Thundercat is slowly winning fans over with his brand of cool jazz and cerebral songwriting. The talented multi-instrumentalist came equipped on the small stage of the NPR “Tiny Desk” series with his crew where the quartet eviscerated the cramped space. Thundercat came correct championing the merits of Mortal Combat whilst rocking tight swim trunks and a pink hoodie. Dude looked cooler than a mothaf*cker.

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Thundercat most recently dropped his latest album, “Drunk,” earlier this year. Red Bull Music Academy caught up with the west coast artist about the project with a track by track interview that you can read over here. Here’s an excerpt about the album title:

I’ve always tried to hold true to what Erykah Badu and Flying Lotus told me: It has to come from an honest place. I feel like it’s a place that I’ve been in different ways. Seen different angles of and it’s been a bit inspirational, the drinking. It has its ups and downs and everything, but I felt like it showed the human side of what goes on behind things. Something that I see with all of my friends. I felt like it was kind of interweaved in the music culture. And it’s something that’s never talked about.
It’s more like a picture of a time and a period: My experience with the specific drunkness or just how I’ve observed it in people I’m around. Because I didn’t grow up in a household with drinking at all, but at some point I feel like it goes hand-in-hand with other things and many other types of drugs and vices and stuff. It swirls around like gnats. They swirl around like gnats around the music. The music being the shit.

Thundercat – ‘Show You The Way (feat. Michael McDonald & Kenny Loggins)’ (Official Video)

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