Kendrick Lamar Felt Like ‘Goku’ Recording ‘Good day Now,’ Says Mustard

Kendrick Lamar went Tremendous Saiyan on his GNX album as Mustard printed that K. Dot channeled his inner-Goku whilst recording “Good day Now.”

Mustard stuck up with the Recording Academy previous this week forward of the Grammy Awards, the place he spread out about a few of his conversations with Lamar surrounding GNX, who took issues to Dragon Ball Z.

“I had heard ‘Good day Now’ all the way through the ‘No longer Like Us’ video shoot; he performed me a snippet. I requested him, ‘Guy, what made you do this,” Mustard recalled asking Lamar. “And he stated, ‘Once I heard the beat, I simply felt like Goku or one thing.’ I used to be like, ‘What?’ And he defined, ‘Yeah, once I listen positive s— to your beats, it brings out one thing else in me, so I simply did no matter I felt.’ I used to be like, ‘Wow, that’s loopy.’”

“Good day Now” options fellow L.A. rapper Dody6 and serves as one of the vital album’s highlights with a snarling Kendrick on the helm having amusing at the mic whilst powering up like Goku. The Mustard-produced monitor ended up achieving No. 5 at the Billboard Sizzling 100.

In a separate interview with Folks, Mustard printed that quite a few stars prior to now handed at the “Good day Now” beat, together with shut buddies Ty Dolla $ign, YG and Quavo. The manufacturer defined he was once seeking to make a “West Coast model of [Clipse’s] ‘Grindin.’”

“That’s why it’s so empty like that. That’s why it’s simply bizarre sounds,” he defined. “[YG] didn’t finally end up doing it … I performed it for Quavo, and I’m like, ‘Quavo guy, should you get this if you’ll connect with this track, I’m telling you,’ he’s like, ‘What the hell you wish to have me to do to it? You need me to whisper at the beat?’ And I’m like, ‘Alright.’ So I didn’t drive it on him.”

Mustard is up for Manufacturer of the Yr, Non-Classical on the 2025 Grammy Awards, whilst K.Dot boasts seven nominations in overall forward of Sunday’s display (Feb. 2).