He’s like, “Oh yeah, send this over I’m gonna rap on this right now.” So that was tight. Then, I was working with Pharrell trying to get some beats for the album and he was working with A$AP Ferg at the same time, but then he went home because he got kids. I recorded it as the hook, rapped the first verse, then I actually had to go do my Googles, research a bunch of black historians, black history, moments in time and just like get some real points for the second verse, bring some intel. Then, Jahaan Sweet came through played the beat and I was just kinda freestyling to the beat and I was just like “black, black, black, black.” It sounded so tight. What was the thought process behind creating that one? “Black” is so unapologetically in-your-face. Tunji signed both of us and Tunji was just like, “Oh yeah bloop bloop bloop.” I rapped on it and that was cool. We’re both signed to RCA, so it’s more of like a internal label thing. He kinda just popped in the studio one day and just laid his first and it’s like, “Alright, cool. We’ve been working for awhile, so we’ve already got a bunch of records and he’s super busy. I always just wanted to work with Ty Dolla $ign. They were like, “This gotta go on the album.”Įspecially with Ty Dolla, or any features on the album, is that something you orchestrate or is that something organic? How do you go about being like, “This is who is going on the album?” Brody remade it, and then, I rapped some verses on it and everybody was fucking with it. He actually sent me that hook and it was a whole ‘nother beat. How did “Trippin’,” the record with Khalid, come about? Well, they’ve got they own lives, so they just kind of wanted to know when, what time, so they could call-in and just get everything squared away and be available. What was that process like, asking, “You’re gonna be on my album cover?” I just feel like while they’re still on Earth, like, I just want to show them off to the world. They really inspire me, make me better, and support me and my music, and they’re still alive, you know? There so many people that don’t know their parents or parents die…dead siblings. What was the thought process behind that for the album? Tell me about the cover for Harlan & Alondra?. As an artist, were you like, “I gotta go now?”Ī post shared by Buddy on at 11:27pm PDT People don’t realize that process to make EPs, to make mixtapes, to make albums is a long one when you’re growing as an artist. Were you in a rush? Being signed to Pharrell at first and being next to him, people have that expectation that everything is going to go. I feel like I’m just now learning how to communicate with everyone you know what I mean? I would tell myself to ask more questions and say how I feel. A lot of times where I just like, didn’t know what to do. It was like a lot of stuff I would pull back from or do too much of. I would tell myself just to embrace it all. What would you tell your younger self if you could go back in time?Įmbrace it, you know? Embrace it. Going through a bunch of different managers, finding proper management, getting my business in order and shit like that. Just like learning, curating a sound for myself that is nothing like anybody else’s and still good for everyone. What was that nearly decade-long process like to get to this point? The journey to your album has been a long one - by my estimate, it’s been six or more years since you started getting a lot of blog coverage. In an interview with Billboard, he discusses the six-year journey to his debut album, working with Khalid and Ty Dolla $ign, and his ultimate goal for his debut. I got the opportunity to see Pharrell make N.E.R.D. I watched Nipsey make a bunch of mixtapes and albums. “And I was watching how a bunch of other artists, maneuver through the industry…I watched BJ the Chicago Kid make his album. It was good for me at the time, because I was in a transitional stage, when I was on I Am Other transferring to RCA and trying to figure out a bunch of my management stuff,” Buddy says. “I felt like the energy there was just so hard and independent.
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