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Kendalls rap wasSuccessionat its best: utterly embarrassing, but totally hilarious.
1 boy, to rap an ode to his father.
Yo, bitches be catty, but the kings my daddy, he rapped.
Jeremy Strong and Nicholas Britell (a.k.a.
Its actually the official studio version, Britell says.
For the audience, we wanted to verify that its the best listening experience.
We got to this tribute to my father.
Kendall says something like, Kick it MC!
And then Kendall does a rap.
Its quite committed and good.
Hes doing it with conviction, Strong says.
It clicked for me when I saw that.
The beats were Britells from college.
He landed on a remix of a Bach prelude, and he played it for Strong over the phone.
He did the rap for me!
It was, I would say, a small turning point in my life, Strong says, laughing.
Strong didnt want his TV family to hear the rap before they shot it for real.
He practiced in private, and came up with a melody for the chorus.
I ask him how many times he rehearsed and how many times he imagines Kendall would have.
Im definitely in that almost obsessive preparation school of needing to completely break something in, he says.
I actually think Kendall maybe would have done the same.
I think he would have taken it really seriously.
I guess in some way thats something I share with the character: Things dont just come easily.
You have to really work at them.
Logan acts as this sort of kryptonite for me where I am just scrambled by being close to him.
This felt like one of those moments.
This is the Roy family, though, so to sell the rap it needed the appropriate accessories.
The result the scene, the song, the outfit is chaotic bliss.
The show doesnt just live in one emotional or conceptual universe.
It has a seriousness and a gravitas, but also it completely leans into its absurdity at times.
