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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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" Gucci is a guy that promoted me to the fullest. It don't matter where we go. "
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" I can do R&B, pop, gospel... whatever genre of music that's out. "
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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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" 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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" When I actually first moved to Atlanta, I was cutting hair. I was making beats and making music out in the Bay Area. But I came here to make - you know, I had to get my barber license, so I was cutting hair. "
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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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" 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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" I think that the sound that the world knows as trap music is the sound that Gucci and I created. "
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" 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. "
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" You listen to something like 'Beast Mode,' and it's almost like looking at a pretty painting. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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 always up for the challenge of doing more and doing different things. I love being inspired like a new producer all over again. "
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" Just the instrumentation of the whole 'Beast Mode' made people open up and respect me in a whole other way. With Gucci, I don't use as many instruments. I don't play the piano as much because that's not really the style of music that me and Gucci have built. "
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" I tell people that it's one thing to have the gift and the talent and work hard but another thing to have the favor of God in making it all work, and I think all those are factors. "
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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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" There's no record that you done heard me produce that I spent more than ten minutes on. "
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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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" In Atlanta, I went to barber school. That's how I met everyone I know in Atlanta, by cutting hair. "
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" When people wanna come buy beats or wanna record a song, I'm trappin'. "
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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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" 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. "
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