Keith Urban’s new album, Ripcord, will be released Friday (May 6th), and he’s got a few special guests on the record. In addition to Carrie Underwood on “The Fighter,” there’s also “Sun Don’t Let Me Down,” featuring Nile Rodgers and Pitbull.

Keith says the song, which he wrote and co-produced with Nile and busbee, had a musical break which they were just going to let “simmer,” but he heard Pitbull on the radio and felt his “swagger” would work perfectly on the song.

“I called the guys up and said, ‘Should we send this track to him and see what he does with it?’ And they said, ‘Sure.’ So, we sent it. He loved it. The crazy thing was that we gave him no direction at all. We just said, ‘Here’s your 16 bars, just do something. Anything. It’s a blank canvas. Just say what you want to say.’ And thankfully, he loved it,” says Keith. “I had no idea what to expect when I unwrapped the gift so to speak when he sent it to my house. I was like, ‘Okay, what’s this gonna be? What did he say?’ And he sent back this insane verse and really finished out the song.”

Keith is currently making his way up the country charts with his latest single, “Wasted Time.”