![]() “Element” went through as many as 25 different versions. Some cuts, like “Pride,” were in the works for over a year. ![]() ![]() Lamar, his label A&R man and some of the producers would regularly trade intensive texts about revising songs, especially if they played one for friends or tastemakers who weren’t feeling it. A jam session led by Sounwave and Dahi followed, eventually resulting in the slinky “Yah.” Lamar and Bono had been talking about collaborating in one form or another for a while, but finally Bono sent in a slew of song ideas and vocals that Lamar and some of his producers picked apart until they found just the right moments, then built a track around it. During a trip to New York last August, Lamar and some of his creative posse spent a day listening almost exclusively to Frank Ocean’s Blonde, which had just dropped on iTunes.
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