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

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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!' "

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

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

" When you work with Drake, you don't really work with Drake. You send him the song, he rap on it, then y'all done worked together. So it ain't like me and him sitting in the studio. "

" I've been doing this since 'So Icy' back in 2005. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 think that the sound that the world knows as trap music is the sound that Gucci and I created. "

" 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. "

" 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 I work with Future, it's almost like a work of art. "

" 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. "

" Music is about feeling. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 can do R&B, pop, gospel... whatever genre of music that's out. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Future is a real workaholic, so he's the type of guy that's gonna do more than enough songs to make sure you got everything you need. "

" Atlanta can do crunk music, it can do snap music, it can do swag music. Atlanta has it all. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "