MusicNewsPusha T wrote McDonald’s “I’m Lovin’ It”A record industry exec claims that it was not Pharrell and Justin after all, but King PushShareLink copied ✔️June 2, 2016MusicNewsTextDazed Digital In a new interview with hot 97’s Ebro Darden, a former record industry executive called Steve Stoute has claimed that rapper Pusha T wrote the jingle for McDonald’s jingle “I’m Lovin’ It”. It was widely previously considered to have been Pharrell and Justin Timberlake, but as you can see in the video below, Stoute claims otherwise. “You know who did that?” says Stoute. “Pusha T. That’s crazy that Pusha T wrote the song to McDonald’s “I'm Lovin It.” Stoute is CEO of a marketing firm called Translation and was on the show talking about clients and brands that he’d worked with. “That rebranded McDonald’s for like the next decade,” says Darden. “They never had a tagline that they used around the world,” replies Stoute. Watch the interview below, with the Pusha T claims coming in at around four minutes. Read our Pusha T interview here. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREBehind-the-scenes at Oklou and FKA twigs’ new video shootBjörk calls for the release of musician ‘kidnapped’ by Israeli authoritiesZimmermannKindred spirits and psychedelic florals: Zimmermann heads to 70s Sydney ‘Her dumbest album yet’: Are Swifties turning on Taylor Swift?IB Kamara on branching out into musicEnter the K-Bass: How SCR revolutionised Korean club culture‘Comic Con meets underground rap’: Photos from Eastern Margins’ day festWho are H.LLS? Get to know London’s anonymous alt-R&B trioTaylor Swift has lost her grip with The Life of a Showgirl ‘Cold Lewisham nights’: Behind the scenes at Jim Legxacy’s debut UK tour All the pettiest pop beefs of 2025Has the algorithm killed music discovery?