Ed Sheeran has been releasing star studded collabs from No. 6 Collaboration Projects and the fans are loving them all thus far. The “Shape of You” singer was able to sit down with Charlamagne Tha God for an interview where he explained that he doesn’t look at No. 6 Collaboration Projects as his next album. He was able to admit that the inspiration for the release actually came from the 2001 version of “Lady Marmalade” which included the strong artist sensations of Christina Aguilera, Mya, Lil’ Kim and Pink. The song is originally done by Patti LaBelle.
Sheeran also admitted that he wanted to recreate a male version of the song with Bruno Mars and Justin Bieber.
“This project actually started with one idea I had. It was such a silly idea, I had an idea of doing (‘Lady Marmalade’), I was like, ‘You could get Bruno, Bieber and me on a record, how fun would that be?'” he recounted in the sit-down chat with Charlamagne, which was published on Tuesday (May 28). “The first person I rung was Bruno and he was just like, ‘I mean, let’s just do a song together, just us,’ and that’s how it happened. So then I did a song with Bruno, I did a song with Bieber. These individual songs started happening and then it just turned into a project. It was a really great experience putting the record together.”
To hear more about the British music scene and more on the first collab release, watch below. The No. 6 Collaboration Projects is set to drop on July 12.
