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: FULL SERIES PLAYLIST HERE