Toosii on ‘Favorite Song’ Reaching Hot 100 Top 5, Working With Future on the Remix & More | Billboard News
Written by djfrosty on June 19, 2023
Toosii talks about his hit song ‘Favorite Song’ getting onto the Hot 100, the difference between working with Future and Khalid on the remixes, his love and how he’s been influenced by pop and country music, and more.
Toosii:
So I like to call myself Arnold Palmer. I’m like a mix of sweet tea and lemonade. Yeah.
Rania Aniftos:
A little bit of lemonade, a little bit of sweet tea.
Toosii:
Yo, what’s going on? It’s Toosii and you’re watching Billboard News.
Rania Aniftos:
Hi everybody. Its Rania Aniftos with Billboard News and we’re here with the hottest rapper of 2023, Toosii.
Rania Aniftos:
We have to talk about, of course, the hot 100. And you broke into the top five for the first time. How does it feel?
Toosii:
It’s a good feeling. It’s a blessing. It’s something that I’ve prayed for something that I’ve been working for. So just to be here, it’s crazy.
Rania Aniftos:
It must be crazy to see how ‘Favorite Song’ took off in general it has what 280 million global streams
Toosii:
Just to see the overall interaction you just from everyone and the support you know it’s been crazy. So you know, I appreciate everybody
Rania Aniftos:
When you wrote that song. Did you have that feeling? You knew you knew it was gonna be the one
Toosii:
It’s kind of hard to like sit here and be like, Nah, I didn’t know I just put it out there. Now those was like it was like one of those ones where like I knew.
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