Kendrick Lamar producer DJ Dahi: “I wouldn’t be surprised if we looked at the hard drive and he has thousands of songs”
nme.comKendrick Lamar collaborator who worked extensively on ‘Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers’, has discussed the rapper’s creative process, saying he wouldn’t be shocked if there were thousands of unreleased songs sitting on Lamar’s hard drive.Dahi – who has production credits on ‘Mr.
Morale & the Big Steppers’ cuts ‘Die Hard’, ‘Father Time’, ‘Rich Spirit’, ‘Count Me Out’ and ‘Mirror’, ‘Money Trees’ from ‘good kid, m.A.A.d city’ and several tracks on 2017’s ‘DAMN.’ – commented in a new interview with Rolling Stone about his involvement on the new album.Towards the end of the interview, Rolling Stone‘s Dewayne Gage says it was speculated that Lamar had recorded over 400 songs for ‘Mr.
Morale & the Big Steppers’. To that, Dahi replied that he probably had around 30 songs from him alone.“I mean, he obviously has songs he’ll complete but also a lot of it is an idea, and it’s a really dope idea.
Then we plug that idea in as a hook or a verse line,” the producer – who has also worked with Drake, Big Sean, Ty Dolla $ign, Mac Miller – responded.“With this creative process it’s really just getting those ideas out and then being able to come back and be like, ‘Oh, I can use this or this part of this.’ His process of recording is pretty nuts.
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