There are many who would say that Flying Lotus and Anderson .Paak are two of the most creative artists doing what they do out right now, so it seems only right that the two men (and collaborators) sat down recently to discuss the creative process.
FlyLo interviewed .Paak for Interview Magazine, and it didn’t take long for the two to center in on the discussion of how they make their art.
Speaking on his own writing process, .Paak said “I just write everything down that is inspiring at the moment, because even if it’s just a sentence or a word or a situation that happened, with my writing, I am a fan of wit and clever ways to say simple things. So I feel like a lot of that stuff comes out in conversations.”
“The way that we come in with it. So I have a lot of those in my notes. Like, “This is a dope scenario,” or, “This is a dope phrase.” Then I can bounce from there. I just try to write everything down, man, and sometimes I can get it the first time, but sometimes I go back and move things around and figure out different things.”
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FlyLo had huge praise for his interviewee, referencing .Paak’s appearance on last year’s A Tribe Called Quest album (DX’s #2 album of 2016) and saying “I feel like there was no album that I cared about this year — well, maybe a couple — but there was, like, no album that I cared about that you weren’t on.”
Asked about what he wants to achieve in the future, .Paak left the music to one side and spoke about his young son, saying, “I really see visions of him doing his thing, man. I have dreams of him being older and being something that I could never even fathom because I just catch stuff already and I’m just like, ‘I need to hurry up and get out of the way.'”
.Paak also posted to Instagram this week to say that he’s working on his followup to Malibu in Hawaii, which is expected to drop this year. In the meantime, he’ll be on tour with Bruno Mars and The Free Nationals throughout much of the spring.
The interview can be read in full at Interview Magazine.
