Kendrick Lamar – DAMN. (King Mason Remixes) [Mixtape]

“I’ve always been a fan of Kendrick Lamar. He seems like a youngin’ that gets it. Just to give a little breakdown on this project, King Mason and I were just wrapping up a Sam Trump project and working on a movie score. Sam is currently on tour with Sidewalk Chalk, and we had a little time to mess around with some music. As far as the new album from Kendrick, we both were hoping that he would expand on the sound from “To Pimp a Butterfly”. To begin, he had top flight musicians and vocalists on this project, and he proved that you didn’t have to create a “Trap Album” to have critical acclaim as well as commercial success in a modern-day release. However, when we heard the minimalist approach for the “Damn” project, it caught us off-guard. In the case of King Mason, I met him through Kashmere Don while I was working on the Mvula Project with Luke. I wanted to work with a local bass player and I heard he was the guy. I saw where he was listed in the credits as a session musician for “The Hue”, but when I went to visit him at his spot, I got to hear his personal work and it was great. He wanted the opportunity to be recognized as a producer and not just a session musician, so we decided to collaborate on the Ashby Project and we feel we created a great project. One great thing

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