Anderson .Paak
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
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4.6 • 69.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
Anderson .Paak (K-Pops!, Oxnard, Malibu) is a Grammy Award-winning songwriter, music producer, and filmmaker. Anderson joins the Armchair Expert to discuss people discovering him through his wide-ranging collaborations, how his dad and uncle were like the hood version of Freaky Friday, and feeling grateful that he took the opportunity to repair with his father before he passed. Anderson and Dax talk about how his mom turned a strawberry stand into a multimillion dollar business into a prison stay, why the best musicians come out of church bands, and staring at Dr. Dre’s feet while playing him songs for the first time. Anderson explains going viral with his Tiny Desk concert, making music videos as training to direct his first film, and why having a Trust Your Gut tattoo helps him to remember to do so.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert. I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by Lily Padman. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello. |
| 0:06.5 | Boy, long time coming, begging, sending Instagram, making public Instagram posts. |
| 0:12.4 | You're sliding into his DMs. Exactly. I don't know that I've ever put more effort into getting a guest. |
| 0:18.8 | And last year, you may recall last year he was like, I'm going to, I will come on. |
| 0:22.8 | I was like, oh, my God, he's like, when I'm promoting my movie? |
| 0:24.7 | I'm like, oh, my God, when's this movie going to happen? |
| 0:26.7 | I know. |
| 0:27.0 | Well, guess what the movie has happened? |
| 0:29.8 | It's here. |
| 0:30.8 | Anderson Pack. |
| 0:31.6 | Brandon, Pock, Anderson. |
| 0:34.1 | Andy, take your pick. |
| 0:35.9 | I love every version. He is a Grammy Award winning rapper. |
| 0:39.5 | I think he's got eight Grammys at this point. |
| 0:41.4 | He deserves them. |
| 0:42.3 | Singer, songwriter, and record producer, his albums in his beach theme, Venice, Malibu, Oxnard, Ventura. |
| 0:49.5 | And he has a new movie out in theaters on February 27th called K-pops. And it's him and his real life song. I love it. I love it. He co-wrote it and directed it. He stars in it. And it's just a joyous explosion of family love. Yes. We had, this was a great episode. It was a really good time. So much. I tried to control myself and I didn't do a good |
| 1:12.4 | job as you'll hear. Yeah, he can't do that. Don't ask him to do that. All right, please enjoy Anderson Pack. |
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| 1:27.7 | That's like reading a book with most of the pages torn out. |
| 1:30.5 | Yeah, or paying for a coffee that's one-fifth full. |
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