He isn’t content to let his musical stylings fade into the background-a support act, as bass players tend to be typecast. It ended up shaping the way he approaches making tunes today. For 13 years, Bruner toured and made music with the band. When he was 18 years old in 2002, Bruner joined his brother Ron in the band Suicidal Tendencies, replacing their former bassist Josh Paul. He compares his relationship with his two brothers to “ Malcolm in the Middle.” They’d fight with each other over the TV, the remote, they’d hold contests to see who could finish their meals the fastest.“But in the background, there would be, like, Tony Williams and Billy Cobham,” Bruner says.
Growing up, Bruner’s mother, father, and brothers were all artistically and musically inclined-his father was in the band Cephas and collaborated with the Temptations and Michael Henderson, who famously worked on Davis’s Bitches Brew. It’s funny and peculiar, specific only to him. The video and track encapsulate his songwriting style, which he says he flexes much harder on the upcoming album than in his past work. The much-anticipated follow-up, It Is What It Is, drops on April 3rd, and he’s already released a few singles, including “Dragonball Durag,” whose video features comedian Quinta Brunson, Kali Uchis, and the Haim sisters Este, Danielle, and Alana. concert earlier this month, where Brad Pitt was also seen taking in the show with Alia Shawkat. Ariana Grande, who covered his song Them Changes, attended Thundercat’s L.A. But after it was revealed just how much of an influence Thundercat had on Lamar’s groundbreaking album, (the records he and Lamar listened to for hours in the studio ended up building the blueprint for TPAB’s sound) and with the release of his album, Drunk, in 2017, fans of more mainstream music started to take note. He’s had a lifelong career as a studio artist, and gained the respect of music heads who have revered his idiosyncratic and fiery playing and composing style early on. The Los Angeles native talks about going to school with Shia LaBeouf, and how, when he used to bring his now 13-year-old daughter Sanaa to school on the handlebars of his bike, he’d see Anderson Paak with his kid at the bus stop. He grew up surrounded by musicians: His father and brother are both acclaimed jazz artists, and Bruner was in the punk band Suicidal Tendencies before going on tour with Snoop Dogg’s band, collaborating with Erykah Badu, and working closely with Kendrick Lamar on To Pimp a Butterfly. “Flying Lotus told me one time, ‘You sit somewhere for five minutes and suddenly there’s stuff everywhere.’”īruner’s conversations often go this way-he casually peppers his stories with mentions of legends like Miles Davis, the producer and his best friend Flying Lotus, his longtime collaborator Kamasi Washington, and jazz pianist Robert Glasper. “These come everywhere with me,” Bruner says, his bleach-tipped dreads quivering slightly in front of his face, like long bangs. It looks like a small bomb filled with collectors items has gone off. Bruner brought with him a large red suitcase brimming with Kapital clothing his signature leopard-print earmuffs decorated with rhinestone Chanel brooches seven pairs of sunglasses and X-Men, Thor, and the Hulk comic books still wrapped in plastic. Tchotchkes of all kinds are spread around the studio where the 35-year-old musician has come to discuss his upcoming new album, It Is What It Is.
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Tons of it: a Pikachu backpack filled with other, smaller Pikachu statuettes, plus fuzzy Pikachus clipped onto the straps of the knapsack a Louis Vuitton leather makeup case stuffed with heavy gold chains a Gucci barrette pins from the anime Evangelion (Bruner himself has an interest in illustration, and has been drawing since he started playing music). Stephen Lee Bruner, the bassist known as Thundercat, travels with a lot of stuff.
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