Thundercat

'Looney Tunes' was not a children's cartoon. I don't care what anybody says. It was very politically charged, very racial. And then they tried to soften it up for kids later. But it was for the adults.

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I love Gino Vannelli! I love every one of his albums. He's one of my favourite songwriters - straight up.

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Sometimes I practice to Allan Holdsworth or John McLaughlin, but I don't just practice to jazz and jazz-fusion albums. I'll practice to TV theme music - one of my favorites is 'M*A*S*H.' I'll just play along with anything on the TV.

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Driving around with my dad, growing up, he would play everything: Philip Bailey, Manhattan Transfer, Frank Zappa, Cream. I'd be like, 'Dad, cut this stuff off!' And he'd say, 'No, you're gonna listen to it.' I didn't understand why he liked it so much. In my mind, I would be thinking about the theme song to 'Sonic the Hedgehog.'

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That will be on my tombstone: He lived five minutes away from Flying Lotus.

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I actually went to an arts middle school with Shia LaBeouf, but even there, I was one of the weirder kids.

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I grew up in Compton: 116th and Wilmington.

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