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GORDO Talks To Apple Music About New Album 'DIAMANTE,' Collaborating With Drake, And Transitioning From Hip-Hop To House Music

Jul 27, 2024 0 comments



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Shout to Zane Lowe for the tip

GORDO Tells Apple Music How He Came To Work On Longtime Friend Drake’s Dance Album ‘Honestly, Nevermind’…

 

GORDO: I was hanging out with him a lot and I was going to Toronto to see him every once in a while, and I would go over to his house and just hang out at his house and just chill. And then one day we're in the car coming back from the spot, and I was just couraged up and I was like, "Yo, let me play you a song." He's like, "Yeah sure." And I played him Target, that's on my album, a song with T-Pain. And he was just like, "What? You're making house? You're making this type of shit now?" And I'm like, "Yeah." He was like, "Really?" And I played him another song, he was like, "What the fuck?" And then literally we get home and then we didn't talk about it, he went to sleep, I went to sleep. Woke up the next day, he was going somewhere and he comes down listening to the song on his phone. He's like, "Bro, I haven't stopped listening to it." He's like, "Can I try something?" And I'm like, "Yeah, for sure, do it." And that day I remember he went to somewhere and he left me in his house, and I had his house by myself. And it was just me and my other homie, and we literally had the house, and I recreated the Tootsie Slide video on my phone, like walking around.

 

And I remember from then on he was like, "Yo, I'm working on an album with Black Coffee and 40, it's a house album. Do you want to try something?" And then boom, from there, from one it went to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. I think we made nine songs, but only six or seven of them made it on the album.

 

 

GORDO Tells Apple Music About Drake Featuring On His New Song “Healing”…

 

GORDO: And it's difficult, for someone who doesn't know dance music, for us to explain to them how cool it is that he went that route, other than going the mainstream big stream route where he could have worked with Calvin Harris, David Guetta, Tiësto and all of the greats, and went that route.

 

Zane Lowe: Well also, to your point, GORDO, he keeps it moving. And so you spent all this time making a beautiful body of work that is going to find an audience over a long period of time, that moves with taste and credibility in that space. You are there, Coffee's there, all the people you mentioned. Oliver's got incredible taste, they've all got incredible taste. So that's going to happen. Is he going to have time to stick around and really immerse himself in that experience long enough to know what he made and how it's going to impact... Do you know what I mean? He's moving.

 

GORDO: He's always moving, but he's like... I know fucking a lot of artists in this world. And he's one of those guys that... He just gets it. And it blows my mind because obviously... Guys like Kanye, who are great. And I know him, and it's like... You know how he is, but there's a different type of human. His brain is like. And you have Drake, where Drake's a different type of human. His brain's also like Bruno, but he projects it in a different way or explains it in a different way. It doesn't matter, at the end of the day, if you're both doing math and you guys get the answer right, it doesn't matter how the fuck you came up with it. As long as it's right. Now he's fully, fully [00:40:00] trusting me. And it took a while to get there, but he's like "All right, cool. What do you want to do? Cool. Boom. Here's a vocal, do whatever the fuck you want." And the fact that Drake is giving me fully like, "Yo, do whatever you want. I trust you." I don't think... It still hasn't hit me yet.

 

 

GORDO Talks To Apple Music About Making The Transition From Hip-Hop To Dance Music…

 

It's crazy because in the world that I was in, it was 99% white people. So then here comes this black guy, and I come and I'm a big deal and I'm wearing chains and I'm

with girls and I'm walking. I'm the first DJ really walking into EDC with 2025 goons with me. I don't come from dance music, I come from hip hop. I come from making Hip-Hop beats. So when I fell in love with dance music, I've had this conversation with a bunch of people. If you sit here with another DJ, with any other DJ, you ask who's their heroes? They're going to say some random, some rock people or some other dance guy and shit. My heroes were 50 cent, Lil Wayne. I was seeing ass shaking on videos growing up with my mom. I grew up watching 106 and watching MTV and BET. This is the culture I come from. But then I got put into this culture where it was easy for him to be like, that's the angry Black guy. That's the guy he thinks he's cocky, cocky guy, humble down. Where in our culture, I can be like, yeah nigga, I'm flyer than you, my song... And then you'll be like, all right, cool. You know what I'm saying? And it's all love, and it's not disrespectful. Where in this world I'm like, yeah, I'm the shit. That sounds crazy and they're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Calm down, calm down.

 

 

GORDO Talks To Apple Music About His Grandma Seeking Aslyum At The Border And How That Has Affected His Outlook On Life…

 

Bro, I'm so blessed, bro. I live with my grandma still. My grandma is 90 years old. I moved my grandma with me to Hawaii. I live in Hawaii, and my grandma has the craziest fucking story, bro, where my grandma fled Nicaragua with five kids, and the plane was getting shot down. My grandpa stole a plane, and they took all the kids and got found by the Red Cross, and then walked all the way from Guatemala up to Mexico across the border illegally, got granted asylum in McAllen, Texas. The kids were split up just like all the kids are being split up. I built schools for a living. I buy jewelry, but then I also build schools. I'm so in tune about giving back and doing something positive in life, because that's all we have in life is legacy. That's all we have. We're going to be forgotten about in 200, 300 years. We all know this. It's reality. We're all going to die, but all we have in this planet and life is to leave our legacy.

 

 

GORDO Talks To Apple Music About Transitioning From Carnage To GORDO And Paying Homage To His Roots…

 

Carnage was known as the guy that worked with all the new guys, and that was with trap, and that was with rap and dance music. And with Carnage, I had such a great career doing that. And then now going into GORDO and doing the same thing with house music and still bridging the gap between rap and now Latin music, which was never a thing that I had with Carnage. So having all these things, I always love to go back. This last week going into the album, I've just been having so many flashbacks of all the things that... Because I want to be grateful and I want to know where I'm at. And I had a call with Quavo not too long ago, and I just thanked him. I was like, thank you for giving me a chance. And back then with Bricks, thank you to Uzi for “What do you Want?” Thank you to Yachty for “Mase in '97.” Thank you to Mac Miller for “Learn How to Watch.” Thank you to Lil Pump, “i Shyne”. “I Like Tuh” Makonnen. I've had so many crazy impactful moments in our culture that I forget about these things and I want to remind myself. So whenever I get upset or sad that I'm not doing enough, I need to remind myself that I have the experience, you know?

 

 

GORDO Talks To Apple Music About His Health Journey And Going Gluten-Free…

 

GORDO: And then I had esophagitis. I had gastritis, hiatal hernia, H. pylori. My body just gave out. And then that was right at the same time that COVID hit. I couldn't breathe. And I was like, "Okay, my lungs are smoked, I have COVID, I'm dying. I don't know what's going on." Went to the hospital a couple of times and they were just like, "Your lungs are perfectly fine," not knowing it was my esophagus. And I couldn't breathe, I couldn't take a deep breath 'cause I had just burnt my esophagus so bad. Then from that I got inflammation type 2, which is an autoimmune disease. And from that I had EoE, which is a throat thing. I've been dealing with health issues from just touring. So I learned my lesson and that's why I'm just like... And I'm still dealing with it now. Now I'm gluten-free for a month, that's way more... That's more harder for me from me stopping... I haven't drank in four years. Fuck that, bread is harder to stop.

 

Zane Lowe: Let me tell you, the high street just laughs at you. The high street just laughs at you. You walk down any single street in any town or city in the world and it's just, "Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee." It's like a crazy clown show. It's just bread coming at you like just, "Aah, bread."

 

GORDO: There's so much gluten everywhere. That's something you don't notice, there's gluten everywhere.

 

Zane Lowe: Dude, I've gone from complete no-salt diet for two weeks to very low sodium in the last four days. You know the hardest thing to avoid? Sodium. That is everywhere.

 

GORDO: It's insane, huh? Yeah, it's everywhere. Salt's everywhere.

 

Zane Lowe: It's crazy. But you know what? I feel...

 

GORDO: You feel great.

 



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