After releasing his “i” single last month, it appears Compton, California lyricist Kendrick Lamar may be gearing up to release more new music. Yesterday (October 29), Scott Vener, the music curator of HBO’s television show “Entourage,” took to Twitter to reveal some details about an upcoming Kendrick Lamar record allegedly titled “King Kunta.”
Describing the track, that was heard during an impromptu listening session over the weekend, Vener said it took him “back to ‘90s Hip Hop” and gave him “a tour of the cultural fabric of LA like never before.”
Last month, Lamar said that he is making a point to minimize outside musical influences while working on his forthcoming album.
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“When I go into creating an album or any type of song, I usually cut off everything from the radio because you can easily be influenced from songs that you like, songs that you may not like,” Lamar said at the time. “So I said, ‘I’m gonna go in the studio and I’m going to do what I feel organically without being confined to industry standards or what people assume that I should do,’ because at the end of the day, man, I’m an artist and I would hate to be stagnant.”
Scott Vener’s tweets can be seen below:
This weekend I went to visit Pharrell in the studio and got to hear @kendricklamar new music… — scott vener (@brokemogul) October 30, 2014
I walked into the studio to P and found myself in a room with 12 people listening to P x KDot sketching an idea for a song — scott vener (@brokemogul) October 30, 2014
When they were done. K broke out his lap top and played a song that fucked me up for real — scott vener (@brokemogul) October 30, 2014
This song took me all the way back to 90s hip hop and back and gave me a tour of the cultural fabric of LA like never before — scott vener (@brokemogul) October 30, 2014
During the song, Pharrells engineer whispered to me “Dre had to produce this. This has to be Dre” — scott vener (@brokemogul)
It had these dusty drums with an updated sound — scott vener (@brokemogul) October 30, 2014
hard hitting bass lines — scott vener (@brokemogul) October 30, 2014 This dude @SounwaveTDE has laced you guys with something so special. I am DYING for everyone to hear it. — scott vener (@brokemogul) October 30, 2014 . @kendricklamar x @SounwaveTDE got a new song called “King Kunta” #Compton — scott vener (@brokemogul) October 30, 2014
After @Pharrell heard it. The first thing he said “that song is so unapologetically black and AMAZING” #KingKunta — scott vener (@brokemogul) October 30, 2014
After @Pharrell heard it, he said “those chord changes though. I can’t wait for @QtipTheAbstract to hear this” #KingKunta — scott vener (@brokemogul) October 30, 2014
If we can’t get @kendricklamar a Grammy lets get him an Oscar #KingKunta — scott vener (@brokemogul) October 30, 2014
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