When David Biral and Denzel Baptiste from Take a Daytrip first met Kid Cudi, the rapper had a simple instruction for the production duo.

“What you guys did for Sheck Wes with ‘Mo Bamba’? Do that for me,” Biral remembers Cudi telling them. Easy enough. All they had to do was recreate one of their biggest hits in front of their childhood idol. At the time, the production duo was working with Cudi’s go-to producer, Dot da Genius, for tracks they assumed were part of Cudi’s long-teased Entergalactic project. But before long, they found themselves as integral members of Cudi’s creative team, first on “The Scotts” and eventually on Man on the Moon III: The Chosen. In a recent interview with Zane Lowe, Cudi explained, “Daytrip and Dot Da Genius pretty much produced this whole album.”