“Odd Future were really spontaneous and really calculated,” Abstract says. “They did what they wanted. That’s why this works, because we do what we want to do and people eventually caught up to that and thought it was tight. We’re not going to do what they want us to do, we’re going to do what we want us to do. That’s why we’re in this position.”

Brockhampton operate with that same sort of calculated spontaneity, earned through thousands upon thousands of hours spent in each other’s company. Most of the group has lived together for years, first in San Marcos, Texas, then in south-central L.A., and now in North Hollywood. SATURATION was born one night at the Factory out of a group conversation concerning their lack of direction. Abstract had the idea to release a poster that night simply featuring the words Brockhampton, SATURATION, and a release date the following month. With a self-imposed deadline, they forced themselves into action.

I ask how a group with 14 different and equally valued perspectives works so well together, and rapper Dom McLennon explains: “At its core, from the very, very beginning, we took a collective risk. And I think in that collective risk we developed collective trust. And that collective trust gives you a blind faith, in the sense of, ‘Oh, everything we want to happen will happen. Like, we’ll make an album in a month, no problem.”