Compton rapper reflects on the making of his wildly successful debut for our 2021 Grammy Preview
Looking inward at the mind of a kid on the threshold of superstardom was a major theme on Roddy’s debut LP. Now that he’s made it, he’s had time to sit back and unpack what it all means. “Just imagine if the world was regular right now,” he says. “I’d be on the road. I’d probably be across the country somewhere, not really taking in everything. Being home has allowed me to understand way more.”My uncles used to rap just for fun.
How did a hit song like “The Box” figure into the free-flowing process you’re talking about? How long did it take you to make that one?Thirty minutes, and it was six o’clock in the morning. I was in New York at Jungle Studios. A lot of people record there, and everybody else was asleep. I was up by myself, making this song. It was the last song of the night. I ended up going from 6:30 to 7:00 — I remember, because we left at, like, 7:15.
I created a body of work where I focused on who I was internally, because a lot of people don’t even know who I am. In the future, I plan on getting better at it. The first album was just my first album. I’ve got to remind people of that all the time. Yeah, it was big. I had big songs on there. But that was the first time I ever even did that shit.
You won your first Grammy earlier this year for a song you made with your hero and friend Nipsey Hussle. What was that day like for you?
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