At Home With Anderson .Paak: The Playlist

“I'll never take that for granted again, just those moments of being able to play for thousands of people,” Anderson .Paak tells Apple Music about playing sold-out shows at the Forum and Madison Square Garden in support of his 2019 Best Teef in the Game tour before the pandemic. “I just hope that things can go back to normal soon.” Since the pandemic hit, the rapper, singer, drummer, and producer is using all his time at home to pursue other hobbies—from working on visuals and writing plays and scripts to nurturing his son’s creative pursuits. As he returns with his single “JEWELZ,” .Paak curates this exclusive Apple Music playlist featuring the likes of Baby Keem, Chaka Khan, Knxwledge, and John Lennon, whose classic piano ballad “Jealous Guy” got him emotional when he heard it for the first time during a flight. “This is like one of those songs where you’re 30,000 feet up and you just start crying your eyes out. They’re trying to give you peanuts and shit, and you're like, ‘Not now, bro,’” he says. “I love those kinds of songs that really make you want to sit up there and look out the window. And it's like, ‘Damn, I should have did things differently,’ or ‘I'm sorry.’”