Anderson .Paak
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What is discussed at the start of this section?
Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert. I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by Lily Padman. Hello. Boy, long time coming. Begging, sending Instagram, making public Instagram posts.
You're sliding into his DMs.
Exactly. I don't know that I've ever put more effort into getting a guest. And last year, you may recall last year, he was like, I will come on. I was like, oh my God. He's like, when I'm promoting my movie, I'm like, oh my God, when's this movie going to happen? I know. Well, guess what? The movie has happened. It's here. Anderson, Pac, Brandon, Pac, Anderson, Andy, take your pick. I love every version. He is a Grammy award winning rapper. I think he's got eight Grammys at this point. He deserves them. Singer, songwriter and record producer. His albums in his beach theme, Venice, Malibu, Oxnard, Ventura. And he has a new movie out in theaters on February 27th. called K-Pops, and it's him and his real-life son.
I love it. I love it.
And he co-wrote it and directed it, and he stars in it, and it's just a joyous explosion of family love.
Yes. This was a great episode. It was a really good time.
Yeah, I loved it so much. I tried to control myself, and I didn't do a good job, as you'll hear.
Yeah, he can't do that. Don't ask him to do that.
All right, please enjoy Anderson .Paak.
He's an obtuse man
Hold on, what did you just introduce yourself as?
Andy.
I do too. Brandon's gone. Yeah.
We've never fucking with Brandon again.
Long gone.
Where do you live? I live in WeHo and I just got a place in Vegas too. So I'm going back and forth. Are you a Vegas person by nature?
Are you going to adapt?
I can dig it.
How did Anderson .Paak's early life influence his music career?
I kind of.
grew up there my parents were big gamblers so i was there all the time when i was younger and getting the comp rooms and stuff and then i did the vegas residency with bruno so i'm there quite often it's not what was their casino mom and stepdad yeah what did they do caesars they were big caesars palace people classic yeah they treat you nice there yeah yeah yeah for sure i watched you on this podcast revolt yeah what it's called uh i think the point is you had like 13 shots
Oh, yeah, Drink Champs.
It's called Drink Champs.
Yeah, yeah, with Nori.
Drink Champs. Oh, no, we should have provided.
Smoking weed, and I'm like, listen, I don't have that at my disposal, so I'm going to have to intoxicate you with my charm to get the walls down.
I'm drunk off it already. i'm on dry january actually so yeah and i drink like a fish as you can see i could put them down and that particular show i knew that that was their whole thing and they drink and stuff so i was like you know i'm gonna just drink more than anybody in case i say something crazy and i'll be like i was obviously drunk y'all like come on i was blacked out what do you want from me yeah okay so as you know i've been how long i've been courting you yeah long hard press yeah yeah
In the DMs. Comment on your shit. Yeah. Posting videos just declaring my love for you. Yeah. Dancing to one of your songs publicly.
We almost met for lunch one time. We did. And then I looked at the menu.
I was like, I can't eat one fucking thing over there.
It's just a gluten. You should name the restaurant Gluten House. You're like, I'm done. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I can't make it.
I was like, oh shit. Was it one of yours?
No, it was. I had a vegan spot for a little bit. Yeah. Yeah, so no meat and then all gluten. Yeah. Because it was pizza. And that's why I hardly ever went, too. I usually try to do protein and veggie. You were vegan? No, I just, I got a bunch of spots. I tell everybody, I'm not Mexican, but I'll fuck a taco up any time. I have a Japanese spot, and I just opened a supper club. It's like live music. It's called Andy's. Ooh. We got food there, too. Where's that? It's in WeHo, right next to Dantana's. Oh, great. I actually got you guys a gift. You got those gifts? Oh, I love gifts.
I love gifts.
Yeah, come on. I mean, it's customarily we would do this at the end, I think.
There's no reason to not start with gifts. Couple of Andy's hats.
Oh, amazing. Thank you.
Yeah, that's my clip.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
0:00–1:54
2
How did Anderson .Paak's early life influence his music career?
1:54–12:19
3
What impact did Tiny Desk have on Anderson .Paak's career?
12:19–12:46
4
How did Anderson .Paak transition from being a drummer to a frontman?
12:46–1:04:40
5
What was Anderson .Paak's experience with Dr. Dre?
1:04:40–1:05:50
6
How did Anderson .Paak get into directing music videos?
1:05:50–1:07:52
7
What inspired Anderson .Paak's film K-Pops?
1:07:52–1:09:53
8
How does Anderson .Paak feel about his ex-wife and co-parenting?
1:09:53–2:06:38