Over the past decade, DJ Dahi has established himself as one of Kendrick Lamar’s most trusted producers.
Five years after creating the beat for one of the standout songs on Kendrick’s 2012 debut album good kid, maAd city (“Money Trees”), Dahi and Lamar teamed up on rapper Compton’s 2017 album DAMN, which included five tracks produced by Dahi (“Yah”, “Loyalty”, “Lust”, “XXX”, and “God”).
Once again, DJ Dahi is credited with producing five songs from Kendrick’s latest full-length offering. Mr. Morale and Big Stepsincluding highlights from the album like “Rich Spirit” and “Count Me Out”.
In a new interview with rolling stoneDahi opened up about the five-year creative process behind the album, revealing that Kendrick’s hard drive is filled with countless songs that weren’t on the final LP tracklist.
“I can tell you, for sure, he probably has about 30 songs from me,” Dahi explained. “I mean, he obviously has songs that he will finish, but also a lot of them are an idea, and it’s a really great idea. Then we plug in that idea as a hook or a line of verse. With this creative process, it’s really about getting these ideas out and then being able to come back and be like, “Oh, I can use this or this part of that.”
Dahi went on to tease the possibility that Kendrick has “thousands” of unreleased songs on his hard drive. “His recording process is pretty crazy,” he explained. “So I wouldn’t be surprised if we looked at the hard drive and it had thousands of songs.”
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