Rich Brian Talks Six Year Break, Pharrell, Asian Representation, and New Album 'WHERE IS MY HEAD?'

Zach Sang Show

Sangasong, LLC

Tv & Film, Music

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

You might know him from the 2016 viral sensation ‘Dat $tick,’ but Rich Brian is understandably keen to leave that infamy behind. The Indonesian rapper’s been out of the spotlight for six years so we find out what went down (it’s relationship related), his epic new record WHERE IS MY HEAD?, and the meticulous world-building that comes along with it. We also discuss his early years in Indonesia as part of a family Christian rock group, learning English (and pretty much everything) from YouTube, his collabs and run-ins with everyone from Ski Mask The Slump God to Pharrell Williams, Andre 3000 to Thundercat to Tyler, the Creator, and bbno$. He also shows us how fast he can complete a Rubik's Cube. It’s pretty impressive.

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0:00.0	Let's say hello to you, beautiful human.
0:07.9	I'm Zach. That is Dan.
0:08.6	We welcome to the studio.
0:09.3	For the first time ever, a human being who is an Indonesian rapper, prolific artist.
0:15.1	Really, your first single dad stick back in 2016, really changed your life forever.
0:19.7	But you're back with a brand new album.
0:21.1	First time in five years? Six years. Six years. Sorry. No, it's all good. Sorry. Welcome to the studio for the first time ever, the one and only Rich Brian, everybody. Thank you for having me. Thank you for having me. Are you kidding? Thank you so much. It's amazing to have you here. Thank you. But 2019 was genuinely the last time you released an album.
0:20.1	Yeah.
0:21.0	Yeah.
0:21.5	I put out stuff after that. I put out singles. I put out EPs. Put out this thing, this EP called 1929. But on Spotify, they call in an album. So people get confused. But I don't see that as an album. It only has like seven songs, and it wasn't like conceptual in any way. But, yeah, so this is my third one. So how do you define an album? Because people do you have different, you know, definitions for it? For sure. I think duration is a thing. It was only seven tracks. It was probably like 30 minutes long. And some albums
1:11.6	can be that short, but I think it was just my approach going into it. It was a lot more like,
1:16.6	I'm just having fun. I'm just like making stuff that sounds fun and putting it together as a
1:22.0	compilation more so than anything. So where is part Pardon the pun. Where's my head?
1:28.4	Yeah, so where is your head at when you start making this thing
1:31.0	or actually having a desire to make it?
1:33.6	Yeah, it was...
1:34.6	Well, you know, it was...
1:37.9	People asked me why, you know, it took me so long
1:41.4	or why it took so long away from making albums.
1:46.3	I think it's never intentional.
1:53.8	It's never like the ideal situation for an artist to take a six year break. And it was just because,
2:02.9	you know, life, life got crazy. It was like, as for a lot of other people in the pandemic, I went through a lot of stuff that was just like kind of forced me to like really mature quickly and just like, um, got
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