Anderson .Paak

Learn these beats.

And so I was just doing that every day at the house after school.

And then my god sister came by and she said, oh, you're playing drums?

You need to come to church with me.

And she took me to church.

And it was the black gospel church.

And there wasn't very many black people in the city of Oxnard where I'm from.

But they were all there at the church.

Yeah, yes.

And that's where I really learned how to play.

It was the best musicians in the world coming through and playing behind a choir, playing behind, you know, organists and choir directors.

I'm a church kid.

So I grew up playing drums all the way till I was, you know, about 30 years old when I, you know, I couldn't really do it anymore because I was traveling a lot.

But since I was little, I was picking up on grooves and I was really into dancing.

Like I wanted to be like, I was, grew up in front of TV.

My mom was always working and my sisters pretty much raised me in, you know, in front of the TV.

So I grew up watching like BET, MTV and music videos and stuff.

So I would want to learn every new dance that came about.

And, you know, now when I listen to music, it's tough because like I produce, I write and everything.

So it's tough to kind of like turn that off and just like, just enjoy a song sometimes.