Bruno, I don’t want to say Diddy’s name every night. He’s like, ‘All right, cool, easy fix.’ So he changes it to Oprah,” he said.
“And I’m so glad I made him change that shit, because … I probably wouldn’t have been subpoenaed, but my fans would have probably been asking questions. You know what I’m saying?”
McCoy added, “I don’t want to stand next to Diddy in anything.”
“Billionaire” peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the lead single from McCoy’s debut solo album, Lazarus. The track predated Mars’ own debut as a solo artist by just a few months. “Billionaire” arrived in March 2010, and Mars’ first single and breakout hit, “Just the Way You Are,” dropped that July.
Earlier this month, “Just the Way You Are” grew to become licensed 21-times Platinum, making it the highest-certified single of all time.