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" Al Nuke is almost like a real brother to me. Our chemistry is crazy because we're like night and day, but we blend so well. "
Me
Night
Crazy
" A lot of people want to blow up as a producer, but what helps you blow up as a producer is an artist that matches well with your music. When that artist gets popular and blowing up, and people start knowing them, that's when they start knowing you. "
Want
Start
You
" Anything that me and Gucci do is never thought out or planned real deeply. We always just go off of what we feeling. It's sporadic. "
Thought
Always
Go
" Atlanta can do crunk music, it can do snap music, it can do swag music. Atlanta has it all. "
Atlanta
Music
Snap
" 'Birds of a Feather' is on Netflix, and it did big for me. For me, it was a trial and error thing. I never thought about being an actor. I just felt like, in the music industry now, anything you said can go. So now it's a part of what I do. I make movies now. "
Birds
Music
Thought
" For a producer, I've been behind the scenes my whole career. "
Been
Behind
Career
" Future is a real workaholic, so he's the type of guy that's gonna do more than enough songs to make sure you got everything you need. "
Future
More
Need
" Future's the guy, like, where, if I send him some beats while he on the road, and there's a pack of beats that he really like, if there's a new vibe or new wave, he's like, 'Man, keep feeding me more. Feed me more of this every day.' "
Man
Future
Every Day
" Gucci is a guy that promoted me to the fullest. It don't matter where we go. "
Gucci
Me
Where
" Guys like Future and me, we help create and shape the sound of music - not just Atlanta music, but music all over. If you really pay attention to the music being made, a lot of that is very heavily influenced by the stuff that we created. I listen to so many songs that's like, 'Damn, this sounds like my music!' "
You
Me
Help
" I almost never pitch myself. Me being an independent producer, never having a manager and never being signed, I pretty much just did my own thing: go out and search for the new talent, and when the new talent blows up, it just kinda brings everyone else to me. "
Myself
Talent
Search
" I approached my career like a rapper. I would go to every open mic, every studio session, bringing my beats. I would almost do exactly what a rapper would do to get on. "
Go
Career
Almost
" I can do R&B, pop, gospel... whatever genre of music that's out. "
Gospel
I Can
Music
" I can show these folks I can do more than just the 'trap.' But what I realized is the trap is what they really recognize me for - that's what they want to hear. "
Hear
More
Me
" I feel like every time I make a beat, and the Migos rap on it, it's gonna be fire. "
Rap
Time
Like
" I feel like I'm an okay piano player. To the music world, to people that's in the hip-hop culture, they probably look at me like, 'Zaytoven the greatest piano player in the world.' I'm okay. "
Look
Me
Music
" If I'm spending more than 15 minutes on a beat, I'm not feeling it. "
Feeling
More
Than
" If you know Gucci Mane, controversy is always surrounding Gucci. "
Know
Controversy
Always
" If you listen to my early music, I didn't know how to mix. I barely knew how to record for real, and I didn't care. "
Early
Care
You
" I have a church background. I've been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in church. "
Life
Piano
Playing
" I know it sounds funny coming from me, 'cause I produced it, but that's one of my favorite bodies of work. That's what 'Beast Mode' was when it came out and still is. "
Beast
Coming
Funny
" I like to introduce people to each other, especially in the hip-hop community. "
Like
Hip-Hop
Community
" I like V-Nasty a lot, and I know anytime I like an artist and the majority of people really don't like her, I know it's something special. That's the same way I felt about Gucci. "
Gucci
People
Know
" I listen to a lot of music... but there still hasn't been a project yet that touches me like 'Beast Mode' has. "
Listen
Project
Music
" I'm a church musician. I play gospel music; that's what I do. I never had a chance to produce gospel music, and I did a full album with Lecrae that's the number one Christian album. It's super-big for me. "
Music
Chance
Christian
" I'm always up for the challenge of doing more and doing different things. I love being inspired like a new producer all over again. "
Doing
Always
New
" I'm content with what I've got from the industry, even though sometimes it seems like I might not get the proper credit. "
Content
Credit
Got
" I'm the type of guy, I make a lot of different beats, but sometimes I might stick to a sound for a little while. "
Different
Guy
Stick
" I'm the type of guy where, if I see, like, 20 songs, I don't even wanna listen to one of 'em 'cause it's too much. "
Too Much
Guy
I See
" In Atlanta, I went to barber school. That's how I met everyone I know in Atlanta, by cutting hair. "
Everyone
Atlanta
Hair
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