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"Naughty Boy has claimed that Zayn Malik of One Direction can rap and &amp;quot;spit bars&amp;quot;. Speaking to Capital&amp;#039;s Max at the Ivor Novello Awards, the producer explained that he has been recording new music with the boyband in the studio.   &amp;quot;Zayn&amp;#039;s actually quite a good rapper,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve been in the studio doing some One Direction stuff and you know, he can spit bars! Of course he can! Big up Zayn and his bars.&amp;quot; Naughty Boy also revealed that the song includes collaborations with Emeli Sand\u00C3\u00A9 and Sam Roman. He stated: &amp;quot;The song&amp;#039;s amazing that we&amp;#039;ve done. Emeli [Sand\u00C3\u00A9] wrote on it as well and this new guy Sam Roman who&amp;#039;s on my next single as well.&amp;quot; The &amp;#039;La La La&amp;#039; producer explained that it wasn&amp;#039;t a natural decision to record with One Direction. &amp;quot;No, no, no, it wasn&amp;#039;t,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I actually turned [the opportunity] down the last two albums. [But then] I met Zayn at the Brits.&amp;quot;  Naughty Boy explained that he had a &amp;quot;natural understanding&amp;quot; with Malik because of their backgrounds. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re both from Pakistani backgrounds. We both come from similar kind of backgrounds,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s from Bradford, I&amp;#039;m from Watford. In terms of how we grew up, there was a natural understanding.&amp;quot; Watch the music video for Naughty Boy&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Think About It&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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