Thundercat on Creativity, Positive Mindsets & Finding His Sound

Can you force creativity or does it only come when it’s ready?

Double Grammy Award winning artist Thundercat joins Romesh Ranganathan for a wide-ranging conversation about music, art, style and finding your own sound.

From Thundercat’s journey in music, growing up around musicians, to becoming a solo artist and finding his niche, they discuss how his sound developed and how working with Flying Lotus changed everything. He also touches on creating during trauma and why he believes creativity cannot be rushed. And they discuss the potential of a new album...
Plus, a question from Shanthi on confidence and dealing with bullying growing up, touring and new music, a game of Misquoted and obviously, a lot of love for the bass.

A Ranga Bee Production in partnership with Platform.

00:00 Intro

03:23 Romesh gasses up Thundercat

03:57 Gift giving

06:49 Upcoming European Tour

08:15 The difference between American crowds

10:20 Was he always going to be a musician?

11:59 When art starts paying off

14:00 How did he become a solo artist?

16:30 How to define Thundercats genre

22:19 A question from Shanthi on confidence

25:28 On getting bullied

29:09 Thundercats style

35:00 New music and possible albums

38:30 On trauma effecting creativity

40:13 Misquoted

43:50 On Mac Miller

45:56 Misquoted continued

48:03 Is Thundercat a Thundercat fan?

50:56 The importance of bass

52:55 Outro

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