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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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 was listening to Young Jeezy and Shawty Red, and to me, the trap music they had was something special. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I feel like I'm an okay piano player. To the music world, to people that's in the hip-hop culture, they probably look at me like, 'Zaytoven the greatest piano player in the world.' I'm okay. "

" 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. "

" When me and Gucci sit down, I make tracks real fast, and he can write songs real fast. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "