Kendrick Lamar Talks Music Process, Albums and More with Baby Keem for i-D Magazine

When Kendrick Lamar is in album mode, we don’t hear much from him. Lately, he’s been in the midst of controversy, considering there were reports he left Top Dawg Entertainment.

Though he’s still involved in pgLang, he talked to Baby Keem about it for i-D Magazine.

Kung Fu Kenny also spoke on the album process and why he’s always trying to do something different. According to Dot, he thinks its corny to make the same thing twice, because he wants it to live on its own.

“I can see from the outside in that people think that it’s overnight. I remember when I came out on my first album, people thought it was overnight, but it was years on top of years of doing it. And that dedication counts man, that’s the fire part about it. That’s what will take me so long to do albums (laughs). I spend the whole year just thinking about how I’m gonna execute a new sound, I can’t do the same thing over and over. I need something to get me excited. I see you get frustrated sometimes because you want some new shit.

It’s all about finding that balance. I remember the sophomore jinx of Good Kid M.A.A.D City; it was for that year and for that time. I was in a different space in my life. I already knew off the top I can’t make Good Kid M.A.A.D City Part Two. The second I’m making that, it’s corny bro. That takes the feeling away from the first. I need that muhfucka to live in its own world. Then boom, To Pimp a Butterfly. Some people love it to death, some people hate it.

To Pimp a Butterfly did that for me. I had an idea in my head of how I wanted it to sound, built with jazz and blues and hip-hop. But it was more ‘how am I gonna execute that?’ Do you think you’ll get to a point where you’ll dive into your story more?”

You can read the full interview between K Dot and Keem HERE.

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