{"id":490888,"date":"2019-10-04T07:10:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T13:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=894805"},"modified":"2019-10-04T07:10:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T13:10:24","slug":"smokey-robinson-joined-anderson-paak-on-make-it-better-on-kimmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/smokey-robinson-joined-anderson-paak-on-make-it-better-on-kimmel\/","title":{"rendered":"Smokey Robinson Joined Anderson .Paak on \u2018Make It Better\u2019 on \u2018Kimmel\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-04-at-5.42.31-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Anderson .Paak recruited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/smokey-robinson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_smokey-robinson\" data-tag=\"smokey-robinson\">Smokey Robinson<\/a> to join him for a performance of \u201cMake It Better\u201d Thursday on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jimmy-kimmel-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jimmy-kimmel-live\" data-tag=\"jimmy-kimmel-live\">Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Oxnard-born rapper opened the song alone at the microphone alongside his backing band, running through the first verse and chorus before the soul legend walked onstage following a quick introduction by .Paak; Robinson also features on the studio version of \u201cMake It Better,\u201d a standout from .Paak\u2019s Motown-inspired 2019 LP <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-anderson-paaks-ventura-is-ambitious-wide-ranging-hip-hop-soul-821350\/\">Ventura<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The two vocalists then carried the performance the rest of the way, singing both in unison and counterpoint to each other. \u201cI wanna go to Roscoe\u2019s with you baby,\u201d .Paak sang, with Robinson delivering the closing lyric, \u201cChicken and waffles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>.Paak released <em>Ventura<\/em> \u2014 the quick follow-up to 2018\u2019s <em>Oxnard<\/em> \u2014 in April. In addition to Robinson, the Dr. Dre-executive produced album also featured guests like Andre 3000, Brandy, Jazmine Sullivan and a posthumous contribution from Nate Dogg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrowing up in Oxnard gave me the grit and the church to find this voice of mine. One town over, I went further and found my depth,\u201d .Paak previously said of the album in a statement. \u201cThe duality of each place inspired me greatly and from that I made two albums at the exact same time, but held one back because that would have been too many songs to perform live for you all! I like ending things on an even number, so welcome to <em>Ventura<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/anderson-paak-smokey-robinson-make-it-better-kimmel-894805\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anderson .Paak recruited Smokey Robinson to join him for a performance of \u201cMake It Better\u201d Thursday on Jimmy Kimmel Live. The Oxnard-born rapper opened the song alone at the microphone alongside his backing band, running through the first verse and chorus before the soul legend walked onstage following a quick introduction by .Paak; Robinson also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-21 20:19:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}