"He did an exceptional job."ĬeeLo first heard "untitled 06" along with the rest of us on the night of its release, while Muhammad and Younge heard it about a week earlier. Lamar "completed the thought," CeeLo said. But they were unanimous in their praise for the finished results. The date in the Lamar song title, a conceit shared by other tracks on untitled unmastered, is one the producers and guest vocalist couldn't explain. How I felt is arguably the same way Kendrick must have felt when he heard it."Ī mutual friend, Sam Taylor of music publishing company Kobalt, had connected Muhammad and Younge with Lamar, who heard "Question Marks" along with some other demos and "just said, 'I need this, let me have this,'" Younge recalled. Imagine CeeLo calling you and saying, 'Yo, I finished that track,' and I'm like, 'All right, gonna listen to it and hit him back.' When I heard it, I was blown away. Younge confirmed this account, adding: "Honestly, CeeLo wrote that to show Ali and I what he can do. "Question Marks," CeeLo added, was "initially was an incentive" for Younge and Muhammad to move forward on their prospective collaboration with him. Originally titling the song "Question Marks," he wrote and sang his part for the track, which he saw as "a romantic-comedy kind of satire" involving "an eccentric individual, unique and peculiar but intriguing and attractive." The lyrics, he said, were initially "more just like a conversation with a woman." "I got sent 10 or 12 ideas of random, brilliantly produced Adrian and Ali collaborations, but this one spoke to me," CeeLo said. Younge, Muhammad, and CeeLo were in talks about a collaboration, and the production duo sent the singer a number of demos to see what he could do with them.
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Muhammad replied, "'Technova' by Towa Tei."ĬeeLo had known Muhammad for a while, given their deep mutual roots in hip-hop, and became friends with Younge after seeing the producer on an episode of the documentary series Unsung focused on Philly soul group the Delfonics, whose 2013 album Younge oversaw.
What's the bossa nova shit you guys sampled?" But when you said to go upbeat on that, I remember that distinctly and that started a whole new lane for us. For me personally it reminded me of Ali's spirit within Tribe. "I had done bossa nova stuff before, but the kind of bossa nova stuff I was doing was like, really slow, mood shit. "Ali was like, 'Yo, let's go bossa nova.'" Younge told Pitchfork.
"It has a certain kind of flavor to it."įor the bossa nova element, Younge credits Muhammad. "It's all live but everything on that, all the instrumentation, is recorded to analog so it has a vintage patina to it," Younge said. Along with drums and guitar, the arrangement includes Rhodes organ, vibraphone, and bass, all recorded using classic instruments and vintage microphones. The two recorded the song's instrumental to tape at Linear Labs in Los Angeles, working with drummer David Henderson and acoustic guitar player Jack Waterson, both members of Younge's Venice Dawn band.
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