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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm content with what I've got from the industry, even though sometimes it seems like I might not get the proper credit. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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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" I have a church background. I've been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in church. "

" What's so crazy is I always looked at Jay Z and guys on the caliber of Jay Z like they just the big dogs. I didn't think they listen to my music or even know who I am. "

" 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. "

" If I'm spending more than 15 minutes on a beat, I'm not feeling it. "

" 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. "

" 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'm the type of guy, I make a lot of different beats, but sometimes I might stick to a sound for a little while. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "