How Diplo Is Making Pop Music Weird -With two songs burning up the charts this summer, the “Lean On” hitmaker tells TIME about working with Madonna, Justin Bieber, Tinashe and 2NE1’s CL
He has nearly a decade of hits to his name, but Diplo still likes sneak up on listeners. “A lot of people don’t know what records I’ve worked on until they maybe check my Wikipedia or Google the production credits,” the 36-year-old DJ-producer says. “But that’s cool to me. It’s going to be a surprise.”