Pharrell Williams has revealed that he only found time to record his debut LP, In My Mind, between working on other artists’ projects.
Over the last six months, Pharrell managed to create a whole album’s-worth of new songs. The result is the highly anticipated In My Mind, led by the first single, Can I Have It Like That which features Gwen Stefani.
“I was working on Gwen [Stefani’s] album at the time,” he told MTV last week. “When I’m in the studio working on different people’s sessions, in between sessions and before they get there, I work on tracks. That’s how I do my shit. I was working on songs and it was in the middle of a Gwen session. We were working on a song called Breaking Up and she was in the booth. I was like, ‘I have this song that I think is probably going to be my first single.’ She was like, ‘Yeah? I wanna hear it.’ I was like, ‘I want you to be on it.’”
The album also features appearances from Daddy Yankee, Jay-Z, Slim Thug and Pusha T of The Clipse.
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“The one with Slim Thug is called ‘Keep It Playa,’” he said. “It’s a playa record. The one with Jay is called ‘Young Girl’, which is about how most guys just date girls that are younger and we never really talk about it. I was talking about some of the things that come up, some of the issues you go through.”
“’Mamacita’ is a fly mami walking past, and the specific moment when she’s walking past,” he told. “‘Baby’ is an R&B record about the moment when you see somebody across the club and all you can do is stare at each other. … You know you ain’t gonna make it [over to her].”
On one half of the album, Pharrell displays his rhyming skills, on the other half, The Neptunes front man shows off his singing.
Pharrell has just shot the video for Angel, the second single from his debut solo album, which is directed by Hype Williams.
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In My Mind is due out December 12 in Europe, and December 13 in North America.
