{"id":25915,"date":"2016-05-01T15:15:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T23:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=25915"},"modified":"2016-05-01T15:16:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T23:16:17","slug":"anderson-paaks-central-coast-connections-watch-official-video-for-the-seasoncarry-methe-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2016-05\/anderson-paaks-central-coast-connections-watch-official-video-for-the-seasoncarry-methe-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson .Paak’s Central Coast Connections–Watch Official Video for “The Season\/Carry Me\/The Waters”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shows how wrong we can be. For some reason we had it in our heads that rising rapper Anderson .Paak<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>came out of Compton<\/strong>. Nope. Must have been confused by .Paak’s<\/strong> signing with Dre’s Aftermath<\/strong> label. We got set straight while watching the official video for the combined Malibu<\/strong> <\/em>tracks\u00a0The Season\/Carry Me<\/strong><\/em> and The Waters<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0Paak<\/strong>\u00a0instead grew up in nearby Oxnard<\/strong>. Check out the video below with its references to Oxnard’s omnipresent strawberries<\/strong>, Santa Barbara County’s\u00a0Chumash Casino<\/strong> and Saks<\/strong>. \u00a0.Paak<\/strong> had a tough upbringing with his dad going to prison and dying young and his mom also being imprisoned for tax evasion. You can hear the story told well in the songs’ lyrics (edited to match the video). \u00a0The video is co-directed by .Paak<\/strong> and Chris Le<\/strong>, and looks a bit like the\u00a0Malibu<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0album’s cover art as filmed and animated by Wes Anderson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

.Paak<\/strong>\u00a0has said this about his hometown and the song The Season<\/strong><\/em>: “It\u2019s a tribute to my surroundings and where I grew up in Oxnard. It\u2019s only an hour away from L.A. but it\u2019s very different. Small town\u2014I was dead set on getting out. Growing up I wanted to get to the big city and do my thing. But when I look back at it now I\u2019m really appreciative.\u00a0All the things I went through in that city it made me who I am in the sense of my artistry, outlook and approach. I kinda was always an outsider, and had to learn a lot when I came to L.A. It took me a while\u2014I had to go through a lot of development\u2014and that\u2019s a whole part of the come up. That\u2019s what I\u2019m getting at. If I didn\u2019t have love for you growing up, I damn sure have it now.\u00a0Reaping the benefits of the fruit of your labor, planting those seeds two to five years prior and then seeing them actually blossom into a tree\u2014or into a strawberry, if you will\u2014my mom did that. She invested in herself and started a produce company, and it didn\u2019t crack off until later. When it did crack off, she reaped some heavy benefits and I wanted to put that into a song. I saw how that paralleled with my artistry and life. She was always adamant about hard work paying off.”<\/p>\n

Check the video and songs out below. \u00a0We’ve become big fans of Oxnard’s .Paak<\/strong>.<\/p>\n