Anderson Paak’s advice on staying true to yourself in a changing world is “hold on to the things that made you”.
Anderson Paak’s latest album Malibu was nominated for a Grammy. He is now signed to Dre’s Aftermath and has become a big name in the hip-hop world. The talented artist admits that Malibu was made “from the dirt” so the question now is how to retain that grit and drive now that his lifestyle has been totally transformed.
“You’re trying to be the same person, but in a new car,” Anderson Paak told Rolling Stone. “Everything we made for Malibu we made from the dirt. We had the bare minimum.”
“Now, it’s trying to keep that same mentality, but when you have everything. When you’ve been eating calamari and lobster when you’ve been going to festivals and playing for 40,000 people. You finally have a tour bus. You have two kids now, and a wife to support. You’re trying to keep the same principles you had when you just had a couch.”
The drummer, rapper, and singer decided to turn to home for the inspiration for his next album Oxnard, named after the Californian city he grew up in. “When you go everywhere, you just hold on to the things that made you,” he says.
You can check out “Bubblin”, Paak’s latest song, below:
