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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 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. "

Zaytoven

Career

Almost

" In Atlanta, I went to barber school. That's how I met everyone I know in Atlanta, by cutting hair. "

" 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. "

Zaytoven

Money

My Life

" It's been a blessing that I can provide for my family just by doing music. I never thought this would ever be my occupation. "

" When you work with Drake, you don't really work with Drake. You send him the song, he rap on it, then y'all done worked together. So it ain't like me and him sitting in the studio. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Zaytoven

Trap

Music

" To me, my studio is my trap house. That's where I trap out of; that's where I hustle. That's where I make my money. "

" Music is about feeling. "

" 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. "

" There's no record that you done heard me produce that I spent more than ten minutes on. "

Zaytoven

Heard

Done

" When your dad is a preacher and your mom is a choir director and you're in church all the time, as a youngster, you've got to find something to do. That's where my musical background comes from. "

" 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. "

Zaytoven

Look

Music

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" It always surprises me and always makes me proud when I see people that I know I worked with at the house in the basement on TV being superstars. "

" 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. "

" When me and Gucci sit down, I make tracks real fast, and he can write songs real fast. "

" 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. "

Zaytoven

Night

Crazy

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

" '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. "

" I was listening to Young Jeezy and Shawty Red, and to me, the trap music they had was something special. "

Zaytoven

Listening

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. "

Zaytoven

Pretty

Parents

" I can do R&B, pop, gospel... whatever genre of music that's out. "

" For a producer, I've been behind the scenes my whole career. "

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

" 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. "

" '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. "