DJ Mustard On Working With Kendrick On “Not Like Us” & Its Impact | Billboard News - video Dailymotion

DJ Mustard shares what it was like to work with Kendrick Lamar on “Not Like Us” and it’s cultural impact. Stay tuned for the full interview!

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00:00you see people like Kendrick, you're just like,

00:01man, I wanna get a song with Kendrick.

00:03I got into a place where I was just like,

00:04you know what, I'ma just send five beats a day.

00:07He never responded until like 12 at night.

00:09I was like, this is fire.

00:10Wow.

00:11I didn't know what that,

00:11I mean, he had said that about a couple of other beats,

00:13but I was just like, okay, all right, cool.

00:14And what do you think about the cultural impact as well?

00:16Because, you know, obviously with the lyrics

00:18talking about colonizers and they not like us,

00:20I mean, the people singing at the club, at the barbecues,

00:22I mean, it's everywhere.

00:23I'm like, shocked myself, you know,

00:26when I look and I'm seeing this,

00:28it's just like, how big that song is.

00:30I don't think I even understood how big it was

00:32until it was like number one.

00:33And I was like, this is the biggest song

00:34I ever had in my life.

00:35Well, I was more just happy to have a song with Kendrick.

00:36I was just like, listen.

00:37He just wanted the Kendrick track.

00:39He didn't expect the number one and all this.

00:41You come from California, you from here.

00:43I'm born and raised in Los Angeles.

00:44Compton is right up the street.

00:45It's not far.

00:46And then let's talk about like West Coast Legends,

00:48you and Kendrick in Juneteenth.

00:51Like this show at the Forum, man, that's gonna be crazy.

00:54It's like, I'm in my backyard.

00:55This is like gonna be a cakewalk.

00:57It's gonna be like one of them things

01:00that feels like, wow, like finally,

01:03at the height of my career,

01:04at the height of, you know, this success with the song,

01:07and you get to do it at the Staples Center, at the Forum.

01:09It's like in between Compton and Los Angeles.

01:13I don't even know how to describe it.