It’s been roughly a year and a half since Anderson .Paak dropped an album but he’s finally jumping back in the mix with a new track titled “Bubblin’,” the follow-up to “Til It’s Over.”
The Yes Lawd! artist sat down with Zane Lowe at Beats 1 Radio to chop it up about collaborating with Dr. Dre at Aftermath Records and what “Bubblin'” means to him.
“’Bubblin’’ is just a whole lot of fun,” .Paak explains. “I had the beat from Jhalil Beats and Antman Wonder. Jhalil sent me a pack of beats, you know 50, 60 beats. I loved them all. I was just writing to all these beats and that was one of them that I just loved off top.”
“It sounded like some black 007 action adventure high speed chase type of music. Originally I was trying to get Lil Sims to rap on it first because she was in the studio too. I remember trying to get other people on it, then eventually I just wrote on it. It took me a couple of days. I did it. I started it in L.A. and I finished it in New York. And it was just one of them ones. It gets the energy going, gets the blood going.”
After releasing Yes Lawd! on Stones Throw Records with producer Knxwledge as NxWorries, .Paak made the jump to Aftermath Records after working with Dre for several years. He’s been absorbing as much as he can from the pioneering Hip Hop mogul.
“He’s got a whole lot of trust in me,” he explains. “He let me just run free. He told me just do your thang. I would love to be a part of it. He told me, do I have to be part of it, no, but I really want to be. I was like you’re definitely going to be a part of this, bro. And we’ve just been going back and forth with this music man for over two years now and just getting the right album that we really feel proud of.
“He’s been very instrumental to taking it to the next level. That’s the whole point when you’re working with a really good producer, you let them produce. It’s dope, we got a lot of mutual respect for each other. He’s in there producing beats. He’s in there producing melodies, writing, ideas on sequencing, everything. Just the biggest help just having him as the filter, everything. It’s like whatever we need. Ideas for the videos, all that. We breaking everything down with the big homie.”
Listen to “Bubblin'” below and the entire chat here. [apple_news_ad type=”any”]
Anderson .Paak is an amazing talent, and Dre will do his musicianship justice. Looking forward to this. Time to get the focus away from trap music. Let that trash live way over there; we good right here.
Well said.
hopefully so! Just hope Paak doesnt end up like 80% of Aftermath’s former artists, in musical purgatory, they ask to leave, or get dropped
I think they’re releasing his album
…the interscope marketing machine is in full effect
If dre ask to be apart of my project im sayin of course..if u down u can produce the whole album..not only is it a 1 up but any requests u have dre can pull the strings an make it happen. ill give dre a pass on that compton album jus cuz like em i know here some heat left in the chamber..they jus gotta dig deep ..dre pianos keys an drums will be there its jus the rest of the production has to be on par
Y’all slow on drizzy??? This video is classic. I didn’t know Paak was even savage like this….Bubbling’ Champagne artwork ??Diving into a pool of money and then wearing the named robe and sandals. If u know u know…strait fucking drizzy’s mom in a Marriott is ? level. Yo second verse asking for all the smoke….I mean hot sauce lol and the interlude with the strippers…Aubrey really is a simp ???
Joint was super strong…this video is classic