After signing a four-year, $44 million deal with the Milwaukee Bucks, things started to go down rather than up for Larry Sanders. He dealt with injuries, and suspensions for his marijuana use. Then in February of last year, he walked away from the game completely, leaving $27 million on the table. While many thought it was an insane choice to make, Sanders was at peace with his decision. He had been dealing with anxiety and depression, and wanted to pursue other things in life besides basketball. Music was one of those things, and now something big has come out of his other passion. Sanders was credited for his production work on “Don’t Run,” one of the best songs from PARTYNEXTDOOR’s latest album, P3. The song also features production from Sevn Thomas, who was behind Rihanna’s hit song “Work.”
Here’s Sanders speaking on it with Complex:
How did you connect with PARTYNEXTDOOR?
I moved to L.A. about a year ago, and thought about really getting into music and learned how to produce in FL Studio. I had a couple of producers, including Seven Thomas, around me and we were messing around and there was a track that was, at first, just a sample. They were like, Let me use your laptop and add to it. Eventually the beat came about. Later, Sevn sent the beat over to PARTY. A couple months later, he sends the record back. It was exciting.When did you know you were going to be on the album?
Honestly, probably like a week or two weeks ago. You know, they do a tracklist and they told everyone who made the album, so it eventually got back to my camp.What did you feel when you found out?
I mean, it’s amazing. You know me, I just started getting into making beats like five, six years ago, honestly, while I still was in the NBA. But I never had an artist that really cut a record from something I made. For a major artist like PARTYNEXTDOOR to do that, it was exciting. When I heard he put it on the album that was the icing on the cake.
