Chords for The Making Of Kendrick Lamar's "LOVE." With Teddy Walton | Deconstructed

_ I learned to go with Kendrick through _ Zachari.
As simple as it sounds, one day I was like,
yo, where you gonna let me play Kendrick some beats?
And he was like, oh, you think it's that simple?
I was like, yeah, [Bb] if you put me in a room with Kendrick,
I'm gonna get some place, _ automatically.
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[Bb] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ Usually people expect you to go to studios,
like huge studios, you know,
like go across town and all that.
[F] I do the opposite.
I'd rather work from the crib. _
[Dm] _ I wake up in the morning, watch a movie,
like roll up, pray.
Like, I'm real simple.
I _ don't like to do too much.
Like, I'm an in-house person, for real.
_ _ _ I'm more than just a beat maker.
_ _ I'm not the guy to be like, man,
I'm finna make 30 beats today.
_ Nah, it's more of like,
it's more of like a lifestyle to me.
Like, [Bb] it comes to me.
At a certain time.
For an example, like all the songs that I have out right now
is like I made at the crib. _ _ _ _
I'm a Zakkari, basically.
I was working at Bryson House.
He actually wasn't a singer.
_ At least I didn't think, I didn't think he was a singer.
He had a saxophone in his hand.
And he's dope at like every instrument.
I never really knew that he could really sing
until we actually started really like working together
on a regular basis.
And we made a lot of records.
But when we made this, we were like, oh, _ [Dm] what is this?
Like, we knew that this was crazy.
_ I first started off this beat by putting some filtered keys
just to give it the right build up that it needs, really. _ _ _
[Bb] It's like a Rhodes, like a regular piano. _ _ _ _
If I was [F] explaining the effects I have on here,
it'd take [Dm] all day.
But I put layers of effects on all my instruments
to make it sound like a total different instrument.
If you was listening to my beats,
like you would think that I'm like really [Bb] good
at the piano, but I'm like, I'm not, I'm not good at all.
It's more of just me, like I mastered FL Studio.
_ _ _ _ The second thing I added on this beat is the sample
that me and Zakkari basically, we made something original
from a lot [F] of different content that he had.
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_ [N] So just to build on top of that, a simple kick.
_ _ _ _ _ After I did the kicks,
I did the hi-hats and the snare immediately. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [F] I basically enhanced every instrument that I heard
in the original sample.
I love this bass.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Again, it's real simple.
I do simple things, so if you put it together,
it sounds complex.
I'm gonna play the kicks and the hi-hats
and the bass together.
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It has to flow, like everything has to be cohesive.
I treat it like a house,
like I'm building a house or something.
_ I'm playing a game, it's not like just making beats.
This is my favorite one.
I don't think nobody even noticed it in the beat.
_ It's my voice, it's like a whole bunch of different stuff.
_ I hear a lot of beats and it sounds like
a certain person made it.
That's one of the reasons why I don't have a tag.
I want people to know that like a certain sound
that I'm using, that's a Teddy beat.
_ Zakkari had like a vocal chop.
_ _ I put a crazy effect on this one, the last one.
_ _ _ _ Just to give it that bounce.
Obviously Kendrick caught the bounce of it.
_ His lyrics was actually responding to my vocal chop.
So as I added the vocals, it was pretty much done to me,
but I wanted to make something pop out a little bit more.
I added these keys. _ _
_ _ _ _ The last element that I added to this beat
is these crazy [Db] snares that I got.
I basically just put a regular snare there
and put a lot of distortion on it
to be on some Watch the Throne shit.
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The funny part about this beat is
it's not even that many instruments. _
Everything's simple, but _ once you put
all the instruments together,
it sounds like _ a full song.
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One of [F] the reasons why this song is big
because for one, I don't think nobody
have heard Kendrick on this type of vibe.
The crazy thing about it, I wasn't playing this before Kendrick.
It was Kendrick asking me,
[Bb] hey, play something you're working on.
_ It was just him being curious of, I guess,
[F] _ of what I'm listening to
or what everybody else is listening to.
I was just playing this little key,
just showing off what I got.
_ He just said it was a great song.
He really didn't react _ _ until the next day, really,
until I found out that he _ likes the record
and he wanted me to come back.
After he dropped down, I was like,
I could see why he picked the beat.
It definitely slid perfectly.
It was almost like it was made for him, honestly. _
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