FECKIN WEIRDO was the first album where all of the songs were meant to be together in that order. for like maybe four years. But he was already involved with so much stuff, just because he’s such a chill person and so good at every instrument. Everyone is like, “Yeah, let’s fucking work with this dude!” I think he just knows what ways to approach things. He has a spidey-sense but for good music and good people. I think he can just tell what people we should work with. In the process of putting out his record, we realized it would make sense to have him on board and have him be a part of it. We were going to go so hard behind it too, and he was like, “Yeah, this seems right.” We try to go based off of things that feel right and things that have historically worked. We try to work with talented people who put all of their energy into their art. He puts all of his energy into his own art and art for other people. I love Sen. Going back to your solo music again, what was the process for making your album FECKIN WEIRDO like after releasing the “Booty Trilogy” albums. What did you know you wanted to do differently with that album and what did you learn in the process of making it? I just wanted to make a cohesive album that made sense all throughout. I think the Booty Trilogy albums—none of them were really albums, they were more like a collec-
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tion of songs. A couple songs worked together, which is why I am hesitant to just call it a hodgepodge. But over all, it was just a bunch of songs I made around the same time. So I was just like, “Okay, I guess I’ll put them on the record.” So FECKIN WEIRDO was the first album where all of the songs were meant to be together in that order. I thought it was definitely the most accessible thing I had done. I was conscious about not going too overboard with new musicality stuff on that record. I thought it was just a simple, rap/pop record, but it was still all just recorded on my Snowball mic and all of those programs I used. How do you find a balance when you’re incorporating so many different styles and reference points in the music you’re making? How do you utilize different genres to make something new, rather than creating an unfocused amalgamation? I just record all of the different sounds that inspire me. I just record all of my ideas. Currently, the way I write most records is, I’ll record every song idea that comes to my head. Day after day I’ll finish different songs and then I’ll start to notice a pattern in a couple of the songs. I’ll be like, “Oh, this song I wrote two weeks ago and the song I wrote yesterday have similar themes and aesthetics.”