The livestream began on July 28 in Mexico City and ran as a three-day studio session, not a two-day broadcast. YouTube described it as a collaborative mixtape the artists were finishing in real time while viewers watched and commented.
The project has since been identified as '9 months & 50 hours', a title reflecting a collaboration developed over a much longer period than the livestream itself. Rather than presenting a polished making-of after the fact, the artists let the unfinished decisions stay visible: arrangement changes, new ideas, the slow work of deciding when something is actually done.
The livestream ran for three days
The session was built around completing the mixtape, with live comments becoming part of the feedback loop while they worked. That makes the broadcast less like a normal release campaign and more like an open studio: the audience saw the part of the process that's usually hidden between a teaser and a finished master.
The mixtape started long before the cameras turned on
The Mexico City session was the final stage of a collaboration that had already been developing over time. A separate film, 'under the fabric', documented an earlier Mexico City studio session connected to the project.
By the time the three-day stream began, the artists weren't starting from zero. They were bringing years of shared ideas into one room and trying to close the gap between work in progress and a finished body of music.
The project now has a name
The name fits the unusual timeline: a long collaboration compressed into a public final push where the last decisions happened with thousands of people watching. The most interesting part isn't simply that the studio was livestreamed. It's that the livestream became part of the record's story, documenting the moment the project stopped being private and became something listeners could follow in real time.
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