For example, the first almost full year I started working on it, I wasn’t even really making beats. I was just going to studios. All I was doing was collecting sounds. I was playing drums. I’m playing drums all over the album, just chopped up and sampled. Playing a lot of instruments. The majority of the sounds are sounds that I make, and try to make them sound like old things that I found. It’s all me starting from scratch mostly now, rather than finding it.

You worked with Vince Staples on his album, and he has now worked on yours. What was that process like?

All the stuff from his album came about from working on mine. We actually had spoken on Twitter years ago–2012 maybe, just saying what’s up. Vince had reached out like, “I’m a big fan of what you’re doing.” That was a few years ago. And then, I had this beat sitting around and I was trying to figure out who to get on it. And I was thinking of guys that I like, and I reached out to Vince, and he wrote it on his own. Then we met up in the studio and recorded it and stuff.

Just from doing those sessions, that was at the time when he was finishing his album, and he was like, “Yo, I need some beats for my album.” So I was like, “We’re in the studio working on this song,” and I played him four beats or something.

So it was kind of cool how it just intersects. All of that came about from working on mine, and not really intentionally thinking about working on Vince’s album or something.

So your track “All Nite” was done before his album?

Yeah, that was done. It’s been written for a while. Summertime ’06 stuff, that all happened around this time last year. Gave him those beats about May last year.

That’s really fast turnaround for him! Summertime '06 was released last June.

Yeah, he wrote them real fast. And that was some of the last stuff that was going on the album. Because they were like, “We need a few more things,” and I was like, “Alright.” I gave four. I think they ended up using three of the four I left them with that day.

Which vocalists did you work most closely with on the beats for this album?