When Kendrick Lamar dropped the title, cover art and tracklist for his upcoming DAMN. album, it’s fair to say that a few people were surprised by the featured artists — and not just because of who was there (U2, in case you hadn’t heard), but because of who wasn’t there.
That is to say, compared to To Pimp A Butterfly, DAMN. looks pretty thin on features — or at least it did, until we learned that some artists would be appearing on the album who don’t feature on the back cover.
Montreal beatmaker Kaytranada, who was DX’s 2016 Producer of the Year, revealed in a since-deleted tweet that he’d be providing additional vocals to the record.
“Nigga im singing autotune for the first time in a Kendrick Lamar record hahahaaaaaaaaaas,” he wrote in the tweet.
Another tweet from Toronto instrumental outfit BADBADNOTGOOD shows that he’s not the only extra artist that will be appearing on the song — called “LUST.”
As for what the track might sound like, Kaytranada revealed that his vocals on the track are auto-tuned, but that’s pretty much all he said on the matter.
Zacari has also since revealed that he’s on the song “LOVE.” meaning there might be a few more things about this album K.Dot has yet to reveal.
DAMN. is set to drop this Friday (April 14), so expect any mysteries around other features to be cleared up soon.
Can’t wait to see someone in here calling Kendrick a saviour for reviving auto-tune.
Kdot been using autotune since good kid though. Matter of fact almost every rapper of today has used autotune in atleast one of their songs on their recent projects
Everybody uses auto tune.
That’s the point. Kendrick Lamar is not everybody.
You mean Kaytranda’s gonna be the savior of
auto-tune?
JAY NEEDS TO DO ANOTHER D.O.A. AND GET RID OF THIS AUTOTUNE SHIT ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!!
it didn’t work the first time so what the fuck is the point? get over it, it’s a vocal effect. you don’t have to listen to songs with auto tune on them if you are honestly that lame
Yes it did work the first time, broke Nas stan. You’re just slow in the head. It wasn’t until a few years later when Future blew up that people started using it again.
and steve lacy i think either produced or plays guitar on pride