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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. "
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" I have a church background. I've been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in church. "
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" 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. "
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" The most memorable part of filming 'Finesse,' I'd have to say, was the kissing scene. It was just so odd for me. "
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" I'm content with what I've got from the industry, even though sometimes it seems like I might not get the proper credit. "
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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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" For a producer, I've been behind the scenes my whole career. "
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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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" '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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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. "
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" I can do R&B, pop, gospel... whatever genre of music that's out. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Trap music, to me, is hustling music. "
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" I was listening to Young Jeezy and Shawty Red, and to me, the trap music they had was something special. "
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" 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. "
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" When people wanna come buy beats or wanna record a song, I'm trappin'. "
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" 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. "
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" There's no record that you done heard me produce that I spent more than ten minutes on. "
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" When I approached my own movies, I went in it real innocent. I didn't pay attention to nobody else's score. I was just going to do it with how I feel it should sound. To me, that's how you create new things. "
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" '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. "
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" Music is about feeling. "
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" When me and Gucci sit down, I make tracks real fast, and he can write songs real fast. "
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" 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. "
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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'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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