How Mustard’s Dedication Led To Kendrick Lamar Collaboration

Mustard has revealed he was basically spamming Kendrick Lamar with beats a number of instances a day even earlier than his historic rap beef with Drake commenced.

Throughout his latest look on “Huge Boy’s Neighborhood,” the “Not Like Us” producer spoke about his expertise acting at Lamar’s unifying Juneteenth live performance “The Pop-Out: Ken & Mates,” the rap beef between Ok. Dot and Drizzy and extra. Within the course of, Mustard described how years of persistence led to the collab with Kendrick, who managed to snag a No. 1 debut with their inaugural collaboration.

“I used to be sending him 5 beats a day earlier than the entire beef,” he mentioned. “I used to be simply engaged on my album like I actually wanna do a track with [Kendrick]…I’ve been attempting to do songs with him for years.”

When Huge Boy responded with the query, “What number of beats you suppose you despatched to Kendrick?,” Mustard replied, “Perhaps 100? Perhaps 50? 60?” and proceeded to verify he was particularly making 5 beats a day for no person else however Kendrick Lamar on the time.

“Any of the beats I’ve ever despatched him no person has ever had these beats,” he mentioned.

Mustard added that he had no challenge blowing Kendrick Lamar up with beats as a result of he believes that “it solely takes one.” Mustard went on to disclose that he initially heard “Not Like Us” similar to the remainder of us did and didn’t even have a heads up earlier than the monitor was launched.

“[During the beef], all I’m texting him is beats…regular s###,” he mentioned. “We weren’t speaking concerning the beef in any respect.

“[When ‘Not Like Us’ dropped], I’m on my technique to a child bathe…we on the freeway…I get a textual content saying, ‘[Kendrick] dropped once more,’ then I get one other textual content like, ‘Mustard on the beat ho’ and I’m like, ‘What the f### did I miss?’ And that’s how I heard the track on the 405 freeway, driving and I begin spazzing…listening to it time and again. I couldn’t consider it.”

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