Kendrick reached out and asked me to be a featured artist on his first album. I did the chorus on track 4, "No Makeup (Her Vice)". The picture above is us performing the song live together in Hollywood at the Fonda Theater.
88-Keys (No Church In the Wild plus a ton of other Kanye West records) and Wale were two of the first big American artists to collaborate with me.
This is some old footage of Wale and I rehearsing and 88-Keys and I opening for Kid Cudi
When I was working on my second project RZA of Wu-Tang Clan, reached out to collaborate. We met a few times at his studio and crafted something that sounds like Wu-Tang meets Indie Pop.
Here's some footage of us in studio during one of those sessions.
One of the nicest artists I've ever collaborated with is Pusha-T. We connected to do a song for the project I released when I was on Capitol Records. Here's the artwork from that release.
Here's some footage of us in studio working on it.
"Whatever Became Of You" - Drake, Dawn Richards, Colin Munroe
"Runaway Girl" - Drake, Colin Munroe
"Cannonball" - Colin Munroe, Drake
"Where Were You" - Colin Munroe, Drake
"Monsters In My Head" - The Game, Colin Munroe
"Piano Lessons" - Jim Jones, Colin Munroe
"Without U" - Black Milk, Colin Munroe
"So Close So Far" - Bun B, Wale, Colin Munroe
"Scars N Stars" - Colin Munroe, Ab-Soul, Kendrick Lamar
"Dontcha Wanna Be (My Neighbor)" - Nottz, Asher Roth, Colin Munroe
"Not Love" - Cassie, Colin Munroe
"Faster" - Slum Village, Colin Munroe
"Don't Die" - Bun B, Colin Munroe, Talib Kweli
It uses a sample from a Kanye West song.
He re-posted it and helped it go viral, which opened many doors for me. I had dinner with him years later and got to thank him.