You can take elements from there, or realize that you don’t want to go back to the same place. So I think we’ve all learned that sometimes, it’s OK to go back to the blueprint, just to see where you’ve been. He hadn’t heard them records in forever, either. I talked to Kendrick this morning - we learned something from that. What is it like going back through the old stuff? That’s the blueprint of the jazz over the trap energy. Then you hear a record like “Alright,” and that’s the light side. When you listen to “Get Top on the phone”, you hear the dark side. You guys are getting a picture of what we saw first. That’s what I call these the secrets - they were the blueprints of where we were aiming to go. Just hearing these things again has been a huge treat for me. I had forgotten about all this shit, it was just a blur of good music with my brothers. That’s one thing you hear on this record - how much of a brotherhood we did have. We were like Voltron: one thing, one force. That’s how in-sync that whole crew was through TPAB - we started walking alike, talking alike, playing alike, eating alike. Kendrick had to remind me, “No, that’s you playing piano. I guess we were cutting so many records, and Robert Glasper was around cutting records too, that he must have rubbed off on me, because he and I both thought that it was him on that song when the project came out yesterday. On “untitled 05,” I’m playing saxophone, I co-produced it, and I played piano on it. Yeah - all these were recorded before Kamasi and Robert even came into the fold. I’m like, “What you mean?” And was like, “We’re about to drop the secrets, we’re about to drop the blueprints.” I was like, “When?”, and he was like, “Probably in a few months, I don’t know - it’s just an idea.” And I woke up to all these text messages saying, “This is crazy!” So I was like, “What the f- happened?” I look online, and I was like, “These motherf-ers let the secrets out! No! You gave the blueprints to the other guys!” All jokes aside, that’s literally how I found out about it. There was word around the camp like, “Yo, we’re about to drop the secrets.” I always called them the secrets. I had heard something about it Thursday morning. When did you first hear about the project?
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