Producer Sounwave On Kendrick Lamar’s Historic No. 1 Album ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’
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billboard.comCompton, Calif., native Sounwave, born Mark Spears, is an in-house producer at the record label Top Dawg Entertainment and has had a hand in every release from rapper Kendrick Lamar since his self-titled debut EP in 2009, including Black Panther: The Album (2018), DAMN. (2017) and To Pimp a Butterfly (2015). “Watching Sounwave inspired me to be the engineer I am today,” says Top Dawg Entertainment/Engine Ears’ Derek “MixedByAli” Ali. “His work ethic, discipline and creative hunger are all second to none.”The jazz- and funk-inspired Butterfly hit No.
1 on the Billboard 200 and Top Rap Albums charts and spent 125 and 79 weeks on each, respectively. The album went on to earn 11 Grammy nominations — including for album and song of the year.
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