Kendrick Lamar was moved by a legendary anime character to work on Hey Now after dropping a succession of diss tracks about enemy Drake.

I asked him, ‘Man, what made you do that?’ And he said, ‘When I heard the beat, I just felt like Goku or something.’” According to the hitmaking producer, Kendrick claimed he had an out of body experience while creating “hey now,

Kendrick Lamar felt like Goku when he first heard the beat for "Hey Now" off his latest album GNX, according to Mustard. In a new conversation with GRAMMY.com, Mustard revealed that Kendrick told him the beats he sends over put him in a whole different mindset when he's rapping.