I played on a bunch of the songs. There are just so many different versions I heard over the years. “Close to U” was something I worked on with Joe Thornalley, who goes by Vegyn. That’s something we worked on this year. I worked on “White Ferrari.” I don’t know how much of my stuff is on all that. I don’t really want to talk about all the different songs right now.

But it’s fair to say you were on a lot of the record. Did you not really hear full songs until the album?

No, I don’t think he wanted to let people have full context. He’s like a collage artist in a way. We were all these bits and pieces that he’d send off to do our thing on. But we’d never see him putting it together.

Is there anything more you can say about the process of working on the album? It sounds like it’s kind of mysterious.

It’s super mysterious! I’ve been recording for a long time and producing records to completion, but working with him, it’s like, a lot of times I’d get on the section of a song that he’d want me to work on, and then I’d do maybe one pass, and then he would have me move on to something else. I never felt like I really got my head around it. That’s what he would end up using. There’s this vision he has that you can’t really see yourself, but I learned to just trust his ear. And if he felt satisfied, then I just learned to be OK with that.

It’s interesting that it’s as mysterious for somebody actually playing on it as it is for the rest of us.

Yeah, it is [laughs]. I watched his subreddit. I feel like all his fans. He’s very mysterious. It’s rad to be part of something that’s so fresh and I almost feel disconnected from it in a way, because I’ve never been a part of something where I was brought in for a couple of hours to try some things and then leave and have no idea—to not remember what I even played on.

Do you know if there’s going to be a wider release of the magazine?

I saw his mom’s Instagram or something. That’s literally—I’m on the same level as all the fans out there, just waiting. I tried to get a magazine. I went to the pop-up shop and there were like 3,000 people in L.A. around the block and I couldn’t even get one.

If he does any touring or anything like that, are you still part of the live band?

Yeah, if he has a band, I’m sure I’ll be asked to be in the band. I don’t know what his plans are but if he wants a keyboard player I’m sure that I’m the dude. Because I’ve been the dude. But who knows.

Any reminiscences about when you were on “Saturday Night Live”?