Justin Timberlake compuso «Motherlover», ya a la venta

What happened behind the scenes when working with Justin Timberlake that would surprise people?
Andy: Justin would just beat the shit out of us all the time. That’s a funny anecdote. He’d be like, «Why are you hitting yourself, nerd?» And we’d be like, «Give it a rest, jerk». Stuff like that.
Akiva: He’s a bully. Just a lot of sucker punches to the gut.

Has there ever been an artist that’s come to you with an idea and you used it, or is it generally the three of you who mastermind the sketches?
Akiva: They don’t come to us necessarily with an idea but they’ll come to us wanting to collaborate. Like we met Akon at the Grammys on the red carpet. He was like, «Hey guys!» which was a thrill for us that he knew who we were. So he didn’t come with the idea, but he was like, «I’m game for the future». Then it was six months later and we were in the studio recording, being like, «How can we get Akon on one of these songs?»
Jorma: And then during the process, we were like, «This sounds like an Akon record». It was the same thing with T-Pain. It wasn’t his idea, but we knew we should kinda make [the song] for him.
Akiva: Besides that, we write everything and just hand it over and be like, «You do this part». But with «Motherlover», we were already friends with Justin Timberlake so he came in from the ground up and came up with the ideas for a lot of the jokes and really wrote it. Then with rappers like E-40 and Snoop we’d give them bullet points of joke ideas and they’d write their own stuff. Like we can’t write a Snoop verse for Snoop.

You’ve worked with Justin Timberlake before with «Dick in a Box». Do you just call him up when you want to work with him on something?
We’re friends. He calls all the time and wants to hang out. Like every day. We’re all like, ‘Find something else to do’. I was in LA recently and went to see Prince. Put that in your friendship pipe!