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OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder & Leading Punjabi Artist Karan Aujla on Their Historic Collaboration: ‘We Manifested This’


OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder and leading Punjabi artist Karan Aujla discuss their historic collaboration, "Tell Me."

“He sends me a link and I was like, ‘Yeah, I already know who this guy is,’” recalls Tedder today, sitting in his West Hollywood home studio. The only time I’ve ever used any of that was if I’m doing Timbaland style hip-hop stuff because he leaned heavy into East Indian and Punjabi instruments. So I had to lean into the cadence of what his verses were and Ikky helped a ton because I was like, “I’m not going to be the white idiot that steps foot into a culture and misappropriates it.” It has to be exact.

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