Trivia / BROCKHAMPTON

• Creator Backlash:
  • Kevin denounced the band's debut single, "Bet I", as its hedonistic message of sex and drugs no longer resonated with him.
  • Downplayed. Kevin retrospectively came to disown the line "I told my mama I was gay, why the fuck she ain't listen?" from his verse on "JUNKY", since he reportedly got on better speaking terms with his mother and grew to dislike the prospect of thousands of people rapping that line.
  • In an interview with The Guardian before the release of ROADRUNNER, Kevin went on record distancing himself from the "boy band" label that the group stuck to so passionately during their mainstream rise.
    What is a boyband without hits though? Abstract ponders this before dropping a bombshell. "I think this is the first album where I'm really tired of this boyband thing," he says, pushing his hand over his hair. "I don't want us to be a boyband." Why? "I feel like what we were trying to do we already did, with redefining [the term]. I just want to make music and let people call it whatever they want at this point. I don't want to push this one thing." So what are they now? "A community. Friends. Homies."
  • Following the group's $15 million record deal with RCA Records, Kevin made several statements indicating second thoughts towards the deal and the music he was making as part of it. After the release of his third album Arizona Baby, he released a voice memo in which he stated that he felt he was "writing music and songs and albums from Hell" due to creating out of obligation instead of joy, which to him resulted in "messy albums" containing thoughts that were "unfinished" and "unpolished". He further compared his situation to the public Artist Disillusionment that Lauryn Hill underwent following the release of her debut album. He briefly brings up the topic again in "Gold Teeth", a track on The Family, but still speaks highly about the music the band made together directly beforehand.
    Shit we made together? Godly.
    Did we sign for too many motherfucking albuuuuuuuuums?
    Probably.
• Creator Breakdown:
  • The Ameer situation affected the group immensely, resulting in the shelving of certain works already completed (such as PUPPY) and the subsequent albums iridescence and GINGER being much moodier.
  • ROADRUNNER was a considerably introspective and serious album for numerous members, but mainly JOBA, as his father died by suicide during the process of the album's production. He speaks candidly and extensively about his feelings in the wake of the event on "THE LIGHT" and "THE LIGHT PT. II".
• Fan Community Nickname: "Dumbasses" was a semi-official one that gained traction during the SATURATION era.
• Schedule Slip: Famously inverted with the SATURATION trilogy, with the band's output going to the extent of releasing singles from III before II even came out. Their rate of release proved to be completely overwhelming — or, in other words, saturating.
• Throw It In!: Dom's verse on "DEARLY DEPARTED" is a two-fold example, both for the song and its music video.
  • Him ending his verse by thrashing his microphone and storming out of the room was genuinely impromptu, especially given the subject matter of his verse (his message to Ameer), with Romil even confirming that Dom broke his headphones in the process and had to replace them.
  • This extended to the music video, where the similarly spontaneous decision was made for him to repeatedly hit the camera during his verse, with it reportedly hitting cameraman Ashlan Gray in the face at one point.
• What Could Have Been: "FOLLOW" was originally released as the first single of SATURATION III, but was never included on the album.
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: As confirmed by Dom himself, he was only present for 6 of the days that iridescence was produced due to a family emergency; this resulted in several verses of his that were written and performed in the span of minutes, to the point that his verse on "VIVID" was written and recorded immediately before he left for the airport.

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