So I would be creating with him, I would bring creations to other people, and then bring the music to him. And to balance that on top of working with Cudi-talk me through the process. They were the new addition to your usual inner circle of legends like Plain Pat and Mike Dean. You’ve worked with Daytrip before, but this was a new level. You pulled off a crazy balancing act in the making of Man On The Moon III. I’m not surprised to hear you can compartmentalize like that. There's so much things you can put on that can inspire. But as far as visually stimulating, I don't know if sports is the most visually stimulating thing to have on in the studio. I can work and if something crazy happens, I'm going to react and get right back to what I'm doing. So normally it's movies, cartoons, sound off. He just doesn't find any creativity from that. I have to sneak out of the studio, pull out my iPhone and stream it. No sports, which kills me, especially around playoff time in basketball. He'll say quotes from movies I've never seen and it will just sound funny as hell. We have our sessions where we need to hunker down and focus, but for the most part, it's jokes. When it's just us and we're just chilling and we've gotten so accustomed to creating together that it's extremely chill in the studio for the most part. When are you the most productive when it comes to the two of you? Just because that's the type of shit he's into.
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If I say something, if I quote something from a movie right now, I know I can get him going, laughing. He has constant references and ideas, and he's such a movie buff. It’s a unique form of creativity, hearing something totally separate click into place in a new context.Ĭudi is the goat at that. You know what I'm saying? He just pulled that out of the air. He's always quoting clips from movies, while we were in the studio, Cudi literally thought about that moment in the clip and the fact that his name is Scott. Cudi's a huge fan, and it was completely his idea. Scott Pilgrim vs the World is a very classic movie. It started with photoshopping him into album covers and spiraled from there. But we felt a little vindicated when he popped up on “She Knows This.” How did you land on that quote, “What if I want the satisfaction?” You won’t know or care, but Pigeons & Planes has an unhealthy fascination with Michael Cera. One of those quotes came from Michael Cera’s Scott Pilgrim. Cudi is, by Dot’s estimation, a walking movie encyclopedia, able to pull quotes or pick up a scene at random. That could include instrumentation, vocals, and maybe a movie reference or two. When their additions came through, Dot would bring the song back to Cudi for finishing touches. So Dot began a painstaking process of refinement, creating tracks with Daytrip that would then be passed along to one of Dot’s inner circle (another camp of production icons). After an early session with ascending production duo Take a Daytrip, Cudi and Dot had three tracks from which to build, including the first and last song. Granted, making the album was a little more complicated than simply quarantining together. And they did most of it amidst a pandemic. Nearly 15 years and seven albums since “Day ‘N Nite,” last month’s release of Man On The Moon III marked their most evolved and sonically sophisticated collaboration yet. But where other partnerships have been waylaid by ego, fame, and music industry intrigues, Dot and Cudi have pressed on. Since 2006, the two friends and musicians have been turning to each other for inspiration, slowly becoming one of music history’s legendary production duos in the process. Dot Da Genius and Kid Cudi have entered rareified air.