The FADER: How long have you known each other?
Cakes Da Killa: We’ve known of each other for a while and seen each other out for a while. But this project definitely got us a lot closer. In the scene, you have a sense of community, but we weren’t really kicking it, kicking it.
DJ Miss Parker: I would see Cakes at the clubs a lot. I saw Cakes the first time I was in New York. Cakes doesn’t remember it. [Cakes Da Killa and DJ Miss Parker laugh] Our friend Ms. Boogie was performing.
How did you decide to make an album together?
DJ Miss Parker: I was at Nowadays and I was talking to Byrell The Great, and I was like showing him some tracks I made. And I was like, “I think I want to hit Cakes up.” I had that idea, went home, and started busting out some tracks. Within like two months, I had five to six tracks, and then I just sent Cakes an email.
Cakes Da Killa: I was in Berlin like, “What? This bitch makes beats?” Everyone’s a producer! Then I started playing one, and I was like, “Oh, this is cute.” And then I played another one, and I was like, “Okay.” I was staying at my friend’s place — he’s a producer — and he came out of his room like, “What are you listening to?” It was a pack of eight beats, and I recorded over all of them. It was really that easy.
DJ Miss Parker: He sent me back pretty much the whole mixtape within like two weeks. I was severely gagged. I just wanted someone with a nasty pen to get on them, and Cakes was the first person I thought of. I knew he would understand the language of the music.