“André is somebody that's better than you expected, the most highly energetic guy that you can possibly speak to. Which is currently centered on André 3000, who was apparently the occupant of the same green-velvet plush table chair that I’m slouched in now. We’re flanked by Exclusive and Juliano, who comprise his Everything Is Gold (EI$G) collective, and occasionally chime in on our conversation while finishing up beats on a pair of laptops.
I’m at the dinner table in the modern-deco living room, while Cardo swivels his six-foot frame aimlessly in a stool at the kitchen’s L-shaped counter. “He was just sitting right there, in that chair,” Cardo nods.
ScHoolboy Q is in the home stretch of his fifth album, and there may be a legend or two who require his presence, too. On a walk from the backyard to the kitchen after a smoke break, Cardo reflexively reaches for a nearby laptop and tinkers with a beat. I’m clearly interrupting, but these guys rarely stop working. Weed is the only visible form of recreation-pre-rolls and papers are scattered across granite tabletops-but that seems to be more fuel than anything else. When I pull up on Cardo and his producing cohorts Yung Exclusive and Johnny Juliano, they’re hunkered down to work in a mid-city Los Angeles Airbnb near The Grove. “It’s a good problem to forget making a great song.”
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