Anderson .Paak
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But I really love when,
Um, something has a nice groove, good drum tones, and I really love chords and also like clever lyrics.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oxnard is a beautiful place.
It's a small town.
A lot of people think it's like the valley or it's about an hour north of L.A.
going towards Santa Barbara.
And it's a beach town.
It's a lot of agriculture.
It's a lot of Latinos.
And when I was coming up, it was mostly Latinos, like second generation Latinos and white people.
And I was like the only black kid in my high school.
And my mom ended up there because she... Well, my mom's story is crazy, but...
Long story short, she was an adopted kid during the 50s, during the Korean War.
She was a found kid.
Her and my uncle were found abandoned.
And she was adopted, brought to an orphanage and adopted by black parents who were in the military.
And so she was raised in Compton, California, all around LA up until her 20s.
And she met my dad.