Mustard may have provided the soundtrack to West Coast unity with his opening DJ set at Kendrick Lamar‘s Juneteenth Pop Out concert, but he was panicky about it.
In an interview with Billboard published on Thursday (October 8), Mustard, who of course produced Lamar’s song-of-the-summer Drake diss “Not Like Us,” remembered the historic concert.
“I was nervous as shit,” he told Billboard‘s Kristin Robinson. “It just didn’t feel real.”
Later in the piece, Mustard shares that he was headed to a 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢 shower when “Not Like Us” dropped.
“Somebody sent me a message, and I was just like, ‘Oh, shit,’ and then I hung up in their face, and I was just playing it over and over,” he said.
In other Mustard news, it appears that he’s making music with Kendrick’s mentor Dr. Dre.
The 10 Summers hitmaker posted a picture on Instagram last month of himself and the N.W.A legend in the lab together, quoting some of Dre’s lyrics from “Forgot About Dre” in his caption.
“Back in the lab with my pen and my pad,” he wrote.
Mustard’s post made waves online, with fellow producer extraordinaire Timbaland commenting, “Bout damm time” along with several fire emojis.
While it’s unclear what the two may have been working on, both Dr. Dre and Mustard will have left their mark on 2024 when the year is said and done.
Following a relatively quiet few years, Mustard made an epic comeback this summer by soundtracking “Not Like Us,” which not only topped the Billboard Hot 100 and broke multiple streaming records, but was the decisive blow in Kendrick’s high-profile beef with Drake.
The multi-platinum producer followed that up with his first album in five years, Faith of a Mustard Seed, which boasted collaborations with Future, Travis Scott, Young Thug, Kodak Black, Lil Durk and more.
Dre, meanwhile, is expected to drop the aforementioned Missionary with Snoop Dogg in the coming months, marking the legendary duo’s first full-length effort since 1993’s Doggystyle.
The Aftermath founder recently fueled excitement for the album by hailing it as some of his best work.
“This one’s gonna show a different level of maturity with his lyrics and with my music. I feel like this is some of the best music I’ve done in my career,” he told Entertainment Tonight. “I’m not playing.”
