KAYTRANADA: ‘BUBBA’ Interview | Apple Music

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great to see thanks for taking the time I mean you just finished out and literally mastered it in the last 24 hours right and a lot of these songs I was like I've removed from the original tracklist I don't know maybe I was trying to like do a continuation of like the last one you know 99.9% like I had say to Henderson back collaborations

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like that I thought it was gonna be happen again and I kind of understood like just with time why not do something different did you actually get tracks with some of those people done or was it just a case of like no schedule all the time not work group remotely so Ilana of like tracks were made by sending beats

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maybe like five different batch listed it's the same artisan or maybe it's like um I use that in my all woman it's like oh okay yeah pretty so makes a producer album with a lot of guests it's like so it sounds more difficult do you ever think about putting out an instrumental project just cuz of course eventually

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likes very very soon gonna hear instrumental projects this is one the best that I know you've got like you're pretty settled out in Montreal now yeah I mean how would you describe just the overall vibe of your actual HQ where you'd well it's pretty much my home and I have a room where I just make beats

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it's like really in my laptop in my controller yeah and my headphones and that's it do you work well working remotely do you like making music when you travel oh no cuz like music when I travel does not make me focus enough so just create something new and then if I forced myself to make beats like while

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traveling I will never be happy with with the result so the album's called Bubba okay Wade that come from over cush you're a smoker I'm a smoker I don't know what white Bubba was like was like to think that stuck to me maybe like the creative process while I was smoking that strain that one strain and that one

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week I was like oh Sh okay this is so cool name I guess it's kind of catchy what is it about golden link that you really enjoy because again the song that you've done with him right which is called um fix up just a fact that somebody could write so beat like so effortlessly it's just like it's my

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homey as well so it's like why not and I've been asking him for the verse for awhile and I understand that maybe cuz my beats are like it's like a challenge for them maybe or maybe it's just like they love to beat but they couldn't really find anything to run on it I know I'll just beat it's just so nice itself I'm gonna win I said

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you think you're overconfident site with their instrumentals you see I'm like dad did too much weed like there's sewage so many stuff like I should keep it minimal ship down a little bit how important is it to you that you should have some kind of personal connection with the collaborators

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ideally rather than it just being about talent sometimes I don't see it that way because me it's like remotely I don't see their with their working process I don't see that you prefer it that way than being in a prefer that we honestly most people I talk to they love to be in the room divided and to create something

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face to face is here and see the in situation was it worse that's the thing that's what's happening like today in industry now it's more of like being present and being this to your session and me it's not that I hate it but sometimes it depends with the collaborator you're a private guy huh yeah super I don't know why I am like

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that not always been that way even as a kid only and I'm just quiet you know some song is just I'm just minding my own business and my own head and some people just don't like that at all you were young when you moved to Montreal but obviously you know your family comes from Haiti of a Haitian

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Haitian family history and how was that experience growing up when I was young like my dad used to play music and the Fugees came out at around that time so Wyclef yeah Haitian pride everybody was like yeah like we're so proud of Wycliffe and the Fugees in well I did some work with quite clear that world

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having maybe come out very only five he was unreleased compilation cuz it was for the session was within this year for this album just like grabbing his guitar and played like his hits it's like damn he's just like doing it in front of me and it's like I could not stop thinking about my parents like just the fact that

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I had Wyclef meant something much deeper what else blew your mind like what are the moments have you been in like the white cliff line where's just whose only album right now oh yeah thank you well it's just growing up knowing how far was gonna be and then he's actually what I thought he was gonna be for us

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always putting like like he told me like in a session he said just put me to your world put me into kitchen artists world remember I'm a chameleon I'm just a camellia here so it's like that's why c4 I was like one of the best collaborators like it just gets it through the music I'm on a my amount of Maori yeah I felt

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like you know you really found your vibe with the keys this time on this album he really found your scale I just sent a beat so mono Mario he just sent back vocals and it was like you might as well sing like this that's a singer for her dish the taste speed from vengers that was the original beat how many other

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songs I mean you've been working like you say solidly for over two years so how much music didn't make it into the final tracklisting of Bubba like a whole album another the whole album yeah there's just so many tracks that just didn't make it even like his still tracks left after that okay so will then

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either see the light of day I mean who's the desire to finish these things released these things it was just a case of what would made the context of this one project yeah cuz it's like I intended to put out in two parts okay and definitely gonna do like something kind of different on the next one

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there's a lot of like rappers who did you work with this on the next one who didn't like who didn't make this particular car what are you sitting on like I have like this song with Henderson pack that didn't make that album it has like this sample I have to clear and it's like it just sucks man sampling is like my sound like my main

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sound anything you know what I mean with the people that you collaborated with that might come as a surprise to people I'm a phenyl rad boy and it was like something completely different that's cool we did like four joints you know so yeah I think for his project it would be like really dope you know hmm ah the

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cornerstone inspirations behind you making music and winds be Kate Renata in the first place I think mad lips to me is like a god and the beats the main inspiration like I grew up studying his music like hey man JD just found the most obscure records like it kind of influenced me with the mixing as well

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because like the charms are like the mains just like snap I just love like when a snare pops and wearing like a cake is the soos too strong but it's not good you know I gotta I gotta be careful sometimes like it's good to lower the volume go DJ featuring sir that's that Detroit tiller thing going on I was listening to a lot of Billy's

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beat tapes it was like okay a nice sample in a nice drum that is like broken beak we actually was in the studio / - shangri-la together and wow that's cool it just was natural as hell the next one though I think it has make Jenkins on it me and make is like one of the people I work with the most a thing there's a lot

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of stuff we've been making insight it's pretty dope and I feel like one day we should like poppy and you know we've been talking about this a just me and him it's like this you know it's most really cool about this album is it's just cemented your taste in collaborators these are people that

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ultimately exist in the Fringe in a good way does it inspire the idea of working with big names definitely cuz like I grew up like sing Pharrell doing that with Justin and doing that with Brittany and but the thing is like I'm not trying to but like there's somebody like reach out to me and be like yeah like I want

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to be under did that got me down you know so who's the dream now you work with Pharrell who's a huge influence who's someone you would love to collaborate with in the future maybe something with Stevie I don't see Wanda maybe I don't think a lot ever happening cuz he like he's like Never Say Never

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man I want to talk about um chamber sanity Kelly she saw and what I like about that is it's a slight icon business - what's your relationship being like with business you smart with it I just make my music and I just hope like it works like I'm not really like trying to make money I'm more into the art first but you don't want to get

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ripped off I don't want to what do you drift off so now she jumps out my favorite song and you was saying yours as well right now yes I was interested to work with her cuz it's like she has a really pop voice you know and it just kind of makes me see how I would sound like in the pop world that beat was

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playing she just did like like her runs like that she does on the actual song she just wrote 30 minutes later recorded exactly once a free fall working with Saran Bernard and he's just like got the strong powerful voice it doesn't really sound like the rest of the album but it still has that dancy up-tempo thing let's talk about

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the touring and let's talk about because this is such a live album I can't even tell I can't even handle it I mean it's just so designed for you to play out going on so with this album will be like satisfying cuz like that's what I was aiming on and just making more dance songs really the follow-up to this

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there's a desire to put it out sooner rather than later the next one is just what didn't make the album and other instrumentals in between so that's gonna be a more personal one and I think I'm gonna drop it like just in a couple months over just in a couple months I'm not gonna make it that long alright oh wait keep it moving yeah you