Anderson .Paak fuses soul, funk, and hip-hop with rare madcap facility. The singer, rapper, drummer, songwriter, and producer was already trending upward when he was showcased more than any other vocalist on Dr. Dre's chart-topping Compton. He had releases under the descriptive alias Breezy Lovejoy, plus Venice (2014), the first in a series of prismatic albums with hybrids of contemporary soul, funk, hip-hop, and left-field pop underpinning fantastical escapades and personal reflections related with a cutting sense of humor. The early promise was fulfilled with Malibu (2016), ...