Don’t forget. Pharrell didn’t just appear out of thin air with “Happy,” it took years for the high-selling producer to create the sound we hear now. Before now, he mentions to WSJ’s men’s style issue of their magazine, he felt that he had to feel like Jay Z or Puff Daddy — two artists that held the top of the charts at the time. However, in his interview, Williams mentioned that that feeling alone is how he came into his own artist. More after the jump.
According to REVOLT, Pharrell’s keen knack for music was a process of self-growth through experience.
“I think when I put out my first solo album, the music was just eclipsed by all the braggadocio. That was me feeling like I had to be like Jay or Puff. I didn’t realize that that was their story—the story of the struggle to will your way out of where you’re from, to cash in on that, first for yourself, then for other people. But I didn’t see that. All I saw was the planes, the cars, the girls—the ornaments but not the tree they were hanging on. I was making music with and for Jay-Z and Puff, but I was a weirdo in that world.”
