{"id":805490,"date":"2020-03-20T08:18:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T14:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=969661"},"modified":"2020-03-20T08:18:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T14:18:24","slug":"the-first-time-thundercat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/the-first-time-thundercat\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Time: Thundercat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The first time<\/a> Stephen Bruner comfortably called himself \u201cThundercat\u201d was when he met Erykah Badu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was like, \u2018Um my name is Thundercat. Hi,’\u201d he says while laughing on the latest segment of \u201cThe First Time.\u201d Before Thundercat kicked off his solo career in 2011, he played bass for Erykah Badu, Suicidal Tendencies, and Snoop Dogg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was in Snoop\u2019s band for a few years,\u201d Thundercat says. \u201cHe called me to hang out in the room one time, \u2019cause we were talking about music and stuff. I brought up Frank Zappa and I feel like I remember him being like, \u2018What\u2019s that?\u2019 And I think I played him, was it \u2018Saint Alphonzo\u2019s Pancake Breakfast\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n

Before the collaborations, the features, the albums, he wrote his first song with his cousin. During the interview, he remembers his cousin playing the trumpet while he played the bass.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were like, \u2018Yo, we\u2019re producers,’\u201d he recalls. \u201cIt is official, B. Nothing before mattered. It doesn\u2019t matter. We make music, we need business cards.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later in the episode, he recalls falling in love with an album at 10 years old.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was Jaco Pastorius\u2019 self-titled album. And after hearing \u2018Portrait of Tracy,\u2019 I was done. I was like, \u2018Everybody sucks,’\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles native was eventually recruited by Kendrick Lamar<\/a> in 2015 to contribute to his Grammy-winning album To Pimp a Butterfly<\/em>. But, as he explains, the first time he made Lamar laugh is something he will never forget.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the hardest thing to do, to make him laugh. He\u2019s real serious, you know. But I think it was maybe one or two times I got a couple smirks out of him where he was just like, \u2018You\u2019re an idiot,’\u201d he says. \u201cYou can hear it on Untitled, <\/em>where we were sitting there playing the song \u2018Head Is the Answer.\u2019 You can see the smile on his face was genuinely, like, tight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thundercat has recently released a new song titled, \u201cFair Chance\u201d<\/a> featuring Ty Dolla $ign and Lil B, which is a tribute to the late Mac Miller. The track is off his upcoming LP It Is What It Is<\/em>, out April 3rd on Brainfeeder. The album features Steve Lacy, Steve Arrington, Childish Gambino, and comedian\/rapper Zack Fox.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first time Stephen Bruner comfortably called himself \u201cThundercat\u201d was when he met Erykah Badu. \u201cI was like, \u2018Um my name is Thundercat. Hi,’\u201d he says while laughing on the latest segment of \u201cThe First Time.\u201d Before Thundercat kicked off his solo career in 2011, he played bass for Erykah Badu, Suicidal Tendencies, and Snoop […]<\/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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 20:41:57","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}