Kendrick Lamar

In this YouTube video, Dow Jones and Henny (Tha Bizness) rely on MASCHINE, describing their process:

"[We] basically went in Maschine, started going through the samples. If you listen to the track stock, it would sound completely different. But we used Maschine's internal effects to… just to really beef everything up and kinda make our own sound. We load in our own drums. Did a simple arrangement with nothing added, no effects or whatever."

"People always ask, when I get Maschine what sounds does it come with? It comes with a lot of sounds but the greatest part of Maschine to us is that you can record whatever you want in it. Then we add effects. This was the first time that we recorded live instruments into Maschine, instead of how some people might take live instruments and record them straight into Pro Tools."

Tha Bizness, the production duo behind Kendrick Lamar's hit song "Sherane" is seen making use of the Apogee ONE USB Audio Interface. Kendrick Lamar can be seen singing into it, making use of the Apogee ONE's internal microphone.

Kendrick Lamar can be seen with Tha Bizness in the production of his track, "Sherane." In this YouTube video we spotted an Apple MacBook Pro being used as the main computer for the music production.

"I also like to use the Distressor on [Kendrick's] lead, because it adds some grit and presence at the top. So the RCompressor and S1 smooth and widen out his vocal sound, and the Distressor opens up the top end, making it crisp and allowing his vocals to cut through."

In this YouTube video, Kendrick Lamar is seen joining Tha Bizness in the production of his hit song "Sherane." During the video Tha Bizness is seen using an iRig KEYS, a portable USB MIDI keyboard that can connect to iOS devices.

"For outboard I used the EMT 250 reverb. The first time the studio took that out, I was like: ‘What’s that? A refrigerator?’"

Engineer Derek Ali on recording To Pimp a Buterfly : "Sometimes I’ll run [Kendrick's] vocals through a Pultec EQP-1A3."