As one of T.D.E.'s top in-house producers, Sounwave has been persistently giving us heat since 2009's Kendrick Lamar EP. Fast forward seven years later, and he has positioned himself as one of hip-hop's top beatsmiths. Sounwave had his hand in most of the tracks on Lamar's critically acclaimed To Pimp A Butterfly, and was tasked with putting together untitled unmastered. is made up of eight unnamed, previously unreleased Lamar songs, the conception of which apparently goes all the way back to 2013. So it's safe to say he and Kendrick have pretty good chemistry. As evidenced by the album and song titles, untitled unmastered. Sounwave, who's somewhat soft-spoken, surprisingly had a lot to say. He thinks people are reaching when it comes to a Drake diss being on "untitled 07" and thinks LeBron deserves most of the credit for the release of these records. At this point in time, Kendrick realized that even with an untitled and unmastered album he can still make one of the best albums of 2016 and maybe even in the Top 100 of Rap Albums of the last decade. How did Swizz Beatz's 5-year-old son get on the album? We also spoke about Swizz Beatz and Alicia Key's son Egypt, the strategy behind releasing this record, and the beginning of the "Alright" video. I remember first seeing that clip Swizz posted on Instagram of his son making a beat and the caption said, "Making a beat for Kendrick." So I'm blown away already that he's five years old making this crazy beat. I sent it to Kendrick like, "Yo, did you see this?" And he was like, "Man, Swizz already sent me all the footage. I told him to send me the beat." That kid is going to be a genius. I've never seen anything like it, five years old playing cords and all this other stuff. We wanted to go all out and he wanted it to feel 100 percent authentic. How much involvement did you have in these particular tracks? I know you were heavily involved in TPAB. To be honest with you, these songs were literally done. The only involvement that we had was me and Ali trying to convince Kendrick that the project has to be mastered. We wanted to go all out and he wanted it to feel authentic 100 percent.
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