FUSE TV - Kendrick Lamar Partly Inspired David Bowie's 'Blackstar' Album

Rolling Stone has a big new piece delving into David Bowie's forthcoming 25th album, Blackstar, and we learned some damned tantalizing stuff. Producer Tony Visconti—whose Bowie credits stretch as far back as 1969's Space Oddity and include Young Americans, Low and 2013's The Next Day, Sir Stardust's first album after a decade away—dropped the following tease:

"We were listening to a lot of Kendrick Lamar. We wound up with nothing like that, but we loved the fact Kendrick was so open-minded and he didn't do a straight-up hip-hop record. He threw everything on there, and that's exactly what we wanted to do. The goal, in many, many ways, was to avoid rock & roll."

Based on the first bit we've heard (and seen, in short film form), they nailed it. The surreal, 10-minute title track is everything except standard rock music.