During an interview with Complex on Monday, Muni Long, also known as Priscilla Renea, shared the backstory of Rihanna’s hit song “California King Bed.” She revealed that she was living in Miami and collaborating at We the Best studio with Jermaine from The Runners at the time. They provided her with the chords and other musical elements, and she quickly got to work after listening to the track.
Long continued: “At the time I was planning to move to L.A. I was actually online looking for furniture when Maine comes in the room, and he’s like, ‘What you got?’ I didn’t have anything, because I had been messing around, and I looked at my computer.”
That’s when she came up with a title.
“I said ‘California King Bed,’ and he said, ‘OK,’ and then he left. So I was like, ‘Oh, now I gotta write that,’ Long recalled.
She added: “I wrote the song in like 10 minutes. I was like, ‘Turn it up, let me get this done real quick,’ so I could go back to looking for my furniture.”
Long revealed that the song was originally supposed to go to Kelly Clarkson, but her publisher decided “they were going to cut it for Rihanna.”
“I was super excited,” she recalled. “She was on tour at the time, but she cut the song, and the rest is history. You wouldn’t think that she would do something like that.”