When it came to a new Kendrick Lamar track called “Lust,” producer DJ Dahi thought work had been wrapped. After all, he’d heard an early incarnation built around BadBadNotGood, the Canadian jazz-fusion band, and then watched as the track went through change after change over two months. “It’s a little unorthodox in the way it flows and changes,” says Dahi (a.k.a. Dacoury Natche), the L.A. producer whose work was showcased on Lamar’s “Money Trees” in 2012. “When you first hear it, you don’t know why it’s this or that, but it’s really musical. That was the standard – to have the other records have a taste of that.”

You can find more insight into the ideas and inspirations behind Lamar’s new single here.

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