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" I play the piano, but I'm not classically trained. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager. "

" 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'. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" The reason I still go play the organ at church every Sunday and dedicate my talents to God first is because I feel like that's the reason why I'm who I am today. "

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

" Most artists value my opinion a lot, and I think that's due to 'Beast Mode.' "

" Gucci is a guy that promoted me to the fullest. It don't matter where we go. "

" Future's the guy, like, where, if I send him some beats while he on the road, and there's a pack of beats that he really like, if there's a new vibe or new wave, he's like, 'Man, keep feeding me more. Feed me more of this every day.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "