GRAMMYs 2024: 6LACK

Rolling Stone

6LACK talks with Rolling Stone’s Delisa Shannon at the 2024 GRAMMYs.

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00:00 One thing I really appreciate about you, Black, is your earnestness and shout out to Six,

00:04 that honesty that you're talking about.

00:06 And I know you just mentioned about learning guitar, picking up instruments for music,

00:11 but what about life have you picked up along the way?

00:13 I feel like that is something that I need to hear, I know a lot of us need to hear,

00:17 and I think you are the perfect person to give us a message in that.

00:20 I would say that anything that I thought I was earlier in my life was just like whatever

00:25 I created for that moment.

00:26 So even if it was I'm too shy or I don't talk that much or I don't greet people, it's

00:32 like all these different things that I put on myself I had to reset and just remind myself

00:37 that I'm brand new as much as I want to be brand new.

00:40 And that's the biggest thing.

00:42 That's the biggest thing.

00:43 Okay, I'm going to take a little word from that.

00:45 And if I remember correctly, you're heading to Europe?

00:48 Yes.

00:49 At the end of this month or like the end of this week?

00:51 About three days.

00:52 I was about to say, I was like, February 9th is actually so close.

00:56 I'll start flying on the 7th.

00:57 Okay, so what are we excited about for this next leg of the story?

01:02 I'm honestly excited to continue to work.

01:04 It's been cool to have a show where people are leaving feeling like fulfilled and happy.

01:09 And I think that is the biggest and best takeaway of any tour that I've had so far is just giving

01:14 people a feeling that I'm still working, you know, towards like achieving every single

01:18 day.

01:19 And do you create while you're on the road or is it just just performance?

01:22 Yeah, normally we create unless the schedule is too tight.

01:24 We try to bring studio equipment all the time because you never know.

01:27 So in those moments, is it something that you pick up on the like, you see something

01:31 and you're like, I want to do this or it's a feeling and you're like, I got to bring

01:35 this down.

01:36 Is that how quickly and how like?

01:37 Yeah, it's normally a feeling like it could be driving by something and a random, you

01:41 know, line pop up in your head, you could see something that inspires you.

01:43 I always got my notes app on handy.

01:45 I got my voice memo app on handy.

01:47 So normally it's spurred a moment, whatever I feel.

01:50 And then when I get in the studio, like I said, it's a lot of just sitting down and

01:53 thinking and whatever comes to spirit is what comes up.

01:56 I would love to take a peek into your notes app because I know that shit is crazy.

02:01 It's a lot in there.

02:02 It's a lot.

02:03 I bet it is.

02:04 I bet it is.

02:05 So if we look at what you would hope for your 2024, what's a song lyric that you think would

02:10 describe what you want this year to look like for you?

02:13 Off the top of my head, since I have a lover, no more lonely nights.

02:16 And I would take that and make it mean more than just something romantic.

02:19 I would just say, you know, creating friendships and relationships and community has brought

02:26 me to a place where I don't have to feel like it's just me against the world all by myself

02:29 and nobody else can help me.

02:30 It's like building a world where I can look to my left and look to my right and know that

02:34 like I'm bringing my people with me.

02:36 I love that.

02:37 And I'm taking that from you because we all need a little bit of that.

02:41 Thank you.

02:42 I appreciate it.

02:42 (whooshing)

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