Khalid contributed uncredited vocals to Kendrick Lamar's song " The Heart Part 4", released on March 24, 2017. His collaboration with Brasstracks, called "Whirlwind", was part of the Yours Truly & Adidas Originals Songs from Scratch series, and received over 700,000 SoundCloud plays. In January 2017, Alina Baraz's single "Electric", featuring Khalid, was released. The album's second single " Young Dumb & Broke" became a sleeper hit, becoming a hit at rhythmic formats and crossing over to pop radio into early 2018. The music video for "Location" premiered on The Fader's website. With production from Syk Sense, Tunji Ige, and Smash David, "Location" finished the year 2016 at number 20 on the US Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart and reached the Top 10 on the US Hot R&B Songs chart on January 21, 2017. His single "Location" began charting, which led to his being featured in many publications, including Billboard, Yahoo!, BuzzFeed, and Rolling Stone. Shortly after graduating from Americas High School, Khalid reached number two on the Billboard Twitter Emerging Artists chart in July 2016. Khalid began writing and creating music in high school he posted his early works to SoundCloud. He attended Carthage Central High School in Carthage, New York for his first three years of high school before he and his mother moved to El Paso, Texas, where he attended Americas High School for his senior year. In high school, Robinson studied singing and musical theater. Wolfe worked as a supply technician and became a member of the Army corps. He spent his childhood in various locations due to his mother, Linda Wolfe, and father's military careers, including Fort Campbell in Kentucky, Fort Drum in Watertown, New York, and six years in Heidelberg, Germany. Robinson was born in Fort Stewart, Georgia. 2.3 2020–present: Scenic Drive and Everything Is Changing.In 2019, Khalid was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. Khalid has received multiple accolades including six Grammy Award nominations, six Billboard Music Awards, three American Music Awards and a MTV Video Music Award. 3 in the US and earned him a Grammy Award for Record of the Year nomination.
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In April 2019, he released his second studio album, Free Spirit, which debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart. In September 2018, he released the number-one Rhythmic song " Better" as the lead single from his top-10 EP Suncity. The following year, Khalid released the number-one pop songs " Love Lies" with Normani and " Eastside" with Benny Blanco and Halsey, both of which tied the record for longest charting songs on the Mainstream Top 40 chart and reached the top-10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Later that year, he was featured on Logic's US top-ten single " 1-80" with Alessia Cara, which earned him a Grammy Award for Song of the Year nomination. The album spawned the US top-20 singles " Location" and " Young Dumb & Broke", and was later certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). He rose to fame after the release of his debut studio album, American Teen (2017). Khalid Donnel Robinson (born February 11, 1998) is an American singer and songwriter signed to Right Hand Music Group and RCA Records.