George Clinton calls Kendrick Lamar an ‘institution’ in the music industry <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nKendrick Lamar has earned the praise of George Clinton for his non-traditional approach to music.<\/p>\n
Clinton gave an interview The New York Times Magazine<\/i> for the list of the 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters, where he expressed his thoughts on the type of music Lamar was making.<\/p>\n
The 84-year-old American singer and songwriter, best known as the leader of the funk bands Parliament and Funkadelic, said, “I’d put it this way: him, with Motown, Sly Stone, the Beatles \u2013 that kind of institution is going to last a long time. There’s a lot of slick writers out there with lyrics and things these days, but he writes with soul.”<\/p>\n
Clinton highlighted Lamar’s maturity, which primarily stems from his music, quipping, “He’s a little kid, but when I met him, he seemed my age.”<\/p>\n
“He’s like a psychiatrist on the record \u2013 he talks about the (expletives) that most people are afraid to talk about. He’s at the point where he can move the conversation forward. No one will talk about these topics, and he talks about them so matter-of-factly that you don’t even think, you can’t say that,” he explained.<\/p>\n
Other than this, mothership connection<\/i> The crooner also praised Lamar’s ability to remain relevant at a time when many people were experimenting with music and creating great songs.<\/p>\n
“Kids today, they want their new artist; they don’t want their older brother or sister or their mom and dad’s artist. Kids don’t like you after a few years. When you can move past that and the next generation after that can still talk about you, you’re doing something,” he said.<\/p>\n
It is noteworthy that George Clinton is a fan of Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 album To tease a butterfly,<\/i> Which won the award for Best Rap Album at the 58th Grammy Awards.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n