As if on cue, a Top Dawg Entertainment employee politely interrupts producer Mark "Sounwave" Spears, who was telling the story about how he linked with rap icon Kendrick Lamar more than a decade ago.
"I think you'll be pretty happy with this," the TDE staffer slyly winks.
"Is that what I think this is?" Soundwave replies.
A nod. Sounwave's excitement lands somewhere
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Sounwave: How the Kendrick Lamar and ‘Black Panther’ Producer Quietly Made America’s Soundtrack