Starrah & Diplo – “Swerve”

Starrah & Diplo – “Swerve”
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Brittany Hazzard, better known as Starrah, has one of the most impressive songwriting catalogs in pop music over the last 24 months, having written Rihanna’s “Needed Me,” Travis Scott’s “Pick Up the Phone,” Drake’s “Fake Love,” and half of Calvin Harris’ recent Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1.

In the demo for “Pick Up the Phone,” in which Starrah sings the part that eventually was given to Scott, you can immediately detect her idea of songwriting that blurs the line between rap and R&B (that one of her early collaborators was Jeremih should…