Romil: We would make a bunch of songs during the week, and then we would pick one and be like, "Here's a video for it." And Kevin, HK, Ashlan, all the visual guys would get together and plot out the video. We'd shoot it over the weekend, HK and Kevin would edit it over the weekend, and then it'd be out. And then repeat the process the next week. It just became second nature. Everyone knew what each day was set up for.

Kevin: My issue with what was happening with Brockhampton prior to Saturation was: we'd make something that was really cool and we'd be off it right after we did it. So with Saturation, as soon as we caught something, I wanted to just keep milking it until it was dead.

Dom: While we're making Saturation, Saturation 2, and Saturation 3, life is literally changing. We did our first sold-out headline show. And then every show was like that for a very long time, which was crazy.

Romil: Saturation came out, and people loved it and we got a fan base. And it was like, "Oh, fuck, there's like real expectations. We can't fuck the next one up." Sometimes it got to a point where I was almost apprehensive or anxious to work on something because I wasn't sure of myself for some reason. But that's also the beauty of having all these guys: everyone uplifts each other.

Satisfaction: How a $15 Million RCA Deal Changed Things (April, 2018)

The starving artist days accelerated Brockhampton’s progress, both musically and communally, and helped them create a mythology. But suffice to say it was a relief when, in the spring of 2018, labels came calling.

Kevin: A lot of people`were interested, and RCA just seemed like the label that cared the most. They showed up to every show, they seemed to really care about the music, and us, like as a brotherhood. It just felt right.

Joba: I was obviously excited, because that's the dream in a weird way—coming from Texas and moving to this city where something like that could happen. Being in a situation where that's in front of you and you're looking at it and you seal the deal, it's a moment where you realize, "Okay, maybe this is me taking a step into professionalism." And that's an odd adjustment. It came with a lot of nerves, excitement.

Romil: It felt like the right time to take that step based on where we were in our careers at that moment. We just wanted to partner with somebody who had the resources to get us where we wanted to get, but also understood us as a brotherhood and a band and a company.

Joba: We all went out to dinner to sign. But it didn't necessarily feel like a celebration.

Romil: It was just a regular day for us. We worked on music that day, made a couple songs. And then we signed our contract and came back and worked on more music. People think you sign a record deal and that's like the end game, that's the Super Bowl. But we didn't really view it as that. We viewed it as the next step to take to keep going where we wanted to go.

Dom: The tight part about it is [RCA] paid us and got the fuck out the way. They really have not interfered with the creative.

Kevin: The deal made everyone more comfortable, which does affect the way you make music. The urgency we had earlier is now down a little bit. The urgency has to come when people are fully hungry. And that comes at random times once you have money and shit.