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" 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. "

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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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 'Birds of a Feather' is on Netflix, and it did big for me. For me, it was a trial and error thing. I never thought about being an actor. I just felt like, in the music industry now, anything you said can go. So now it's a part of what I do. I make movies now. "

" 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 started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager. "

" Al Nuke is almost like a real brother to me. Our chemistry is crazy because we're like night and day, but we blend so well. "

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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. "

" 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!' "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" People looked at me - people still look at me - as 'this is Gucci Mane's producer.' But the music that me and Future put together was so different than what me and Gucci do, it just made people look at the music like, 'Hold on - Zaytoven is the real deal.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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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