Thundercat has a new album out this week, Distracted. And the bass maestro known to his mom as Stephen Lee Bruner has been talking to Spin about it, singing on record for the first time and the posthumous appearance Mac Miller makes on one track.
Bruner and Miller were close buddies, and the rapper’s death in 2018 from an accidental overdose hit the bassist hard. She Knows Too Much, on the new album, features a verse from Miller, though it’s not the first time Thundercat has sampled his friend since 2018 – he also turned up on his 2020 album It Is What It Is.
