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Direct From Hollywood With Ryan Seacrest: 'What It Is' Was Actually Written for Another Superstar · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood.
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  Speaker 2: Well, in some ways, an artist's number one hit will
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  Speaker 2: always be their most important because it kicks open the door,
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  Speaker 2: introducing themselves to the world in the industry and giving
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  Speaker 2: them the platform for every other song to come.
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  Speaker 1: And for Doci, that first.
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  Speaker 2: Smash was undoubtedly What it Is block Boy featuring Kodak Black.
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  Speaker 1: But it turns out it almost wasn't hers.
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  Speaker 2: One of the Hook's primary songwriters, Bianca Blush Atterbury, revealed
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  Speaker 2: on her social that the song was actually made specifically
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  Speaker 2: for Normani. She was hired as part of a team
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  Speaker 2: by RCAA Records to write for Normani's debut album, and
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  Speaker 2: Blush says, out of the six songs she and her
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  Speaker 2: friends dreamt up, they all knew that What It Is
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  Speaker 2: would be a hit, but ultimately Normani and her team
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  Speaker 2: passed on it, which Blush took no offense to, understanding
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  Speaker 2: it didn't fit the vision. But a few years later
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  Speaker 2: it made its way to DOCI, and Blush adds that
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  Speaker 2: as soon as she heard that version, she said to herself, Wow,
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  Speaker 2: Doci was born to be a star, and the rest
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  Speaker 2: is history. Doci's latest Anxiety is out now that's
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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood.