Anderson .Paak

It was like on six tracks.

They always call me Six Track Pack.

And then he had a movie straight out of Compton.

And he did the beats deal.

Dre was popping and so I was like wow and um I was like well shoot guess I should put out something now and um it was cool because he was so busy doing his thing that he didn't sign me right away so I got I was working on an album called Malibu and I had it like halfway done but now like people were looking so I was like hitting up producers that are

You know, this album was like my dream album that I had been holding on to these songs for a while.

And I didn't want to, I was like, when this comes out, I want people to be able to hear it.

And now like I had a lot of like leverage and people were, had a lot of eyes on me.

So I was hitting up people like Knife Wonder and Madlib and Hitech.

And these people were helping me complete the album now.

And I was getting these features and

Dre was still doing his thing so I got to put it out independently and you know now I own the masters that was probably the best thing that happened it was like how fortuitous that he was too busy yeah and I was trying to you know trying to break our necks trying to everyone was knocking down my door now trying to sign me before I couldn't buy a deal and everyone's like yeah we want to sign you now and I was like

If I do sign anything, I'm going to sign a Dre whenever it comes back around.

And I was on tour after that for years.

I didn't see.

How did you finance your tour?

So it was a lot of things that happened.

We started very... After Malibu came out, it started circulating.

And I got a Grammy nom for Best New Artist and different things like that.

And people were seeing that, oh, he's not like just a rapper.