Terrace Martin Talks About Collaborating With Kendrick Lamar And TDE, Being A Multi-Instrumentalist, The Great Robert Glasper, And Gangbanging Fact Vs. Fiction

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

To call Terrace Martin a musician feels like an understatement. His musical tastes and talents range so widely and his list of collaborators is so vast, it feels like there should be a whole other word for it. This is a man who has worked with everyone from Stevie Wonder to Snoop and Kendrick Lamar to Kamasi Washington. He plays multiple instruments and explores music in a way that feels radical, inventive, and fun. He crosses genres with ease and remixes concepts in a way that always keeps fans guessing. In this deeply thoughtful and seriously impactful conversation, Martin talks to Talib Kweli and Jasmin Leigh about his early days as a producer, his biggest collaborations and musical influences, and his experience growing up in South Central. It’s a true hip-hop conversation, in the sense that all music has a place in hip-hop -- jazz, rock, funk, etc -- and Martin is perhaps the best possible person to unpack that for the listener.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Jasmine Lee, co-host of People's Party with Talib Kuali.
0:04.1	And I'm excited to share this clip from our newest episode with multi-instrumentalist
0:09.1	and producer, Teres Martin. In this snippet, we discussed Teres' incredible work in relationship
0:15.0	with TDE and Kendrick Lamar and how he approached working on to Pimpa Butterfly.
0:20.4	To hear the rest of the conversation in all of our full episodes,
0:23.9	subscribe to the Luminary Channel on Apple Podcasts.
0:27.4	Yes, so you mentioned just now to Pimpa Butterfly.
0:30.7	And that's not the only TDE or Kendrick record you've worked on, but
0:33.8	your fingerprints were heavy on that record.
0:36.8	For free, King Kuntah, these walls, complexion, black of the berry, you ain't got a lot.
0:42.3	You did track five on on title, you did loyalty on damn.
0:45.3	So you are your imprint deep, deep, deep in those Kendrick albums and those Kendrick years.
0:53.3	Tell me what you learned from that era.
0:54.8	Psh. Kendrick is another one of mine.
0:57.9	Everybody I learned from at this part of you talking about was way younger than me.
1:01.6	Kendrick was one of the guys that I remember early, it was like I was a teacher.
1:08.0	And between that, he became a teacher, you know.
1:10.8	You know, and that the butterfly experience, what it was,
1:15.2	Kendrick is the artist and the name, but it was like punch was heavy in that.
1:20.4	Okay.
1:20.7	Well, you know, okay, but I also feel like musically it feels like it was inspired by three chord
1:28.4	fold. Yeah.
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