"The Way" is a song by American singer Ariana Grande, featuring American rapper Mac Miller, from Grande's debut studio album Yours Truly (2013). The song was written by Amber Streeter, Al Sherrod Lambert, Jordin Sparks, Brenda Russell, Miller, and the producer Harmony Samuels. It was released by Republic Records on March 26, 2013, as the lead single from the album. The song samples Big Pun's 1998 song "Still Not a Player", which itself samples Russell's 1979 song "A Little Bit of Love".[5][6] "The Way" peaked at number nine on the US Billboard Hot 100, which became Grande and Miller's first top 10 song on the chart. The song was also Grande's first top-10 appearance on the Hot 100 for a lead female artist since Yael Naim's song "New Soul" charted in 2008. "The Way" was eventually certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for selling over three million units in the United States. An accompanying music video was directed by Jones Crow, and released on March 28, 2013. It depicts Grande and Miller dancing inside a room covered in balloons, as Miller takes several photographs of Grande.