Under de senaste åren har Kendrick Lamar vid flera tillfällen gjort intressanta intervjukoncept med andra artister – bland annat då han i Rolling Stone mötte N.W.A. inför filmpremiären av “Straight Outta Compton”. I en ny intervju med GQ Style lät magasinet Kendrick bli intervjuad av ingen mindre än Def Jam-grundaren Rick Rubin i dennes Shangri La studios i Malibu, Californien. I intervjun berör Kendrick bland mycket annat sin relation till Eminems musik – som nyligen utannonserade sitt nionde album.

“I got my clarity just studying Eminem when I was a kid. How I got in the studio was all just curiosity. I had a love for the music, but it was curiosity. The day I heard The Marshall Mathers LP, I was just like, ‘How does that work? What is he doing? How is he putting his words together like that? What’s the track under that? An ad-lib? What is that?’

Kendrick Lamar lyfte även några av sina inspirationskällor:

“Oh, man. First off would have to be how I was raised. The environment. My father being a complete realist, just in the streets. And my mother being a dreamer. It starts there first, before I even heard any type of melody or lyric. That’s just DNA. It’s always the yin and the yang, the good versus the evil. And that pushed me toward the music that I love to listen to. You know, Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.”

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