Dragon Ball celebrates its 40th anniversary, highlighting its influence on pop culture, especially within the rap and hip-hop communities. Producer Mustard reveals how Kendrick Lamar felt inspired by his beats, describing the experience as feeling like 'Goku' during the creation of the track 'tv off' for Lamar's album GNX.
, and it turns out that even Kendrick Lamar said he felt like Goku when helping to craft one of the tracks off his latest album, GNX. Dragon Ball is now celebrating the 40th anniversary of the late Akira Toriyama’s franchise first hitting the pages of Shueisha’smagazine, and it has been the perfect occasion for fans to see just how widespread of an influence Goku and the other Z-Fighters have been over the decades. They really have broken through to pop culture unlike any other.
It turns out Mustard was completely unaware that Lamar was going to shout out his name during the track “tv off,” and it was” when he had heard the beat in “Hey Now,” “I didn’t hear the song until it came out. I had heard ‘Hey Now’ during the ‘Not Like Us’ video shoot; he played me a snippet. I asked him, ‘Man, what made you do that?’ And he said, ‘When I heard the beat, I just felt like Goku or something.
Not only was it the first major anime to really break into the mainstream with fans, but it was also popular in the early days of the Internet. That made it easy for fans of all ages and kinds to celebrate their love of the series, and share their hopes for the future . In fact, the whole shouting “Mustard” during “tv off” became a fun anime meme of its own. Fans had edited the shout together withscenes, and that very primal sensation must have been what Lamar was feeling in the moment all during the creative process of GNX as well.Dragon Ball Introduces Secret Buff to Gohan’s Super Saiyan Form
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