Kendrick Lamar has hit the cover of the most recent edition of GQ. In the adjoining interview Lamar opens up with none other than legendary rap and rock producer Rick Rubin. The pair touched on a range of topics including the follow-up To Pimp a Butterfly and how he keeps his head together.
"That was me then . . . Not to say that it wouldn't be continuous. It'll always have some type of DNA in my music. But me, as a person, I grow. I'm like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box. And my ability to express and still make the connection wherever I go, that is my high point. That's something I pride myself off of."
He adds, "I have to have at least 30 minutes to myself. If it's not on the daily, every other day, to just sit back, close my eyes, and absorb what's going on. You know, the space that I'm in. When you in music-and everybody knows this—the years are always cut in half, because you always have something to do. We in the studio for four months, that go by. Now you gotta go on the road for five months, that go by. Next thing you know, five years going by and you 29 years old. You know? So I have to find a way to understand the space that I'm in and how I'm feeling at the moment."
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