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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. "
Zaytoven
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You
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" If I'm spending more than 15 minutes on a beat, I'm not feeling it. "
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" I have a church background. I've been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in church. "
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" Most artists value my opinion a lot, and I think that's due to 'Beast Mode.' "
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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'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. "
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" 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.' "
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" When me and Gucci sit down, I make tracks real fast, and he can write songs real fast. "
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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 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Trap music, to me, is hustling music. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I like to introduce people to each other, especially in the hip-hop community. "
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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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" 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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" I've been doing this since 'So Icy' back in 2005. "
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" I listen to a lot of music... but there still hasn't been a project yet that touches me like 'Beast Mode' has. "
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