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

" 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. "

" When you take your music around to your people in the city or your label, and don't nobody like it, but you really like it, and you like, 'Dang, these folks don't hear what I hear.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I like to introduce people to each other, especially in the hip-hop community. "

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

" 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. "

" Trap is being added to everything. It seems like every genre wants that bit of trap to what they're doing. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I almost never pitch myself. Me being an independent producer, never having a manager and never being signed, I pretty much just did my own thing: go out and search for the new talent, and when the new talent blows up, it just kinda brings everyone else to me. "

" 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 I was a youngster, I might have been about 17 or 18 when I first started making beats. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" '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 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. "

" The music business, a lot of times, has a big finesse mentality to it. "

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

" When I think of trap, I think of something that is unrehearsed. It's something that's edgy, not too well put together. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "