Kid LAROI has finally put an end to the long-standing debate Stay writing credits to rest.
The Australian pop star has addressed the confusion that Charlie Puth wrote the lyrics to her smash 2021 duet with Justin Bieber.
During The path to before forgetting Taking to Twitch on Tuesday (December 23), the 22-year-old debunked misconceptions, revealing that it was himself and Bieber, 31, who wrote their own verses.
“I wrote all the lyrics to this song except for Justin’s verse,” said the Too Much rapper who set the record straight once and for all. “Justin wrote all the lyrics to his verse. There were some misinterpretations somewhere along the way in which the song was presented to us.”
“People think Charlie [Puth] wrote the song and gave it to us. This did not happen. I wrote all the lyrics in this punch-in style,” he said.
For the uninitiated, in a 2022 SiriusXM interview, Puth, who co-produced Stayexplained how he constructed the chords for the single.
However, some netizens took his statement as if the We will see each other again The singer’s explanation means he wrote the entire song without input from LAROI, whose real name is Charlton Kenneth Jeffrey Howard or the baby success maker.
“I was really disappointed when I started to see people saying that I hadn’t written [Stay] because I was so proud of it,” the Australian musician expressed his frustration live at not getting credit for something he’s really proud of. “I was 17. And I’m still so proud of it. This is an accomplishment and something we can be proud of. … Like, ‘Damn, people think this song was just given to me?’ It’s so crazy.”
He acknowledged the contributions of others, emphasizing that it was a collaborative effort.
At the same time, LAROI made it clear that he personally wrote all the lyrics to the song, except for Bieber’s verse.
