Kaytranada details “Bubba,” and turning down a meeting with Dr. Dre once upon a time in a new interview.
One Kaytranada‘s biggest regrets, he says, is turning down a meeting with Dr. Dre. In a recent prile with GQ, Kaytranada, a few months removed from his new project Bubba, detailed the early years his career when he first began to pop in 2013. At the time, he was getting a lot people who reached out to him for production or a simple meeting. However, many those artists, he felt, wouldn’t be a good meeting.
“There’s a lot artists that wouldn’t have made sense. A lot pop artists. There’s a lot artists that I used to love their music, but I don’t think, like, today it would make sense if I collaborated with them. Maybe I was trippin’,” he explained. When asked for a specific example an artist he turned down meeting, he revealed that he was once fered an opportunity to sit down with Dr. Dre.
“Dr. Dre wanted to meet me and play beats and, I didn’t think I had the beats to play, and I was just like, ‘You know what? Nevermind. Maybe next time.” And I kind regret it today,” he said.
However, maybe the Dr. Dre collaboration wouldn’t have worked out in the way he would’ve liked. He explained that because he became accustomed to working on music alone in his bedroom, there needs to be established chemistry before he gets into the booth with anyone.
“I’ve always been this loner guy. And I never liked being on teams. That’s why I have a lot problems collaborating with other] producers, personally,” he said. “If that person happens to be my friend, it would be much easier! It would be fun and exciting! The session would be perfect. But like people I don’t know? I’m gonna be very shy. It will take a while for me to open up. But I’m doing my best to fake that, so it happens.”