Kendrick Lamar gives an interview to Zane Lowe on Beats 1.
Kendrick Lamar’s new album DAMN. is out now and it’s on course for highest album sales opening week debut of 2017. This past week he sat down with Beats 1’s Zane Lowe for an exclusive interview.
For his first significant video and long-form interview since the release of his latest album, DAMN, Kendrick Lamar opens up on a number of topics. Kendrick talks on collaborating with Rihanna, his creative process, Donald Trump, meeting Barack Obama, and more in an exclusive Beats 1 interview with Zane Lowe. The entire debate takes place across 45 minutes, giving fans and listeners something to chew on. From the now-viral tale between Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith and Kendrick Lamar’s father to his Coachella performance, K-Dot leaves nothing out of his chat with Lowe.
K.Dot talks on making of the project, why execution of the ideas in your head is so important, being inspired by legends like Jay-Z, Eminem and Tupac, how much he loves Hip-Hop, the importance of songs like ‘Alright’, the crazy story on ‘DUCKWORTH’ and much more.
“Definitely, a whole lot of influence. My boy Dave will tell you I was in his garage and you all my ad-libs sounded like JAY Z. My words, my flow. Him, Eminem, and I grew up off Pac, being from Compton. But Jay-Z, I wanted to have the conversational type of word play and aspect of things. Whether I’m engaging in a story or I’m just having fun, it just felt like he was natural and he was fluent with it. I didn’t that too. It all worked for me years down the line when I can go in and just do the craziest verse just off all emotion and off my own experiences, where I don’t feel like I need to actually put the thoughts down on paper. At first I was doing it because I just wanted to be like JAY Z. Timing became a became a practice and by the time I got back to writing my rhymes I knew the full potential in that, I knew the creative process in that, what worked and I also knew how to go in there and just spill out my feelings and show how I really feel.”
Watch the full interview below.
