At Home With Zedd in His Latte-Making Lab: ‘This Is Real for Coffee Nerds’

We’ve long known that Zedd is a producer famous for technical precision, and now we know that he brings this same level of commitment to his hobby — making lattes.

The artist recently invited Billboard to his Los Angeles home to show us his high-level latte-making process, which involves choosing the right bean from dozens of options, expertly weighing, grinding, brewing, frothing and more. He even made a spreadsheet to rank and organize the many bean varieties he’s collected from around the world.

“I started loving coffee maybe three years ago,” the artist says, “and the main reason is that I love the coziness and the warmth and the ritual. And the other thing I read that it makes you less hungry, and I’m always hungry … That’s what started it. And as with many things in my life, if I like something, I need to know everything about it, so that’s how we got to this obnoxious amount of equipment and beans.”

Let the Grammy-winning artist guide you through his process in the video above.

Elsewhere in the interview, Zedd speaks about his massive Coachella 2025 performance, which featured a flurry of special guests and drew a enormous crowd to the Outdoor Stage, and followed a flurry of preparation.

“The show was so good because I have an amazing team working on it, and it’s not just me,” he says. “If there’s one person on the team who has to stay levelheaded and cool throughout the process of chaos, it has to be me, because I’m obviously working on the music and there having to perform it, but I also have to make sure that everybody else does the best they can do. Chaos is part of my job, but freaking out is not.”

He also spoke to the 10-year anniversary of his era-defining album True Colors, his 2024 follow-up LP Telos and a potential collaboration with the ladies of BLACKPINK, saying such a project is “very much” on his radar.

“I still would love to collaborate with BLACKPINK,” he says. “I don’t have anything specific right now, but I do have a song that I made that I think would be incredible with BLACKPINK.”