You’ve really got to hand it to Kendrick Lamar, the man knows how to bring together a wide and diverse range of talent to his musical projects. For his new album DAMN. the Compton rapper pulled together mega-pop stars like Rihanna and U2 along with lesser-known artists like Zacari and the Internet member Steve Lacy. Recently, Lacy, who just put out a solo project named Demo made an appearance on Apple Music where he talked about how he ended up working with Kendrick.
“The song I did for him came from this acoustic session that was recorded on my iPhone. I showed Anna Wise how to record her vocals and she recorded this whole idea over these acoustic guitar chords I came up with, a small little drum loop that I made and then I took her vocal stems and made a beat over it. This was the track where he [Lamar] was like ‘Yo, put your number in my phone I need this.’ I went there a couple more times to work on some stuff and this song he was just sure about. He loved this one. Then I hit him up again and he said he’s just finishing up the album so I go ‘Tracklist?’ with the eyeball emojis and he said ‘LOL.’ It was called “Wasn’t There” at the time but it’s called ‘PRIDE’ now. It’s still hitting me I still haven’t fully gripped what I just did but yeah it’s crazy to think I was in a classroom just six months ago.”
A few days before DAMN. dropped, Lacy took to Instagram to express his appreciation to K. Dot for allowing him to contribute to the project.
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Listen to his comments about the making of DAMN. below.
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