Family (feat. Bebe Rexha, Ty Dolla $ign & A Boogie Wit da Hoodie)

French electronic music producer David Guetta rose to prominence atop the sparkling wave of DJs who combined Daft Punk's sleek house music with a pinch of electroclash punch at the start of the 21st century. Achieving international crossover success during the late-2000s EDM boom with the chart-toppers One Love and Nothing But the Beat, his house anthems became fixtures on the dance charts into the 2010s, often featuring famous names from the worlds of pop and rap, including frequent collaborators Nicki Minaj, Sam Martin, Sia, Morten, Chris Willis, Rihanna, Kelly Rowland, and Afrojack. Along with the latter two artists, Guetta also won a pair of Grammy Awards in 2011. In 2020, he released the EP New Rave and teamed up with Sia for the ebullient international synthwave/pop hit "Let's Love." In 2022, he hit the Top Ten of Billboard's Hot 100 with "I'm Good (Blue)" featuring Bebe Rexha and again paired with the singer in 2023 for the Grammy-nominated "One in a Million."

A native of Paris, the artist born Pierre David Guetta had been DJ'ing in France playing popular tunes, but his brain was particularly rewired in 1987 when he heard a Farley Jackmaster Funk track on French radio. He taped the track, brought a copy to a gig, and promptly cleared the floor with it during one of his own sets. Things loosened up a year later when acid house came to France and Guetta successfully promoted his own club nights. It was during one of those nights in 1992 that he met Robert Owens, a Chicago-based house legend who was touring Europe at the time. Guetta played Owens some of his own tracks, and Owens picked one he liked enough to sing over. The result was "Up and Away," a minor hit that lurked in garage DJ crates for the next four years.

Guetta's carefree attitude -- that he only produces good music while he's having casual fun -- kept the DJ from releasing anything until 2001's "Just a Little More Love." The track featured American gospel singer Chris Willis, who'd met Guetta while on vacation in France. Another slow-burner, "Just a Little More Love," kept popping up in sets for the next two years, first in an electro version and later in a pumped-up Wally Lopez remix. During this time, Guetta snuck out a bootleg remix of David Bowie's "Heroes," retitled "Just for One Day." Bowie gave the go-ahead to release the track officially, and Guetta soon had a massive hit on his hands. Guetta featured the liberated boot on his first mix CD, Fuck Me I'm Famous, named after Guetta's successful Ibiza-based party.

The fun-loving slacker DJ finally got around to releasing a collection of his own productions in 2004, Just a Little More Love, on Astralwerks. Guetta Blaster arrived that same year, followed by Poplife in 2007. Chris Willis sang lead vocals on the latter album, which spun off multiple dance singles in multiple countries. Fuck Me I'm Famous: International, Vol. 2 was then released in July 2008, giving listeners a taste of the stylish sounds that orchestrated Guetta's summer club events in Ibiza. A year later, he released One Love, a platinum-selling album featuring the singles "When Love Takes Over" with Kelly Rowland, "Sexy Bitch" with Akon, and "Gettin' Over" with Chris Willis.

In 2010, Guetta received five nominations at the 52nd Grammy Awards, two of them related to the One Love album and the other three for his work on the Black Eyed Peas' massive worldwide hit "I Gotta Feeling." That same year, One Love was reissued as One More Love, featuring a bonus disc of remixes and new tracks. A superstar guest list featuring Akon, Lil Wayne, Flo Rida, Usher, Chris Brown, and others would figure into his 2011 release Nothing But the Beat, but this time the DJ's songwriting was inspired by dramatic rock bands like Coldplay.

In 2014, Guetta released three singles on his own Jack Back label, all of which were rounded up on that year's Lovers on the Sun EP. Later that year, Guetta released his sixth studio album, Listen. Perhaps as a reaction to inadvertently finding himself a sort of unofficial godfather to the burgeoning EDM movement, the record saw him branching out of his electro-house comfort zone, experimenting with elements of hip-hop, alternative rock, R&B, and acoustic instrumentation, and featuring guest artists as diverse as Nicki Minaj, Emeli Sandé, Sia, the Script, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. In 2015, the LP was reissued as Listen Again with new songs and remixes added to the track list, including "Bang My Head" featuring Fetty Wap and Sia.

Over the next few years, Guetta issued a continuous stream of singles. In 2016, notable releases included the official UEFA Euro anthem "This One's for You" featuring Zara Larsson, which topped the charts in France, Germany, and Switzerland; "Shed a Light" with Robin Schulz and Cheat Codes; and "No Worries" with Disciples. The following year, Guetta issued a handful of additional collaborations with Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne ("Light My Body Up"), Afrojack ("Another Life"), Justin Bieber (the platinum "2U"), Kiiara ("Complicated"), and Charli XCX and French Montana ("Dirty Sexy Money"). He kicked off 2018 with a pair of Sia collaborations (a remix of "Helium" and "Flames"), while also scoring another Top Ten hit for "Mad Love" with Sean Paul and Becky G. His seventh set, the aptly titled 7, arrived in September. In addition to including a some of his previously released singles -- "2U" and "Flames" among them -- Guetta also recruited Anne-Marie, Bebe Rexha, J Balvin, Jason Derulo, Martin Garrix, Jess Glynne, Steve Aoki, Lil Uzi Vert, G-Eazy, and many more for the effort. A bonus second disc of material was also bundled with 7, collecting a dozen tracks recorded as his alter ego Jack Back.

Early 2019 saw Guetta team up with Spanish DJ Tom Staar for the single "This Ain't Techno." The EP New Rave arrived in July 2020 and included the track "Kill Me Slow" featuring Morten. Later that year, he worked with Sia on the Top Ten dance single "Let's Love." More well-received singles followed, including 2021's "Heartbreak Anthem" with Galantis and Little Mix, 2021's "Remember" with Becky Hill, and 2022's "Crazy What Love Can Do," again with Hill and Ella Henderson. Also in 2022, Guetta released "You Can't Change Me" with Morten and Raye and topped the Hot Digital Songs chart alongside Bebe Rexha with "I'm Good (Blue)." He appeared on multiple charts in 2023 with "Baby Don't Hurt Me," a collaboration with British singer Anne-Marie and American rapper Coi that sampled Haddaway's 1993 hit "What Is Love." He also reunited with Rexha for "One in a Million," which cracked the Top Ten of Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart. By the end of the year, both "Baby Don't Hurt Me" and "One in a Million" had picked up Grammy nominations for Best Pop Dance Recording. In 2024, he scored a Top 40 after hit joining forces with OneRepublic on "I Don't Wanna Wait." More standalone tracks followed, including "Feeling Good" with Hypaton, "Man in Finance" with Girl on Couch and Billen Ted, and a cover of Alphaville's "Forever Young" with Ava Max. In 2025, he reunited with Sia, scoring a U.K. dance chart hit with "Beautiful People." ~ Neil Z. Yeung

Rising as a songwriter for Eminem, Rihanna, and Selena Gomez, Brooklyn-born Bebe Rexha made her way from the studio to the stage, racking up hit singles with electronic artists (Cash Cash, David Guetta, Martin Garrix), rappers (G-Eazy, Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj), and even country duo Florida Georgia Line, with whom she recorded the 2017 chart-topping country-pop crossover single "Meant to Be." Although her work with other musicians has spanned genres, her own material centers on darker pop textures influenced by hip-hop and R&B, as heard on her debut, 2018's Expectations, and its 2021 follow-up Better Mistakes. In 2023, she pivoted to effervescent dance fare for Bebe, which included the Grammy nominated global smash "I'm Good (Blue)" with David Guetta.

Born Bleta Rexha in 1989, she began her musical journey at a young age. Performing in musicals from the age of four, she started to hone her skills in her early teens and was named Best Teen Songwriter at the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' annual Grammy Day event; she met a whole host of famous producers there. In 2010, Rexha was approached by Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz to form the project Black Cards, intended to reflect Wentz's more experimental and electronic side. Rexha provided vocals for several EPs before she left the band in 2012 to embark on a solo career. She began uploading demos and acoustic covers to YouTube before signing with Warner Bros. in 2013.

Rexha penned several hits for the likes of Selena Gomez ("Like a Champion") and Nikki Williams ("Glowing"), but it was "The Monster" -- her composition for Eminem and Rihanna -- that really caught the attention of the industry. The track reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and allowed Rexha to prepare for life as a solo artist. Following this success, she released her first EP, I Don't Wanna Grow Up, in May 2015, featuring the singles "I'm Gonna Show You Crazy" and "I Can't Stop Drinking Without You." As she continued to write for her full-length debut, Rexha scored a hit with a collaboration with rapper G-Eazy, "Me, Myself & I," which reached the Top Ten on the pop chart in 2016. She was also featured on the multi-platinum Martin Garrix hit "In the Name of Love," which had climbed into the Top 30 by the end of the year.

The first taster for her solo debut was the Captain Cuts-produced "I Got You," which appeared in late 2016 and reached the pop chart early the following year. Rexha's first album was actually a pair of EPs, beginning with All Your Fault, Pt. 1 in early 2017. A six-song set, it included guests Ty Dolla $ign on the Stargate-produced "Bad Bitch" and G-Eazy returning a favor on "F.F.F." All Your Fault, Pt. 2 followed in August, another six-track set including "The Way I Are (Dance with Somebody)" with Lil Wayne, and other features by 2 Chainz, Gucci Mane, Cashmere Cat, and country hitmakers Florida Georgia Line. Rexha's song with the latter act, the Grammy-nominated "Meant to Be," shot to number two on Billboard's Hot 100 and spent a record 28 weeks atop the Hot Country Songs chart.

The track would later land on Expectations, Rexha's debut full-length effort, which arrived in June 2018. The record featured appearances by Tory Lanez and Quavo and rose to number 13 on the U.S. album chart. The album single "I'm a Mess" proved to be another hit, rising into the U.S. Top 40 and receiving gold certification in the U.S. and Australia. Days after the 2019 Grammy Awards -- where she was nominated for Best New Artist -- Rexha released the single "Last Hurrah," her seventh song to chart on the Hot 100. Additional singles followed throughout the year including "Harder" and "You Can't Stop the Girl," the latter of which was written for the Maleficent: Mistress of Evil soundtrack.

In October 2020, she paired with Doja Cat for the song "Baby, I'm Jealous," with the single "Sacrifice" arriving early the following year. Both tracks appeared on 2021's full-length Better Mistakes. Produced by Jussifer, Greg Kurstin, the Six, and others, the album charted on the Billboard 200 and featured guest appearances by Travis Barker, Ty Dolla Sign, Pink Sweats, and more.

Rexha's next smash hit -- which would be her biggest to date -- arrived just a year later. Her sixth collaboration with David Guetta, "I'm Good (Blue)" interpolated Eiffel 65's Y2K dance classic "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" to great effect, receiving a Grammy nomination and topping charts in nearly two dozen countries. The song later appeared on her third LP, 2023's Bebe, which also included another Grammy-nominated Guetta collab, "One in a Million." Focused on throwback disco and dance-pop escapism, the album featured collaborations with Snoop Dogg ("Satellite") and Dolly Parton ("Seasons"). 2024 saw the release of the singles "Chase It (Mmm Da Da Da)" and "I'm the Drama." ~ Neil Z. Yeung

Since the dawn of the 2010s, Ty Dolla $ign has been steadily racking up hits, first with one of his many featured appearances and then with headlining singles on which his sly, explicitly hedonistic style of contemporary R&B was put on full display. After assisting the "worldwide underground" likes of Sa-Ra and Erykah Badu, Ty reached the mainstream through YG's "Toot It and Boot It" (2010), continued to gain hits as a collaborator, and as a solo artist narrowly missed the Top Ten with full-length projects such as Free TC (2015) and Beach House III (2017). Since then, he issued his third LP, the Top Ten Billboard 200-charting Featuring Ty Dolla $ign (2020). In 2021, he collaborated with dvsn for Cheers to the Best Memories and in 2023 joined forces with Kanye West to form a new project, ¥$, who released a pair of 2024 albums, Vultures 1 and Vultures 2.

The singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer, born Tyrone Griffin, Jr. -- the son of Tyrone Griffin, a musician who played with Lakeside and Teena Marie -- started making moves during the 2000s in his native Los Angeles. As one-half of Ty & Kory, the younger Griffin appeared on Sa-Ra's The Hollywood Recordings, Erykah Badu's New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War, and Shafiq Husayn's Shafiq En' A-Free-Ka, as well as Black Milk's Popular Demand. He reached the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in 2010 with YG's "Toot It and Boot It," for which he provided the hook. A pivotal moment, it preceded constant studio activity that resulted in solo and collaborative output issued throughout the decade.

Ty Dolla $ign made his major-label debut on Atlantic in 2013 with "Paranoid," which eventually went multi-platinum. "Or Nah," the follow-up, became his second single to hit the Top Ten of Billboard's Hot R&B Songs chart, and quickly went multi-platinum. Additional singles and appearances on commercial and underground releases alike led to the November 2015 release of Free TC, his debut album. Dedicated to his incarcerated brother, the guest-loaded set debuted at number 14 on the Billboard 200, boosted by "Blasé," "Saved," and "Wavy," all certified gold or platinum tracks.

During the next two years, Ty branched out stylistically as an accessory to pop hits such as Fifth Harmony's "Work from Home," the Suicide Squad: The Album smash "Sucker for Pain," and Jason Derulo's "Swalla." Major Lazer and Nick Jonas were also among the artists who enlisted his services, though these pop and club efforts were balanced out with assists for the likes of Fat Joe, 2 Chainz, and Meek Mill. As lead artist, the commercial mixtape Campaign arrived just ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election and became a Top 30 hit, highlighted by "No Justice," a sober protest song recorded with his still-jailed brother. Beach House III, Griffin's second proper album, was teased with genre-hopping singles involving Lil Wayne and the-Dream ("Love U Better"), and Damian Marley and Skrillex ("So Am I"). It hit number 11 upon its October 2017 release.

Griffin continued to excel primarily as a supporting artist for the next few years. Following a slew of collaborative one-offs highlighted by Post Malone's Hot 100-topping "Psycho" and Khalid's likewise multi-platinum "OTW," he and Jeremih partnered to jointly release the album MihTy. Ty co-starred on well over a dozen tracks in 2019, such as Kehlani's "Nights Like This," Megan Thee Stallion's number 11 hit "Hot Girl Summer," and Skrillex's "Midnight Hour," the last of which was nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Dance Recording. In 2020, he headlined a clutch of singles, including July's "Ego Death," featuring Kanye West, FKA Twigs, and Skrillex, and in August's charting "Expensive," on which he was joined by Nicki Minaj. Both tracks paved the way for his third full-length, Featuring Ty Dolla $ign, which arrived that October and landed at number four on the Billboard 200. His first U.S. Top Ten debut, the album featured several more guest-featuring singles, including "Spicy" with Post Malone and "By Yourself" with Jhené Aiko and Mustard.

The following year, after appearing on their 2020 album A Muse in Her Feelings, Ty recorded a full-length collaboration with Canadian R&B duo dvsn titled Cheers to the Best Memories. He also guested on David Guetta's "Family," released in several different versions, with the one featuring Bebe Rexha racking up the most streams. In 2022, Ty released the Wiz Khalifa collaboration "Champions" and the Mustard-produced "My Friends" (featuring Lil Durk). He began the following year with a single titled "2022," then collaborated with Alesso on the song "Caught a Body" and issued the solo track "Motion."

In 2023, Ty joined forces with Kanye West to form a new project, ¥$. The duo released their debut single "Vultures" in November of that year. They slowly leaked out information about the project in the lead-up to an oft-delayed debut full length Vultures 1 before finally releasing it in February of 2024. The album that included guest appearances from a number of famous artists including Lil Durk, Freddie Gibbs, James Blake and many others, and debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 chart. It spawned the chart-topping hit "Carnival," featuring Rich the Kid and Playboi Carti.

Though ¥$ initially claimed they would release subsequent chapters Vultures 2 and Vultures 3 as a trilogy at the rate of one album per month, it would be August of 2024 when Vultures 2 finally materialized. The album again included a host of guest appearances, this time making space for collaborations from Lil Wayne, Young Thug, Desiigner, and Kodak Black, and many more. ~ Andy Kellman

Nonchalant flows, memorable hooks, trap beats that make plenty of room for melody, and the occasional hint of R&B smoothness all combine into an effortless style for Bronx rapper A Boogie wit da Hoodie. The rapper hit the scene in 2016, releasing his debut mixtape, Artist, on his own label, but later signing with Atlantic. He scored big with the triple-platinum single "Drowning" in 2017, which led to the Top Ten hit The Bigger Artist and its chart-topping 2018 follow-up, Hoodie SZN. Boogie continued his commercial hot streak with projects like 2020's Artist 2.0 and the 2024 studio album Better Off Alone.

Born Artist Dubose in the Highbridge neighborhood of the Bronx, Boogie took inspiration from Kanye West and 50 Cent and began rapping during his teenage years. After spending some time in Florida, where be recorded his first songs, he returned home to New York in 2015 and founded Highbridge the Label with fellow rapper Quincy "QP" Acheampong. In March, he dropped his debut mixtape, Artist, that yielded the platinum singles "My S**t" and "Jungle." Just one month later, he dropped "Bag on Me" featuring Don Q. With a Meek Mill and DJ Khaled co-sign soon after and the Highbridge the Label: The Takeover, Vol. 1 mixtape released in May, the Atlantic label signed a deal with Highbridge and issued the singles "Bando" and "Timeless." The TBA EP followed in October.

At the start of 2017, Boogie was featured in XXL's Freshman Class feature. Later the same year, he released his debut full-length, The Bigger Artist, a number four Billboard 200 entry packed with appearances from Trey Songz, Chris Brown, Kodak Black, and Robin Thicke. In early 2018, Boogie featured on 6ix9ine's hit single "Keke" alongside Fetty Wap, then returned in June with his second EP, International Artist, another guest-heavy release that included J Alvarez, Jessie Reyez, and many more. His second full-length album, Hoodie SZN, arrived at the end of the year and topped the Billboard 200. Throughout 2019, Boogie kept a high profile by being featured on an array of singles by other acts including Ally Brooke's "Lips Don't Lie" and Khalid's "Right Back," while issuing singles of his own like "Mood Swings" and "Reply." Third studio album Artist 2.0 arrived in February of 2020, debuting at number two on the Billboard charts its first week of release and including a plethora of guest stars like Young Thug, DaBaby, Lil Uzi Vert, and more. As fans awaited the release of fourth studio album A Boogie vs. Artist, the rapper released the EP B4 AVA in December of 2021. The seven-song project reached as high as number 26 on the charts and included an appearance from Lil Durk on the song "24 Hours." Fourth studio album Me vs. Myself followed almost exactly a year later, with its original November 2022 release date pushed back a month so as not to compete with the Drake/21 Savage collaborative album Her Loss which was being released around the same time. Along with rapping, Boogie handled some of the production on Me vs. Myself, and was joined by several big name guests on the album, such as G Herbo, Roddy Ricch, H.E.R., and others. The album debuted in the Top Ten of the Billboard charts. In 2023, along with performing sold-out shows on multiple tours in support of the album, Boogie was featured on the lead single from the soundtrack to Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the Metro Boomin-produced "Calling." In advance of his next album, he released a three-song EP entitled B4 BOA in September of 2023, followed in May of 2024 by his fifth studio album Better Off Alone. The LP was once again heavy on features, including spots from Lil Durk, Young Thug, Future, and others. It debuted at number 18 on the Billboard 200 chart. ~ David Jeffries