YG Speaks on How Collaboration With Kendrick Lamar Came About

YG dropped his debut album (My Krayzie Life) on Tuesday, and MTV caught up with him for an interview that very day. One of the questions they asked him was how Really Be (Smokin N Drinkin), a collaborative song with Kendrick Lamar off the album came about.





“I recorded it up in Atlanta and I knew that it sounded like a record that Kendrick would get on,” YG said. “So when I got to L.A.,his engineer who did his album, Ali, he mixed my album too, they been hearing my album since like September, so they been hearing it. Kendrick told me that when it was time to put out my album he was gonna hop on one of my records, so he wanted to hear the whole album. So we played him the whole album, then he heard that song, he like, ‘I’m hopping on that, that’s the best song on there.’ That’s how it came, just like that. Real simple."