Kendrick Lamar’s Engineer Explains Process Behind His Drake Diss Songs

Mastering engineer Nicolas de Porcel — who’s credited on Drake diss songs “Euphoria,” “Meet the Grahams,” and “Not Like Us” — spoke with EngineEars a few weeks back in a clip that’s starting to make the rounds on social media.

While on EngineEars Live, de Porcel was asked what his experience was like working with Kendrick and his pgLang team during the hectic Drake and Kendrick rap battle. He revealed how the Compton rapper was recording songs as the beef was happening, telling host Curtis “Sircut” Bye, “It was a little crazy. I got a call and it was like, ‘Stay on call, you’re gonna be working.”

Adding, “I would get the song and like six minutes would elapse and they’d be like, ‘How we looking?’ It was very high pressure. As Dot was releasing these records, it was like, I was turning in the masters… it would drop like 12 minutes later. It was amazing.”

There was originally some speculation that Kendrick had prerecorded some of his songs due to how fast he was churning them out, especially the weekend when he immediately responded to Drake’s “Family Matters” with “Meet the Grahams” and then followed with “Not Like Us” a day later. This clip should finally put those rumors to rest.

Founded by MixedByAli, EngineEars is a platform dedicated to the art of mixing and mastering while also giving artists access to world class engineers. Kendrick and DJ Khaled are also listed as investors.

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