Terrace Martin

Yeah, it's really stark, the difference between the two approaches on that song.

It's funny because when I played it for Terrace Martin, who was involved in arranging all the horns on the album, when I played it for him, he said, this sounds like what the thesis was going into the album of matching the classic with the 808s.

He said, this sounds like this is what you guys were aiming for.

Amazing.

Yeah, man, it's a really great project.

Yes, my number six is Terrace Martin's Velvet Portraits.

Now, this is an album I feel like has not aged with me personally well.

I would say, you know, this is an album without a context.

This is Terrace Martin's first straight-up jazz album.

Before this point, he was...

Literally just like, you know, one of the many LA-based hip-hop producers of the 2010s.

I need to reiterate, this is a year in my life where I was literally just discovering everything in real time.

The horns, strings, organ, and percussive elements surround Legend's voice with warmth and movement.

Terrace Martin's horn arrangements add color while the orchestral passages help connect the songs.

Pharrell gives the music a playful bounce without crowding the performances.

The title track in the song Pray For Ya leans into that chemistry, mixing flirtation with touches of church.

Having that lush instrumentation, those live players, we used live orchestration for everything.

Our horns were produced by Terrace Martin and our strings were arranged by Matt Jones and Larry Gold, a Philadelphian.

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Make some noise! Now, one of these brothers we had, but this other brother, we've been trying to get down, and we're trying to get him on the show to give him some flowers.

I just want to go ahead.

I want to start the controversy off top right now in the intro.

But the fact that we didn't even get no callbacks.

It was just like, nah, you about to tell us what this music should sound like.

Because this story is really about young brothers like us.

We was the 11, 12-year-olds watching them dudes from the porch like, damn, look at Eazy coming down the street.

Pusha T, Malice.

Terrace Martin, who's an incredible musician and producer.

He produced all the horns on it.

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We got Thundercat out of that.

We got Terrace Martin out of that.

We got fucking Rhapsody out of that.

We got a lot of people y'all would have never heard on a big mainstream level.