I flew out just to add a few more things to the production side with some of his musicians. and we can add on a few more things to it.” He said, “I’ll spit the verse and let you hear it and make sure you’re cool with it, and if so let’s add on to it. The song was already done, and I explained how it came about with BMB Spacekid. I said, “What do you want to do?” And he said, “I want to put a verse on it.” Like, shit, Dre rapping on a verse? Hell yeah. I decided to do a soundtrack album last minute, and I want to put it out with the movie.” When he told him he had a record with Premier that he did in Moscow, Dre said, “Let me hear it.” Once he played it for him, called right away and said, “Yo, I want to do this song for my soundtrack. In the hook he’s saying, “Don’t come around these parts, the whole world thinks we’re animals/ The only way they want to turn the cameras on is when we’re f-ing shit up.” When he said that, I was like, “Yo that’s dope.” Anderson just happened to be going to a meeting with Dre - he had already done a few songs with him, through their management. When he sent it to me it was called “F.S.U.” - F- Shit Up. I want to sent it to you and see what you think - maybe we could leak it out, put it out in the streets and show that we’re angry too.” When the whole Freddie Gray thing happened in Baltimore, Anderson called me and was like, “I’m real angry with what’s going on with the police, and I just wrote a song to that other beat. The first track was just sitting on the back burner, to be used for whatever we wanted to. They wanted to go with the second track, which ended up being called “Til It’s Done,” which has already come out. That’s how the whole project had come about, because I had done it with PRhyme, and was connected with people in Moscow, and they just wanted to show the process of me connecting with a producer in another country. The second track was more of a bounce record, which is already out, through Boiler Room TV. That’s all we did to it - it had a couple change-ups, but mostly we left it alone and started working on another track. I liked the way he laid it down, I found some samples and stuff I liked, I laid that down and programmed it to have the same bounce that I do, so it would have the Premier style of sound. The first one was the one that ended up on the Compton soundtrack - we didn’t have any vocals on it, it was just a beat. Once we got out there, we recorded two tracks. So I already liked the track, and then I just loved the way looked in the video and his whole demeanor. They sent me some YouTube links, and there was one called “Suede.” I saw Knxwledge doing the beat, and I know Knxwledge and his work on Stone’s Throw. Paak.” I was like, “Who is that?” They asked if I was down to do it with him, and I said, “I gotta make sure I like him first, I’ve never heard of him.” I’m like, “Well, who are you going to get to replace him?” He said, “We’re going to get a singer instead of a rapper, Anderson. When we were about to head out to Moscow, MF Doom fell ill and wasn’t able to come out, according to what they told us. To get the opportunity to work with him on another project, with the producer in Russia, who goes by the name of BMB Spacekid. I was like, “Hell yeah,” because me and MF Doom had just done a song for the PRhyme deluxe album that’s about to be released. The pitch was for me to get with a Russian producer, to use Russian samples and music, and then to have MF Doom rap on it.

I went to Moscow earlier this year to work with, like, the top producer in Moscow, which I don’t do - I don’t need to work with any producers. One he liked right off the bat, and he said, “I’m going to work on this.” He told me, “I don’t have a set time for it, but I do want to do it.” I don’t know what I’m going to do with them yet, but I’d love for you to send a few tracks if you have time.” I said, “Yeah, I’ll put something together,” and I sent him like three or four. He told me, “I want to start recording, doing some new music, and I want you to get involved. He was working on a different project - not for the movie, he just started recording again for a different project - so I was already sending him tracks because we spoke to each other last year. How did “Animals,” your track on Compton, come together? In an interview with Billboard, DJ Premier exactly how the collaboration “Animals” with Dr.

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