Steve Lacy talks collaborating on ‘Pride’ from Kendrick Lamar’s new album
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“So we were jamming out. It gets quiet in the studio, everyone’s just quiet on their phones and then I’m like ‘Yo let me play you some stuff.’ I just said it. Shoot my shot. Least he can do is say no. I played him some stuff I was working on. Some stuff from the demo, some songs that didn’t make it, different throwaway beats I had, and a couple days before that I had a session with his friend that’s on a lot of his tracks Ana Wise. We had an acoustic session. 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 so this new version of this Anna Wise track I played for him and this was the track where he 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 it’s track 7 but it’s called ‘Pride’ now. It’s still hitting me now. I still haven’t fully gripped what I just did but yeah it’s crazy to think I was in a classroom just 6 months ago.”
Steve Lacy on how he got to work on Kendrick’s album
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“My good friend DJ Dahi is one of Kendrick’s house producers. We’ve been making music together. We linked up through another friend I’m writing with. I won’t say, it’ll be a surprise. We were making tracks and I had wrote something for the album he was working on one day he calls me and was listening back and he said “yo dude I gotta get you in the studio with Kendrick.” I’m hyped, but I don’t like to dwell and look forward to stuff and it doesn’t happen so I let it go in one ear and out the other. then a month goes by and we wake up on Halloween and pull an all nighter makin beats and going trick or treating he asked me ‘what you doing tomorrow? Kendrick session you gonna roll through?’ and I was playing it cool like ‘yeah dude cool’ and I go to the studio the next day. Kendrick’s there, the whole gang’s there, I get introduced to everybody. When I walk in the room the first thing Kendrick says to me ‘I’ve seen your face in some music videos’ and I was like yeah yours too man and the whole room started cracking up laughing and that just broke the ice. But initially I was just there as Dahi’s lil homey and Dahi’s programming drums live and I’m playing guitar and bass Kendrick’s freestyling, it’s just organic lowjam sessions.”
Steve Lacy on when he started playing guitar
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