Ryan Lewis, who released the Grammy Award-winning album The Heist in 2012 with Macklemore, says the duo is set to embark on its next phase.
“Obviously going into the studio and doing another full length album together is the immediate [step],” Lewis says in an interview with Prologue. “In the long term, I would love to make another album that is really receptive to people. I would love to make another album that is culturally relevant. I would love to be one of the few artists that hits a point of success and can go back into the studio and make another album that matters and relates to people and not go back in and be super tainted by this whole thing. That would be the immediate goal.”
Lewis has another goal, as well. The producer says he hopes to one day work with Rick Rubin.
“Rick Rubin is just in his own fucking world,” Lewis says. “Rick Rubin is super intriguing to me because he has become this god producer in completely drastically different genres, which very few people have done.”
In 2013, Lewis discussed his work with Macklemore in an interview with HipHopDX. “What was cool about The Heist was that it was a unique process for a lot of reasons,” Lewis said at the time. “We spent three years on it. That in and of itself is unusual, particularly for the Hip Hop genre because people are just cranking out records. We spent a long time on all those songs. And I think you’re spot on. It was a record that had so much collaboration involved from the amount of features that were doing hooks and the vocals on there to the variety of instruments…there’s just textures from all over the place. I think spending that much time on a record enabled me to pursue a wide variety of ideas.”
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lol, take a good look at these 2 nerds, that’s where hip hop is headed.
2 fag’s
But the question is would you say that in real life?
you know damn well these internet trolls don’t have a real life
hiphop is full of fags
Get a life and learn to be respectful
i saw wayne kiss baby too
Great interview. I think I’ll keep pursuing my music dreams. I just have to be humble and work hard.
Macklemore is a dope mc I love the album and can’t wait for the next album to drop it will be interesting to see if they can top the heist
Nice to see white producers bigging up each other.
It’s not about white or black or yellow. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are the wack, annoying and corny
i might say the same about your fav rappers
hello I am new to hip hop my friend suggested i should get interested in it so i came to this website and i have to say i am really disappointed that this badass art form was hyped up just to be two faggots singing about homo talk? no thanks i’ll stick to my regular badass non-hip-hop songs.
Can someone explain how Macklemore is not hip-hop? He crafts some pretty conscious songs with decent rhyme structure and a dope flow. He touches on controversial subjects and has some great instrumentals. All those concepts can be placed on New York hip-hop in the 80’s. Because he’s white and talks about homosexuality he’s not a rapper? Yal do realize Public Enemy talked about subjects that were pretty controversial as did NWA, KRS-One and many others. Or maybe you guys don’t know hip-hop before the 2000’s idk
Man Fuck these faggots disgracing an art form, promoting a gay Nwo agenda n shit. N yes before you ask I would say this to their face and then proceed to stab them