Mustard sits down and tells us what it was like to create ‘Faith of a Mustard Seed,’ the creative direction of his album, how he chooses his collaborators and more. ‘Faith of a Mustard Seed’ is out July 26.
Mustard:
And he was just like, “Well, if you’re not gonna name this one that, you got to do an album called ‘Faith of a Mustard Seed.'”
Tetris Kelly:
You took a break from this for five years, so finally you came back. Why was now the time?
Mustard:
I think just working out the kinks of like what I wanted to… wanted people to hear from me. Life just lifeing, you know.
Tetris Kelly:
Life will life.
Mustard:
Just taking my time.
Tetris Kelly:
So you decided to name the album ‘Faith of a Mustard Seed.’ Now do you feel like the energy from Nipsey and what you’ve learned from those conversations that that kind of transferred into the music and how you created this project?
Mustard:
Yeah, it kinda is weird how it came about because I had a whole ‘nother title for this album. And I was — I started making music going towards that. And then I was talking to my mom one day on the phone saying, “When are you going to make me a song? … Something that I would like, something older, something for me.” And she’s a really big Luther Vandross fan, and I sampled a song of Luther Vandross, but I grew up hearing so much Luther Vandross in the house, I’m talking about die-hard, Luther Vandross. Once I made that song, Masego played on the song, Ty’s on the song, Charlie Wilson’s on the song.
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