Terrace Martin Reveals Cover Art and Tracklist for ‘Velvet Portraits’

Los Angeles's Terrace Martin has supplied plenty of jams in recent years, including numerous credits on Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly, and will be dropping off his own album Velvet Portraits on April 1. Before then, though, Martin shares the album artwork and tracklist, which bares a heavy Cali influence throughout with titles such as "Valdez off Crenshaw" and "Oakland."

In a recent interview with Complex, Martin said of Lamar's untitled unmastered. "The people that felt when we did [The Colbert Show], that was around that night and that moment. Now it’s another moment. You have as many moments as you wanna have. Then was the moment for then, and now is the moment for now." Martin had a hand in track three of the project, calling it a collection of, "outakes, different motifs and uncompleted thoughts. Demos."

He recalls hearing a song on the album that he at first thought was an old bossa nova record but then heard Kendrick rapping overtop. "That’s the record when I first thought, 'Whoa, we might be going to some different dimensions.' I heard it that one day, and I just heard it again on my Spotify 11 minutes ago," he said.

Peep the Velvet Portraits tracklist below and preorder the album now on iTunes.

1. “Velvet Portraits”
2. “Valdez off Crenshaw”
3. “Push”
4. “With You”
5. “Curly Martin”
6. “Never Enough”
7. “Turkey Taco”
8. “Patiently Waiting” (feat. Uncle Chuck & The Emotions)
9. “Tribe Called West”
10. “Oakland”
11. “Bromali
12. “Think of You”
13. “Reverse”
14. “Mortal Man”

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