Anderson .Paak: 'Ventura' Interview | Apple Music

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[Music] before we even get into the first song on the record how did you even find yourself in the kind of mood to want to make an album that effectively is an instant Vintage Modern Day Soul Anderson pack record um I wasn't even thinking about like that I was just recording music man I was just going through just a creative spurt and I recorded this

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along the same time as Oxnard yeah yeah and we were just recording mad material I mean it was like 3 years since Malibu so uh I just had so much material that I was sitting on and going back and forth from touring and um when we were developing Oxnard I started seeing Ventura kind of take place too so simultaneously I started kind of

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divvying up the songs and being like okay this is going to go here this going go here got it saying and how did you differentiate them personally looking back on it now for yourself what what I mean just a couple of key words about Oxnard versus Ventura were you able to Define them differently because they are different sounding records yeah when I

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was going into it I felt like one was made to be gritty one was made to be pretty you know what I'm saying there it is I was I teed it up I was hoping you give us something like that yeah man you know if you on your way to Vegas one is you could play on your way to Vegas and when you can play on your way back after you do all those horrible things and you

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can reflect on what you've done you move away you end up in Venice let me take a step back through Malibu let me get back to oxide let me wrap it all up V are we done are we done with we're done with the beaches thank God done with the beach sick of this I was yes I'm going to name it something else now I get to do some cool names you get to break out

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yes have you met King James uh yeah LeBron James he was sick yeah he came through is that your LeBron James I can't do it like Sav man I can't do it LeBron James I can't do it man shout out to LeBron man King James yeah I met a couple times man we've been chopping it up yeah yeah we got to get out there does he if with Anderson pack in a big

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way yeah yeah that's the homie man he's a good dude bro I was I was hyped man he posted the song and everything we met actually at Jimmy's party for the first time I think yeah super cool man I was at that party yeah man I saw you there yeah I didn't get to meet King James though LeBron James the next song is called chosen one right yeah come on I

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can see you happy CH one it's a funky too man I like this one it sounds like Atlanta's made a real impression on you I mean it's a music Town incredible Town what is your time like in Atlanta like what what do you get out of it just a lots of of food to make me fat and a lot of beautiful people my mama's out there

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some family is out there and just like I love working at patchwork just for some reason it's just like get get the good energy Uncle tip was over there so it's just like a beautiful thing man wait who was over there TP I love that K yeah man yeah man so it's it's he roll through yeah man he's always man he we came one time and uh shut down like I don't know

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what it is it's like a indoor like golfing like like Indie go-kart spot yeah and one time he he just shut the whole place down and I got to take all my nieces over there and stuff amazing yeah meet him him and his family beautiful fam what's he like on the course is he on the on the race course is he monster he was just you know he

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was closing deals he was on the phone he was just making sure everything was cool you good fam all right man you good yeah he's that's tip he ain't gonna be getting in the go-kart yeah he cool man he's the coolest man another good Mentor always check up on me give me some good info and uh yeah dude chosen one was uh

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it's a good tune man I really like it again free Nationals we sampled uh the homie M DeMarco on this one y and uh even got some of um Sean Price vocals in there it's a cool it's a cool Future Funk tune oh we're at Jet blackstage right now AP nice uh I'm not even going to say who this is featuring because it's such a Flix come on bro it's the

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such a flick you have to say who it is oh my God you kidding Brandy I mean this is like R&B royalty right here yeah the whole albums Al be royalty I mean how do you get Brandy on a song shout out to Taz I hit Taz up I was like Taz ask you I was like yo you think you can get Brandy on this tune I don't hear nobody else on this Hook is that how you do it

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yeah I just don't hear nobody else on this I can't hear nobody and know the song depends on otherwise you're never going to see the light come it's never going to come out you know how we do pack House Radio season tour is happening the touring never ends mm don't end man it never ends tour put the album out got to tour It Tour it you got

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to go sell it go put it out for the people and we got a new show too are we excited about the new show oh man I'm very excited about the new show got the production got the budget I got pyro you know I'm say I got some fire wow say I got the got the big riser for my drums amazing disco ball drum set no way lit bro bro you did it yeah you made it well

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you're in arenas now you got to reach a lot of people got to do something man you got to reach a lot of people take it a step up you know I love you to death bro I really do it's always good to see you man and congrats on everything and you know we're making this a regular thing so until the next time yep this time see you