Chris Young says that Kane Brown was his first choice when it came to choosing a buddy to join him on his new single, “Famous Friends.” He explains: “I think the biggest thing for me as far as why I asked Kane is because we are friends and it extends further than the 'hey, you're friends because you're both in music together.' Like, I love that dude, and it's been great getting to know him over the years and he was the first person that popped in my head. I was like, 'I wanna do this song, I wanna add somebody else to this. It'd be really cool if it was me and Kane,' cause I've guested on his stuff before but I've never had him guest on something of mine, and then obviously now with it being a single is really, really cool.”
Chris co-wrote “Famous Friends” while at a headline tour stop in Tampa in 2018.
The autobiographical song mentions Rutherford County, where Chris grew up in Tennessee, and Kane’s hometown of Hamilton County along with Nashville’s Davidson County – a.k.a. Music City.