one night we were partying and he took me back to his place at like 4 in the morning and started playing
Yeah, the Trent Reznor colab seems like destiny, just like the track on the first Handsome Boy Modeling School album he did with Alec Empire of Atari Teenage Riot: different paths, same mission.
I don't know about El-P's talk about making club bangers better than the Neptunes (if he only tried, haha), but I like his style nonetheless.