Grammy-winning jazz musician Robert Glasper knows a thing or two about jamming with Kendrick Lamar ... and he says his schedule will miraculously be free should he get the call to join him on that Super Bowl 59 halftime stage!!!
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00:00You have many songs with Kendrick Lamar.
00:05Yeah, I'm on like 8 or 9 songs with Pimple Butterfly.
00:08So I wonder, everyone that's collaborated with him, now that the Super Bowl thing was announced,
00:15are you checking that phone every once in a while?
00:19Like, hold up now, let me double check for that text.
00:23You never know, you know what I'm saying?
00:27I got a lot of friends that are connected to Terrence Martin.
00:30You never know, I might get a call like,
00:32Yo Rob, Kendrick Lamar is going to play on these walls guitar.
00:35That I did on the record.
00:37I doubt if I get that call, but if I did get that call,
00:40you're damn right I'm going.
00:41He's going to do that, not like us.
00:43He's going to do that, obviously.
00:45He's got to do alright.
00:46He has to do alright.
00:48Those are anthems.
00:49Those two songs are now, they're like black history songs.
00:52You know what I'm saying?
00:53They're like the new black national anthems.
00:55You know what I mean?
00:56So he's got to do that and got to do that for sure.
00:58And then in the middle, he's got to keep the party going at that point.
01:01You know what I'm saying?
01:02In the middle, keep the party going.
01:04But I think those two songs, they have to be in there for sure.
01:09Now, you're an instrumentalist all the way.
01:14People devise house bands for these things.
01:18I feel like sometimes they just play backtracks.
01:21Kendrick's a musical guy.
01:23Exactly.
01:24Kendrick's a musical guy.
01:25He loves real music.
01:26He loves band.
01:27He loves to feel the band.
01:29So I feel like it might be a mixture of both things.
01:33It might be some tracking stuff but also some band up there doing some things.
01:37A mixture of both.
01:38They're not like us.
01:39Yeah.
01:40Do you heavily redact lyrics because of the platform?
01:47Obviously, it's not going to be curse words and all.
01:50But the content of that song is so scathing towards Drake.
01:55Of course.
01:56Do you feel that he would feel some type of pressure to be like,
02:01I'm going to have to re-jig these verses in some way.
02:04Either he's doing it or he's not doing it.
02:06I don't think he'll re-write verses.
02:09Or he might just chant the chorus.
02:13Everybody knows the verses.
02:14Yeah.
02:15He might just chant the chorus.
02:16They're not like us.
02:17It might just be the mantra.
02:18You know what I'm saying?
02:19There's ways to get around it without having to go in and dissect it and change it.
02:22Right, right, right.
02:23He could use the musicality of it in some way.
02:26Whatever he's going to do, it's going to be fucking genius.