Kendrick Lamar: 'DAMN' Interview | Apple Music

look at this place yeah yeah yeah barbecue later yeah I got two but you will grow I try bar so everybody even though exactly eat it I will drink out on this eat it you're fine Katella 2017 I suppose we should set the scene change work you know we're here it's Saturday morning before weekend one so your best performance will be tomorrow night yeah just on the surface the way people react to the record as a body of music do you indulge in that or life's up to experience that what the album comes out or do you disconnect man as soon as I hit master and I just turn that thing you can I try not to listen to it or even see the actual response you know for a while because I've been attached to this you know piece of art for the last and you know year and some change I've indulged so much I only want to hear it you know I just wanted to give it to the people man and let them take it and live with it and breathe it you know and then when I come back on that stage that's what I want to feel it that's what I want to see it that's what I want to see your reaction you know because I can't get that same reaction on the internet you know through some comments you know when I go out there and I see people just really taking these songs to heart that's the reaction so nerd' headline is knowing knowing your can know entrusted goes look you know his but here's the overview you know you know you have to want to send it to young I got a curve very you know I'm so desperate to tell you you don't want to know I mean Internet is a tricky place man no easy and the way our minds work in a psychological matter you know we only going to see the good things anyway no we're gonna black out and the negative things you know everybody's not going to appreciate it and I know how it works oh I don't only want to you know gravitate towards it you know I'm going to go out there and I want to see is you sitting in the crowd looking at me with the mommy face and then I can actually record right yeah or you you know enjoying yourself yeah well okay how do i navigate this next to be interview without pulling you into a world you don't to be in ie the reaction of the record but I feel compelled to just share with you that you know we all absolutely love this record appreciated and people are really really pulling it apart and I think that the kind of music that you make in the way that you make it in the way that you carry yourself and the reticence you have to over explain things and and how deep the music and dense music is what's thought you really drives people to want to start pulling it apart micromanaging each of these songs right you know and rearranging ideas and thoughts and are you at least aware that that happens I mean you make music that lends itself to conspiracy effectively me yeah that's mean I'm definitely aware that because prior to me going and recording the record everything is probably 80% premeditated first you know before I actually put the words you know over the reference track or going to studio on lay down vocals everything for me is about execution because I could go on with a thousand ideas but if I'm not executing it right it doesn't feel at home to me you know so I like to put a lot of different things and you know work things and messages in my music cuz I want to live further than two weeks you know further than attention span over you know how we all were kids you know and we take you we listen to it and we move on but I want to live for the next 20 years so you have to listen to it over and over and over again you know to fully understand the direction and the message I put in there the execution of it and I want you to do that you know I want to challenge the way you think and challenge the way you take in music you're hiding things on the back of couches and things that just that's what excites me you know and I listen to Jay Z coming up with his kid when I listen to Eminem pot you know those things I couldn't understand but as years progressed and I'm going back and listen to it again and I've learned and I've grown and I'm matured these things blew me away you know when I found out what they was talking about in the house certain things connected to other albums and stoves that they told growing up in a communities you know and their whole perspective over so in doing that I loved to have that same type of impact on my lesson you mentioned three of the greatest artists Nemo Jay Z yeah Eminem into pie all of which I hear in your music in a respectful way yeah I kind of want to just draw one word on HSN I see I feel like for me jay-z is it's beautiful combination of this kind of bravado and it's confident and there's also kind of vulnerability and honesty is that something that's influenced you drag your life because I hear that in your music you know that the ability to be able to share your own life experience but I don't I feel like I'm I'm living vicariously through that almost like I'm watching a series yeah definitely hold on influenced my boy Dave Attell yelled in his garage you know oh my I live sounded like Jay Z my words my mouth my flow he was an early reference when you were trying to star him Eminem I mean I grew up off pot you know again from County but jay-z I wanted to have the conversational yes type of word playing aspect of things you know you know where I'm engaging in the story I'm just having fun he just felt like he was natural and he was fluent with it and didn't even feel like what I felt he didn't write it make sense because never sent me a zero yeah I did that too today I just read about your video and it's in your head yeah but it all you know it all works for me years down the line when I can go in and just do the craziest verse you know just off all the emotions enough my own experiences you know what I don't feel like I need to actually put the thoughts down on paper you know at first I was doing it because I just want to pee like jay-z you know but in their time it became a practice you know and by the time I got back to write my rhymes you know I knew the full potential in that I do we create a process of met and what worked in that and I also knew how to go in there and just spill out my feelings and show how I really you rely on both and definitely the gaming in has been particular on this record up until this record no one has ever can put so much in to one bar two bars four bars sixteen yeah a full verse full song and album at the end of listening to an Eminem record the amount of information and ideas and humor and tragedy that's coming out you as a fan is just overwhelming and you very much are that kind of artist too and that's obviously important to you that no word is wasted mmm definitely uh as you love worse as you love how to bindle I love how to break them I love how to twist them turn on make them move couplets am I gonna fit this to me if you had this conversation with him if you guys bonded over this because he citizen he's like that same thing you know I like to take words and I like to pin into my will and things like me thinks that should've wine one yeah you can manipulate it you know you can manipulate it and that shows the true craft and you schwartzman ship you know a lot of a lot of the guys that actually digging too uh taking things that don't even necessarily rhyme that they get them excited to know you figured out how to make their ride you know and I don't take this couplet and make it a double entendre at the end it's all acrobatics you know there's our Acrobat agree that excites me when I hear the people do it it gives me a drive and hunger like to pot is more than just an influence of an artistic point of view it feels like his spirit is traveling through your records now many respects the way to you refer to him and is deep reference point for you obviously had a huge role on whatever butterflied with that with the piece at the end which was beautifully done but you record some again on this record particular talking about it you know imagine how this must be how I felt when he felt like the apocalypse was coming you know I mean it so he never too far away from your thoughts never ever what it's just some man that that I hold dear just in my memories of just growing up in the city I mean just do impact you know not only on me but on the coat it's something I can never forget you know from physically seeing them to hearing them on record to him applying themselves in the community and actually being right there with us it's just something that I hold dear you know no matter how you think times are coming to my own you know it's Kendrick Lamar which I felt I've done that over the years you know you're growing to your own artist I will always have that sense of reaching a certain standards as far as you know empathy and compassion toward a record the same way POC approach music it will always be back of my head to never forget that no matter how big the hit records no matter how big the album hits always had a compassion and that's why his memory and his legacy and my music will never leave look there's a thing that we have to talk about on this record man yeah you know it's coming which is that you say several times and you make a statement and you made it hop hop for you pick that out we all knew that was going to make it on the record okay the palace right you know but there's always a throne there's always a crown and rap that's how it started my DJ's better than your DJ I'm a better rapper than me what is what is the greatest rapper alive what are you referring to you you are the greatest rapper alive I got to I didn't I do come on I'm so passionate about hip-hop man like I don't know what era everybody else comes from but when I listened man like we played house parties row every night like I loved it to a point I can't even describe it you know and when I heard these artists say they're the best coming up I said I'm not doing it to have a good song for one good rap or a good hook or a good bridge I want to keep doing it every time period and to do it every time you have to challenge yourself and you have to confirm to yourself not anybody else confirm to yourself that you're the best period I don't know one can take that away from you period and that's my drive that's my hunger I'll always have and at this point right now I've got the years and the time and effort and the knowledge in the history you know I've done on the culture and the game I've gotten from you know those before being respect I have for them I want to hold myself high on that same pedestal ten fifty years from now and that's what that's where you were going when you were so blunt on control you're like I need to say this this is what I mean yeah well what we're doing it for right this is this is culture this is not something you just play with you know get some few dollars and get out you know people live a life to this music period you know it's my partner similarly right now that they listen to rap every day because it's the only thing that can relate to their stories and their tribulations they live in breathing we can't play with this and you have to take in consideration what you write down on their paper and if you're not doing it to say the most impactful of doing it to be the best you can be for the listener to live that they live to who what are we done what we doing here we came out of a you know experience with the butterfly which as albums go was was different again um you know this is state of mind that was sort of state of times exactly and you know I wondered when you put out to the butterfly but were you aware of what you created as a document and what it said and did the reaction that the record received eventually you realize what it was doing and healthy word document and using it beyond just music but that something you'd hoped for definitely definitely if some I want to share later on you know what we're going into my community was around the world what's going on with my people I always feel the need to approach is an aspect where I'm not only thinking about right now this record has to live and teach the same way Thalia same way Jade the same way common the same way ice cube taught us back in 91 I went back 50 years later now I learned from it this album has to teach not only in these times but for the future you know to understand our history what we was going through in 2010 2012 2014-15 and we can go back and you can apply that knowledge whatever is going on in the future that right there is going to help the next individual the next kinder tomorrow the next kid on the corner to make whatever situation and a better situation not only for themselves but for those around them you know so the success of that record didn't come from the accolades and the awards for me it came from people going out there and stinging all right in the middle of these streets and you know taking pride and digging machine into where they come from and where they want to go you know and expressing themselves a lot of people don't have voices out here so to see them actually express themselves through song you know the lyrics that I wrote that's confirmation for me you know that's confirmation for me that the passion and the insight the thoughts that I put into these records you know it's far beyond me and the Pember butterflies that that they gave me this this fireman a different type of fire to know that music is niche it's not about you know putting your lives and saying cool things on on on the record they just kept it just reaffirm you know confirmation for me that what I do it's not for Kensington Hardman my period and that record did that for me and let me know that you know as people out there to go to will dig that one here is the success of a record in those terms that have reached so many people in a deep way and ultimately you had to try and detach yourself from that connection and some would work out because it belongs to them now and yeah you know but also and correct me if I'm wrong but I hear will themes of self-preservation on Dan yeah day right ok I did that I made that it worked it's going to it's working it's going to continue to work but what does it take a toll on you and at what point do you withdraw yourself back into something that you can control because you can't control what people are doing with butterfly yeah definitely um the best way for me to put it to paper butterfly would be the idea of the thought of changing the world you know and how we work and how we approach things down will be the idea I can't change the world until I change myself you know so when you listen to records like pride humble lusts love these are just human emotions and me looking in the mirror and coming to grips with them you know and taking out how I did a world itself and combine them into records I will hope the listener can take heed and grab something from both of them to ideas and carry out their day to the best potential of themselves may see okay first the song titles the words the idea the list that the track listing has become or the music and then you would apply words to the song again it will be remuda it will be the music so you finish the track and then you go this is the word that's can identify well what happens is that word comes across in some of the lyrics yeah you know while I'm writing this the first thing I grabbed from flourish inspiration the word would come across in some of the lyrics and I support them I just pull that word out but keep the record you know and then that actual workers will represent the whole idea of the song there's a lot of lost versus you know an imagined rich let's get a few sort of effects on the record you see just over a year you're working on the album yeah yeah how do you start a record does it have a starting point or do you just are you just creating before you know man I sit and I think all day you know all day as I said 80% of it is just it's me prepping you know myself to get back in there you know to first acknowledge how I'm feeling in the moment okay is it as simple as you asking yourself what do I want or effect what do I have to say this time what can I say after what I just went through it's more about what's true to me and what will impact the person listening the idea of making that connection again but without being a false story you know your people to write about anything but if if I don't fill it in and listen to sure nothing will fill it simple as that so the first idea is me coming to grips what I'm feeling at the moment you know when I have records like feel or how records like fear or pride you know these are some of the first initial ideas you know coming across music I sit with beats you know we create them from scratch and I just sit and live with it until I'm able to reach that point of this one I feel like that's a record take day anybody take months month you could take months the right approach or I can take two minutes you know and we understand in that process and knowing how I work you know to execute it is the best for me and I have a great team around me that it has a lot of patience because sometimes I can just pour these words out of sky I have to really just indulge myself in it hmm so tea started making this record just over a year ago we were still in a very different situation in America we had different presidents yeah and it was still very much in that world of took them to butterfly and then within you know months within it last year at all changed everything changed yeah you know and I'd imagine that you know you're someone who absorbs what's going on around you and was it hard for it not just via directly into that world there because politics change so dramatically open oh yeah oh yeah and definitely is definitely tough I mean I have a lot of Records yeah a lot of Records and you expressed yourself quite early it so you have records that could cover that oh yeah definitely heavily easily mmm just off of pure frustration just off a simple the wow factor I was going on and yeah simple as that definitely so what happens is I have these records and you know certain things that are any songs and Knobloch I made poor pieces from you know to make sure that the cover is covered to where I feel like I feel a better about it that the listener know or they he know you know so special sharpest message in the shorty a month finally shorted more yeah yeah exactly a lot of people were probably expecting a heavier reflection of that of this time yeah because of what Devin would butterfly and the ground people thought okay we're in a different place now don't come president is that going to be more heavily reflected on the new music I think music right exactly but I wanted the more self you know get self evaluate evaluation and discipline because what's going on now we're not focusing on him what's going on now we focus on ourselves you see you know different nationalities and cultures are coming together men and actually standing up for themselves you know saying and I think that's the pure reflection of this record prior to me it's even happening prior to even coming out we say okay we can't control now we see we can't control what's going on out there you know it's a whole nother power to be so what we can do now we can start coming together and figuring out our own problems and our own solutions you know and I think this I believe I know just this is what this album reflects its what dam is yeah take a look take a look at yourself in ourselves exactly just stop blaming everybody else for the decisions that we didn't make at proactively proactive proactive I once I going through the record because I'm you know 14 14 pieces of music or 14 tracks yes starting with blood blood comparable now there's many things in there you're gonna have to pull up your line because you know me my job is to go deep and their knowledge is like Gandhi but to protect yourself as and we're and protected stuff but I mean parent let's just talk about it what is it what is it in relation to the record what can you tell us about that opening because I know that you want people to discover it in time but it is it to me it's a parable yeah what can I say about that what I'm saying about that it is the one of the most interesting pieces on the record man I don't even think I can find a wait but wait to tell you why I recommend without telling you about the record um it's a new life mm-hmm it's a new life there's the beginning of the angel the end of the beginning I can't tell you that that's what I can't tell you come on now that's the whole thing come on chop penny I know that's the whole thing okay all right DNA as opening lines you know I got a little I got royalty inside my DNA and did you know when you came out with that work that I was making that track that was the kind of stop many respects oh he's gonna be juggling Lima trickle oh yeah yeah definitely definitely um this one lesson I learned from Ice Cube he said uh if you first opening lines don't grab the listener it ain't period you know it has to be here we go man yeah yeah yeah come on man yeah it has to be a statement and I don't care if the statement is blunt or the statement is you know he'll back they gotta fill it regardless you know saying and people are going to fill it if they know it's real and true to you I've had a lot networking person I think you get a lot out very quick I mean the idea of G and then you sum it up Brittany Lee it again with six money murder algae and they make it about all of us but it's pretty personal journey the beginning you're like I'm throwing you yeah definitely stick type of themes in that in their record it's me recognizing the world around me to be recognizing the lifestyle that I've grown to see and indulge in from time to time from a famous perspective - coming to grips to the idea of knowing who man was you know as a seven-year-old boy in figuring out who they see as Kendrick Lamar you know and taking all these different aspects and personalities from my own perspective for me for my soul and putting them in the record and you know so you're going to hear different tones you're going to hear a baritone you're going to hear me breaching out the water like a and well you know and you're going to hear that that same hunger in that same desire that I had as a kid you know but directly to my own DNA to my own bloodline it's just everything allowed you have this remarkable relationship with religion at least in your world yeah the way that it features is it's hard to put put it in a circle you know I mean but it's constantly there and DNA you make reference to it shows me weapon and I'd made me think like you know you often refer to yourself as as it's almost like where would you be in the religious line as hundreds of years ago as opposed to right now right yearning right I've always had that and then we are spiritual beings really and that's something I can't ever run from me music you know and when I say as a weapon going back to the line at your reference I always felt like God use me as a vessel period you know whether to show my flaws whether to show my intellect to show my pain to show my hurt to share my stories to share his message all across the board you know that's that's me personally that's always been a vessel you not say the nastiest thing on record period but I still feel like that's a vessel you need to hear that because I can't sugarcoat the reality of what's going on out here I can't sugarcoat the reality of my imperfections period so when you hear certain things and certain things you may not like you may have discomfort from it's out of my hands these words you know and I just made up words you know when I sound sitting and I live with you know and I really gone into him these are ideas just come way beyond me and that's just how I feel about it so day one what would my quilt has a serious wave right now yeah and livable if you work on perfect pine as well it's one of my favorite songs on Randy a track incredible what about your relationship within creatively and how you guys get what you get together and what you like about working with me would you you know was crazy about me I might will we've been in the studio for a long time like longer than we would not long hanging you guys will know but we never made records you know he always said teach of the man one day we're gonna make the record yeah we're gonna make joints you know and we always say timing that's our thing timing is everything hit me on the text if you want is it time yet I not any time and then telling it how do you how do you did somebody die like that I mean what happens is you know you build a relationship with able you know and it's further than just you know lip service you beyond radish kind of smaller talking in you know so what was it or someone ego right how'd you I was Club um just a moment how I was feeling from the aggression I want to take in the approach that I want to take and uh the urge feel I know you know the producers you know to go to I know who's going to going to bring that thing that inspires the right lyrics for me you know so I want to talk to you about yeah and we have to talk about I mean the way that it fits into the record the news report it's very IceCube actually the way they've taken people would pull apart his philosophy and take that is back in it oh yeah so you know that report that came out that followed the BT performance when did you first hear about that when I first hear about that um probably as soon as it came out you should see it yeah well someone sent to Temple right yes I would see it alive I thought it was just a trip you know I thought it was a click a click bait because anybody that know me they know that you know I represent my people you know and be cultured the right way so to try to attack my character you know and make it actual stunts I wasn't for it mmm do you have a relationship with media and the sense that you use it or you look for information or do you detach yourself from that oh yeah yeah I'm aware definitely definitely I have to see what's going on have to know what's going on I have to do my research and what's going on to let me know that you're not just feed me but yeah I got to find a backstory and I had to apply my own knowledge mmm he's gonna need you to his job right now it's the media doing the media always has some twists and some Turnus you know like my mother say you gotta know when to listen and when to shut your ears off holding them and when the photo hmm let's talk about the song called element again yeah I love the Facebook kid Capri and the mixtape king legendary play analogy and DJ and do the whole thing which was what was the inspiration by using kid Capri oh man that's a great question funny thing is that was probably one of the first ideas I had for this record correct I wanted it to feel like I wanted to feel like just the raw elements of hip-hop you know what I'm using 808 so we're them using some boom bap drums you know the idea of having kid Capri you know the initial thought was having more like real trappy 808 you know something I've never heard from him and um I got in studio man I had like a thousand tape you know he's the greatest you know to ever even do period not expelled mantid yeah he's there he's rockin the talk about loyalty that's fast for a little bit I love skill you know that really but I really want to get to oil T because you work with Rihanna on that record I mean one of a few key sort of outward collaborators on that outside of production work yeah how did that happen how was that experience for you in the same room when they paint a picture for us yeah definitely man I've always wanted to work Rihanna I loved everything about her you know her artistry how she represented women you know to to to not only beat them selves but express themselves the way she expressed herself through music and I should care yourself I love everything about her so I always want to work with her I had the record I did the record and immediately her name just popped up reached out and locked in the studio we made happen good vibes great vibe quickly done great flash she got amazing energy she's a vibe itself yeah yeah love yeah it's like it's a beautiful love song but of course complex is always yeah tell us about that man my guys ech yeah the guy singing on the record was in the studio vibing he planned tracks at the track at the track at the track this dude is an amazing talent and I've always loved to have fresh ears and bring fresh well present you know fresh talent to the world peer because it's so much good out there that you gotta always make sure that people are able to hear it and being that a lot of don't get hurt that's great he's one of the guys so he's playing this record man just beating these drums and and it just feels like euphoria you know immediately we knocked it out probably like the next day beautiful experience to be able to focus on something as as a positive is that yeah I mean that's a pretty gift to really try to love song like that you have to put yourself in a place we needed to try to put everything else to one side exactly that's why I say we we knocked it out as soon as possible yeah yeah yeah I heard the beat and immediately you know is I just go back to this to this space of you know being a teen and you just now figuring out what is the concept of actually further being attracted to a woman but actually love and so on you know and filling that type of love and getting your heart broken you know going back to that space and and the simple idea in the simple concept I love and they're filling amongst all the other madness around album I was going to ask you don't you have that in your life to be settled in a relationship you know that cementing well account strong must be hugely grounding given what the kind of craziness that you exist in its own normal existence exactly and that's the year in the year you know you can't have a love you know without your pride affecting it you know without having I'm going to take your ego out the situation you know doing your humble the idea of that you know around you know so I felt there was a perfect exclamation Martin er you know what's over xxx yeah features you to bonus offensive you know to me and and in public that America is an idea and he sort of sentiment is in that song it talks about it's it's a sound it's not a place direct you know um crazy lyrics crazy lyrics couple bars and tactful yeah what is what is xxx me to York wizard xxx is the idea of complete chaos in madness that's what I got from you um organized madness controlled Magnus you know us trying to control this Magnus so when you hear them lyrics or what he's saying you know it's a place you know it's ideas it's a kind of I was trying to control that idea do lyrics do song you give it a good idea even if the original idea of what America is for better for worse gets a Content idea a Content idea simple is it hmm you know that that's one of the songs that you do kind of like to touch on Donald Trump as presidents but it makes its way into that again in a situation where you're like you know okay this is the world we live in right now yeah wasn't world we were in before you had a short you know you have a really personal relationship with Barack Obama and I wonder what that lift in you as a person the chance to meet him the chance to share thoughts with him and have ideas with him as the president at that moment in time what he took from that experience what I took from that experience was the idea of knowing that it takes more it's going to take more than just an eight-year a idea of four years idea of change you know a lot of times being a kid when he was elected but not a kid just a younger adult we get the idea where I got the idea that going for 360 like that so we having a conversation with him in him sitting me down he says it changed them you know don't start why I'm here it starts once we leave the space that were here that was idea you know in subconsciously that goes to the idea of me self evaluating my own personal thoughts the way I think and what I'm going to take from this meeting do when I go outside to the building you know so that was the experience that someone always holds dear just the idea of knowing that in the moment of time I have to think further than this year or last year got to prep yourself for the next decade of what you're going to do that's going result to change an idea or thoughts that we have consumed for so many years you guys are free to hook now right you're gonna have that game we've got the court right here that the court right here and jump on that PJ you keep putting this out in the media - I gotta see that left-handed person we got the court right here that's my gonna weigh this how much to talk about I believe we're coming to an end of our time I mean I just want to leave anything I'm done so I mean it I'm gonna get to duckworth okay I mean this is incredible into the record which just shows how tenuous it all is do you know what I mean like it's on it's on a road because it's on a tightrope at all times and left or right can change everything all time yeah when did you realize that that story that had happened when did you realize that they knew each other we did that we did that story gets shared believe you in the room when they work it out and look to each other I mean just about a year after I met top dog man when I was 16 so my pops came to the studio after I've been locked in with him for a minute and we got a relationship now bring my pops too you know he heard you know dealing with top dog but my pops person don't know miss top dog you know the industry norm is top dog before you stop dog he was another name and so when he walked in their room and he seen that top dog was this guy they flipped I mean flip and still to the day and top flips as well totally a nice straightaway oh yeah still to this day they laugh and they laughed and they trip out and they tell the same story over and over to each other you know have you been waiting to tell that story have I been waiting was it just the right time it was just the right time I'm top himself didn't know I was going to do it or even execute it in that fashion to beat the last song or to be anywhere just making it make sense I've been planning for him and he flipped you know because further than the song when you really can can you hear the word hear your life you know in words you know that is so true to you and that affected your life 100% to one decision it really makes you sit back and cherish the moment you know I think that's something that we all did plan that record like man look what we had when we recording music for the world to hear and we taken care of families in you know we're blessed but listen to these were easily this this is what happened this is real life this is it's amazing and since the kid man I always said to myself broke anything is possible and he always comes around ten full hundred percent confirmation and that story is confirmation you can tell that and all all great artists at this you know it's this kind of internal battle with maybe who I was laying like want to be other people want me to be and district with his wife with that I mean I really feel like this is a deeply human album that's what that's the only way I can describe it I did trying to find words describe it and dumb of a simple way that's a really it's a really human experience but since that's very cool definitely [Music] the best word to describe for me it's album about my own self discipline that's my favorite word [Music] this past year discipline you know in obedience you know and how to control your own emotions and how to even speak that truth on a record you know to expose yourself even more to have that closer connection with another human and have them relate to it you know it's not easy telling your truth you know and things that your fear you know for when you're seven seventeen and even a couple years ago you know so but I know at the end of the day that you know the music's not for me it's for somebody else that's going to update to listen to and progress in their lives and that's the reason why I always choose to have that dynamic when I when I approach it you know being selfless in all the situation you're in recording making a lot of music you know that's appeared on this record you show there's a lot of music that didn't appear on this record yeah xxx I have six verses on that theme yeah that's why the changes are so crazy are we talking just a huge amount of music that we've never heard before really places to get to where you need to get to it so yeah cuz now my process at the premeditate not throw all the paint on the wall I can and I pull from it and if people think that there's a resurrection is Easter weekend then it's some things in a town it's a very good enough is it right is not an I I'm still trying to get me to write that and yet over any people are just like the number one killer in it some things in an Allen but it ain't that one but everything it stinks and you know a lot of time people the list of my music they're really good and really really really good yeah I did these awesome you must laugh out loud when it went all right man man I'd be mine belong I'd be blown away were you doing that to us all the time I think I got through thirty percent of what I want to get there was a beautiful pity I appreciate that no I really appreciate the opportunity to sit with you man I know you don't do it often in them you know just you know I hope you got it we go we got enough everybody right now but if not like you say it's on the album right yeah man hi appreciate that

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Length: 45min 50sec (2750 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 27 2017