(Donald is a year older than me.) We have a mutual friend who, when Donald first started making music, I luckily was one of the first people he reached out to about collaborating.
"Me and Donald attended the same high school in Atlanta. On working with Childish Gambino and his cameo on Atlanta People try to hide their flaws, but I think the flaws make them a beautiful person. "You can be with a person, even with your lover, and they want to turn the lights off and make love to you because they don’t want you to examine them under the microscope. I think that it’s beautiful, because that’s the way you come in. Unfortunately, a naked body is seen as exploitive or nasty. I wanted to make it as tasteful as possible. "I don’t know if I really captured it with the artwork I hope people don’t see it and think that I'm trying to sell or degrade myself. Let’s strip everything down to its simplest form possible in order to capture the best work possible. When we record, let’s take the Auto-Tune out let’s create songs based around a story first. Fuck it, let’s take the clothes out of the equation. Let’s take Photoshop out of the equation, let’s take all the filters out of the equation. "The path is to eliminate tricks and gimmicks.
#LLOYD TRU ALBUM COVER WUT FREE#
Insecurities of the body, being free in a public place." All the inhibitions, the insecurities that usually exist in a person to me it’s no exception. Although what you see on the outside is a guy who is apparently balls-to-the-wall naked in the woods near a waterfall, it’s really a moment for me to conquer all the fears that I might have had. “It was really more of an introspective thing. For now, check out the tracklist for the EP below and read what Lloyd has to say about the creation of the cover art, the inspiration behind his new music, and how that cameo on Donald Glover's Atlanta came about.
9 a pre-order for the project will be available in the coming days while the title track (along with the 2 Chainz-assisted remix) is currently up for purchase on iTunes. The song offered up an introspective look at his life away from the spotlight, and more importantly showed a renewed focus on what matters to the veteran R&B singer who has built a career on honesty.įans will get to experience more of this in musical form when Lloyd releases his Tru EP later this year, and today Complex shares the cover art and tracklist for the project. This past spring, Lloyd released “Tru,” his first official single in nearly five years.
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