Thundercat On 'It Is What It Is,' Losing Mac Miller And Learning To Do Nothing

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Thundercat On 'It Is What It Is,' Losing Mac Miller And Learning To Do Nothing
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The quarantine is sitting just fine with genre-bending bassist Thundercat: 'Over the course of the last year, because of all of the things that actually have changed in my life, I've gotten better at just sitting still.'

I'm chilling. I feel like I was already a homebody, kind of self-quarantining kind of person on a regular basis, anyways. So it doesn't feel like far-fetched or anything. It feels very close to what I would be doing on my own anyway.No [laughs]. I have a ton of things I miss, for sure. I miss being with Lotus and working a bit. But it's all good. It hasn't gone anywhere.

I mean, it's hard to see clearly through the pain of losing him. I think Mac's spirit always was very influential, ever since I met him, in my attitude about recording; just the way I would go about recording sometimes, I knew it's something I had learned working with Mac. But it's kind of hard to see clearly with that. I mean, even on the album, I'm kind of saying goodbye to him a bit.a story about when you joined Mac Miller for his Tiny Desk concert.

That's where the name of the album comes from."It is what it is," is like this is reality; this is what we live in; this is the existence; this is the existential dread, that feeling of"I don't know what's going to happen" and impending doom. It's been realized on many different levels. I'm happy that I can still laugh through a lot of it, but at the same time it's just the reality. We're all going to die at some point.

I definitely think that people will have a chance to connect with it in any way. Music for me is what I do; everything else is a plus. Playing live for me is a major aspect of it, but being adaptable and being open to change and stuff like that — I don't know. Like the movie, we're kind of living in that a little bit. There's a part of it where I'm very adaptable with this stuff. ... I always see stuff and I go"It's not really a race.

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