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What’s the biggest thing you learned while you were out there recording with Chance?
Ivan: If people ask you to make music on the spot for them, I don’t think you’re ever obliged because people understand when you’re not in the right space. I’ll explain why.
So we’re in there for the second day, we roll up and it says, “Reserved for Flying Lotus.” And we’re like, “Holy ****!” He’s wearing the coolest poncho I’ve ever seen in my life. He walks in and plays a couple beats. They were all so fire. Very experimental but pushing the boundaries of hip-hop and live music, exactly what we as musicians and producers lose our **** over.
Conor: It was like looking at the Holy Grail.
Ivan: Chance was feeling the beats but again, he was looking for something very specific for the project and I don’t think any of those things fit the project. I’m sure if Flying Lotus listened to the projects all the way down, he’d see why Chance didn’t take the beats. If I was Chance, I would have taken every single one [laughs]. And Thundercat was clearly all over them, they were just so fire.
So after playing all those beats, Chance is like, “What do we need to do to get you to create something now?” And Flying Lotus was just like, “Man, I’m not making **** right now” [laughs]. He didn’t say it like he was being mean, he just said, “I gotta be in the bunker to make my music.” And it was like, “Oh my God!” I’ve been killing myself in sessions for the past two years trying to make artist’s music on the spot and this was the answer I needed the whole time.
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