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" Atlanta can do crunk music, it can do snap music, it can do swag music. Atlanta has it all. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I feel like every time I make a beat, and the Migos rap on it, it's gonna be fire. "

" If I'm spending more than 15 minutes on a beat, I'm not feeling it. "

" You listen to something like 'Beast Mode,' and it's almost like looking at a pretty painting. "

" 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. "

" When I think about 'Beast Mode,' that's what I think about. I don't think about just a hard project; they just created some art together. "

" 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. "

" Trap is being added to everything. It seems like every genre wants that bit of trap to what they're doing. "

" I was a military brat. My dad was in the military, so I was born in Germany. I moved around a lot; I was in church a lot. "

" If you know Gucci Mane, controversy is always surrounding Gucci. "

" Trap music, to me, is hustling music. "

" When my dad retired, he moved to Georgia, but I stayed in California. I was in San Francisco: that's where I first went from being a musician to making beats and producing. I was 18, 19. It started going pretty good for me out there in California, so I stayed in SF while my parents moved to Georgia. "

" 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. "

" When people wanna come buy beats or wanna record a song, I'm trappin'. "

" When I work with Future, it's almost like a work of art. "

" 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!' "

" I'm content with what I've got from the industry, even though sometimes it seems like I might not get the proper credit. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Now, I made the most money I ever made in my life with 'Papers' - I think my first check was like $101,000, my folks couldn't even believe. At this time, this is like 2010, I'm still in the barbershop cutting hair, still being the regular Zaytoven because I felt like after 'Papers,' it wasn't going to get any bigger than that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I use a lot of piano riffs in my production, and someone who I was working with said that I played so good that it sound like Beethoven. "

" When I was in high school, the girls used to tell me I looked like Usher, so to be doing a song with Usher was mind-blowing. "

" 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. "

" I listen to a lot of music... but there still hasn't been a project yet that touches me like 'Beast Mode' has. "

" 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. "

" You can always know, when it comes to a Gucci Mane or Migos project, there is no such thing of them putting out a project without me being a part of it. These are guys that I'm really close with, and we built a sound together, and we got a certain chemistry. "

" My formula is not thinking about what I'm doing; it's about still having fun and making music. I don't go into the studio with a thought pattern or certain goals in mind - sometimes I'll start with drums, other times I'll start with the piano - but it's all done spontaneously, so nothing is premeditated, and nothing takes a long time. "