DJ Dahi Unpacks His Spiritual Samples for Pusha T and Kendrick Lamar, The Formula, NPR Music

Spinning records backwards was once condemned as satanic. But when DJ Dahi reverses samples or alters his voice to produce hits for the likes of Pusha T, Kendrick Lamar or Childish Gambino, it s a ministry of texture and sound. READ THE COMPANION ESSAY Kendrick Lamar s Money Trees Is A Time Machine by Jeff Weiss Another song by Kendrick Lamar this one produced by DJ Dahi that uses a sample to change the flow of time. For writer Jeff Weiss, Money Trees has the uncanny ability at any time, in any mood to drop him into a single night in 2015. That essay is here: n. pr, 2Y6PsEO FULL SERIES PLAYLIST HERE CREDITS Host: Rodney Carmichael; Producers: Nick Michael, CJ Riculan, Maia Stern; Animator: CJ Riculan; Director of Photography: Colin Marshall; Editor: Annabel Edwards; Videographers: Nickolai Hammar, Colin Marshall, Maia Stern; Audio Recording Engineer: Leo Del