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" For a producer, I've been behind the scenes my whole career. "
Zaytoven
Been
Behind
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" In Atlanta, I went to barber school. That's how I met everyone I know in Atlanta, by cutting hair. "
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" 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. "
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" When I work with Future, it's almost like a work of art. "
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" Trap is being added to everything. It seems like every genre wants that bit of trap to what they're doing. "
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" I listen to a lot of music... but there still hasn't been a project yet that touches me like 'Beast Mode' has. "
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" Most artists value my opinion a lot, and I think that's due to 'Beast Mode.' "
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" Trap music, to me, is hustling music. "
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" 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!' "
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" I think that the sound that the world knows as trap music is the sound that Gucci and I created. "
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" 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. "
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You
" The music business, a lot of times, has a big finesse mentality to it. "
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" Music is about feeling. "
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" When Zaytoven and Future are working together, then Future's not working on no other tracks, and Zaytoven's not making no beats for nobody but Future. "
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Working Together
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" I've been doing two things my whole life: I've been cuttin' hair, and I've been playing the organ at church. Those two things are what I looked at as my life: this is how I'm gonna make my money, this is how I'm gonna make my living... It helped me to be stable in what I do. "
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Me
My Life
" 'So Icy' is always going to be one of my favorites because this is a song that blew my mind. I was just making beats for the fun of it. I went to the club and heard the song being played, so I asked the DJ to stop playing the song, and the whole club started rapping word for word. "
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Stop
Song
Mind
" 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. "
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" When people wanna come buy beats or wanna record a song, I'm trappin'. "
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People
Come
" 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. "
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Almost
" When I was cutting hair, I felt like that was my trap. I started selling haircuts. I started selling beats; that's me trapping. So trap music is like hustling music to me. "
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" When I think of trap, I think of something that is unrehearsed. It's something that's edgy, not too well put together. "
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" Gucci is a guy that promoted me to the fullest. It don't matter where we go. "
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" We did 'Bricks' and 'Ridiculous' all in one day. Gucci came here, like, 8 in the morning - we were done 4 the morning the next day. "
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" I started producing in California, and they called it mob music. When I moved to Atlanta, the sound was different. People in Atlanta didn't like to rap over West Coast beats. So I had to make adjustments to what was going on in the South. "
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" I started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager. "
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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'm the type of guy, I make a lot of different beats, but sometimes I might stick to a sound for a little while. "
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" 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. "
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Someone
Sound
" I've been doing this since 'So Icy' back in 2005. "
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