Tame Impala mastermind Kevin Parker has sat down for a brand new interview with Billboard, during which he mentioned his newfound position as collaborator to a few of the greatest names in pop and hip-hop (Kanye, Travis Scott, Rihnna, and so forth). Parker revealed at one level that he did a session with Kendrick Lamar, although he warns followers to not get their hopes up. “We met up for like an hour. We have been type of taking part in one another some stuff. It was earlier than DAMN. got here out,” he stated. “He was engaged on DAMN. I don’t assume something got here of it, essentially. I imply, it wasn’t something big. I fear now that individuals may assume I’ve one thing coming. I don’t essentially assume something is.”
He additionally revealed that Kendrick informed him SZA was the one who put Rihanna onto Tame Impala, which finally resulted in her overlaying their Currents nearer “New Person, Same Old Mistakes” on her album ANTI. Parker defined that whereas he’s by no means really met Rihanna, he initially imagined a “female R&B voice” singing the track when he was writing it: “So when I heard Rihanna singing it, I was like, ’Oh, wow, the song is how I originally imagined it.’”
When requested about if his work with SZA goes to be launched, Parker replied, “No. I don’t know if it ever will, which makes me really sad. It makes me extremely sad.” He went on, “I don’t know, exactly. I don’t want to point fingers at anyone. It never got finished, for starters… So it would need to get finished first, and then everyone would need to agree to put it out.” In July, Parker said in an interview that he couldn’t “really do anything more than hope” that their collaboration could be launched.
As far as his personal music, Parker confirmed that new Tame Impala is on the way in which: “I can’t say too much. But it’s my main focus right now. All I can say is it’s gone back to being my main focus.”
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