Thundercat

“I don't look at my instrument as having one specific role; I was raised to go as far as you can. But Raphael Saadiq hated my bass. He told me to throw it away. And playing in Snoop's band, t...”

“I feel like I try to write from an honest of a place as I can - without scaring people off too much, I guess.”

“'Looney Tunes' was not a children's cartoon. I don't care what anybody says. It was very politically charged, very racial. And then they tried to soften it up for kids later. But it was for...”

“I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass.”

“I actually went to an arts middle school with Shia LaBeouf, but even there, I was one of the weirder kids.”

“I grew up in Compton: 116th and Wilmington.”