вЂњHe says, вЂMa, I need a favor.вЂ™ And he begins to tell me how heвЂ™s got this deadline, and the next day this record goes up for pre-orders, and theyвЂ™re trying to get this voice onto it.вЂќ Khaled didnвЂ™t say whom the record was for, only that it was urgent-they had tried a bunch of different approaches on the hook, and nothing was working. Her first big hit, вЂњGirls CanвЂ™t Do What the Guys Do,вЂќ came out two years later it contains the lines вЂњGirls, you canвЂ™t do / what the guys do / and still be a lady.вЂќ It will sound familiar to anyone who has heard the BeyoncГ© and Jay Z song вЂњUpgrade U,вЂќ which samples it.Д«ut back to that phone call: вЂњKhaled is like my son,вЂќ Wright said, which is why she answered, despite the late hour. Later, at the age of twelve, she was discovered by a pair of songwriters and producers, who heard her humming a song at a record store. Wright herself has been playing in the sandbox since she was two years old, when she joined her mother and siblings in a gospel group called Echoes of Joy. I ainвЂ™t trying to be in their sandbox-I built the sandbox, but I watch вЂ™em play in it.вЂќ вЂњYou know, they are somebodyвЂ™s children, and IвЂ™m somebodyвЂ™s momma,вЂќ Wright said. Sometimes, when there is tension between the artists whom she keeps under her wing, she serves as a mediator. вЂњWe are all very, very close,вЂќ she said of her Miami rap friends, and a few of their moms. Though she is remembered around the world for two singles, вЂњClean Up WomanвЂќ and вЂњTonight Is the Night,вЂќ both now more than thirty years old, Wright has quietly conjured a second act as a confidante, muse, and teacher to some of the worldвЂ™s best-known hip-hop artists. Wright is close with other rappers, too: a few years back, she recorded an album with the Roots, and in 2001 she helped Trick Daddy, whom she has also known forever, wrangle a chorus of schoolchildren to sing the hook on his single вЂњIвЂ™m a Thug.вЂќ Khaled is also one of Betty WrightвЂ™s best friends in town, along with Puff Daddy, whose New YearвЂ™s Eve party she never misses, and Lil Wayne, whom sheвЂ™s known since he was fifteen and whom she trained in the art of breathing, phrasing, and pitch. On the line was DJ Khaled, the Miami-based hip-hop impresario, who is responsible for some of the biggest hip-hop hits in recent memory. But, when her phone rang, she answered it. вЂњI was saying, Boy, if I could just get up those steps, get in my bed-IвЂ™m not even taking a bath till the morning,вЂќ Wright, who is sixty years old, said in an interview on a recent Sunday afternoon, not long after getting home from church.

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