Gorillaz are making headlines weekly, it seems. Today, we are learning yet another behind-the-scenes truth about the band and where their thoughts are concerning current, past, and or future musical collaboration. Gorillaz made a point to announce recently that they wanted De La Soul on “Kids with Guns”.
According to NME, The hip-hop group De La Soul have worked closely with Gorillaz for almost two decades – dating back to their iconic appearance on the band’s hit single, ‘Feel Good Inc.’, released as part of the 2005 ‘Demon Days’ album.
In a new interview, co-founder of De La Soul Maseo revealed that Blur frontman Damon Albarn originally suggested that they feature on a different single: ‘Kids With Guns’.
“When we went to do ‘Feel Good Inc.’, the initial song was ‘Kids with Guns,’” he said in a recent episode of Kyle Meredith With…. “When we were having a conversation about ‘Kids with Guns,’ I honestly came out and said, ‘Hey man, I think we forcing it.’ … I think we’re not really collaborating, we’re just featuring on the record. It’s like Gorillaz featuring De La. We really need to do like a collaboration, where we both artistically show our flavour.’”
From there, he explained how “after a lot of weed and tequila”, the choice was made to have the band appear on a different single instead. The initial track, ‘Kids With Guns’ went on to feature Swedish singer-songwriter, Neneh Cherry – although didn’t match the same level of success as seen with ‘Feel Good Inc.’.
